Search Results: following the equator a journey around by twain mark clemens

Harper & Brothers, 1899T. hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Cloth cover has chipping, is faded, spine is darkened.

Harper & Brothers, 1899. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Hartford: American Publishing Company , 1897. First edition (Subscription ed. - no priority) . Hardcover. Good. First Edition with signature mark "11" on page 161, single publisher listed and no mention of New York on title page; top edge gilt. Photogravure portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, and numerous full-page and in-text illustrations throughout, by Frank Berkeley Smith, Frederick Dielman, Peter Newell, et al. . This was the last of the subscription books Twain published and his last book to be published by the American Publishing Company. "The subscription book was sold originally by publisher's agents direct to the reader...and could be ordered in extra-bindings, that is the bindings aside from the usual cloth, were in sheep, half morocco, and full morocco. It was assumed that all states of the binding were simultaneous, none having first-edition priority over the other." [Johnson, Bibliography of the Works of Mark Twain, p.153] Leather binding with chipping and edgewear to spine with… Read More

Harper & Brothers, 1899. 2 vol set. Dark green cloth with gilt ltrs on spine. 3 illustrations per book. Deckle side and bottom edges. Gold printers ink on top edges. Corners & head-heel of spine are bumped. Spine has five rubbed gilt bordered boxes. Bookplate pasted on inside front covers. Extra postage for multiple books is included in price.. Authorized Uniform Edition. Hard Cover. G++/No Jacket.

EASTON PRESS. Leather. USED As New.

Hartford, Connecticut: The American Publishing Company, 1898. Early Reprint. Hardcover. Good+. Dan Beard, A. B. Frost, B. W. Clinedinst, Frederick Dielman, Peter Newell, F. M. Seinor, T. J. Fogerty, C. H. Warren, A. G. Reinhart, F. Berkeley Smith, C. Allan Gilbert. 8vo. Pp. 7-712. Frontis. photograph of the author on the deck of a steamship, Illustrated throughout with black & white illustrations, sketches, and photographs. Attractively bound in blue cloth with spine stamped with gilt lettering; front cover features a mounted color illustration of an elephant bordered with gilt flourishes. Loss to lower quarter of illustration; top edge a bit dust-soiled; slight wear to edges of cloth. Withal, a tight, well preserved copy. First published in 1897, and sometimes titled More Tramps Abroad. The frontis. features a caption facsimile of Twain's handwriting: "Be good and you will be lonesome - Mark Twain."If travel books constitute a comfy substitute for the actual effort of travelling, the armchair… Read More

Hartford / New York:: American Publishing Co. / Doubleday & McClure Co.,. Good. 1897. Hardcover. First edition. Thick octavo, bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering and design on the spine, color elephant desing on front board. Moderate shelf wear and aging, soiling to front endpapers, weak at the front hinge, else good or better. ; 712 pages .

Hartford, CN: The American Publishing Company. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1903. First Edition; Later Printing. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 712 pages .

Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis, illustrations, 712p. 23cm. Original blue cloth. 23 cm. Spine lettering somewhat faded. Extremities rubbed (most heavily at base of backstrip). Foxing on tissue guard between frontis and title-page. No signature mark on page 161.

American Publishing Company, Hartford, CT, 1897 1st Ed. 9.25 X 6.25" in blue cloth with pictorial paste-down on front cover. Worn and scuffed. Spine a bit faded. Front hinge cracked. 712pp. Illustrated throughout.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket.

Hartford: American Publishing Co. 1897, 1st Edition. (Pictorial cover) 712pp. Very good. Illus. - plates. Boards and cover picture rubbed, lightly bumped extremities. Light wear to head & tail of bright gilt-printed spine. Hinges somewhat tender. Lacking frontispiece. Childish pencil marks to CONTENTS p.15. Some staining to fore edges. Text relatively clean. 1st ed., 1st issue: BAL 3451; McBride p.194. P.161 bears the signature mark 11. Pseudonym of Samuel Clemens. .

Hartford, CN: The American Publishing Company. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1897. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Slight rubbing to the edges, owner's name on the fep. First state of the first edition. Very clean & tight. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 712 pages .

Hartford: American Publishing Co., 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Good + overall. Twain's travels in Australia, New Zealand and India. Large 8vo. 712pp. B&w frontis portrait, b&w ills in text. With the signature 11 at bottom of page 161 as called for by BAL. Pictorial gilt decorated inlay of elephant on front cover, gold gilt title and decoration at spine. Spine tips slt rubbed, corners slt bumped, new front endpaper.

Hartford: American Publishing Co., 1897. First edition, first issue . Hardcover. Very Good. First issue with the single line imprint and with signature "11" at bottom of page 161. Very good in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt stamping on the front boards and spine and the elephant illustration on the front panel. Wear at the tips and the top of the spine, foxing on the tissue guard for the frontispiece and a short nick on the edge of the frist fourteen pages.

Harford, Connecticut: The American Publishing Co, 1897. First Edition. Thick Octavo. 2nd issue without the 11 on page 61. illustrated. bound in blue cloth, pictorial illustration of an elephant to upper board with decorations in gilt, decorative gilt spine, minor light rubbing to joints and spine ends. A very nice. bright copy.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Front hinge loosening, front free endpaper and title page loose but included, lacks sample spine designs (removed from inside front board), first page of subscription sheets used as a general account ledger (pencil notes). 1897 Hard Cover. A travelogue written by Twain beginning in 1895, when we began a tour of the British Empire to present lectures as a means of paying off the sizable debt associated with a failed investment in a typesetting machine. The narrative includes indictments of racism, imperialism, and missionary zealotry. Several (rather farcical) fictional pieces are interwoven throughout.

Hartford, Connecticut: American Publishing Company, 1903.. 8vo. Navy Cloth with Faux Gilding, 712 pp. Very Good with slight wear to corners & spine. Previous owner's (Frederick J. Hellman) signature inside cover. Illustrations.Provenance: From the collection of the late Lloyd Dinkelspiel Sr (1889-1959) and his wife, Florence Hellman Dinkelspiel (1904-1954) , granddaughter of Isaias Wolf Hellman (1842 –1920), the founder of Wells Fargo Bank.

Hartford, CT: The American Publishing Company, 1897. First Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. The American Publishing Company, Hartford, CT 1897. First Edition. 712 pages. 1st Printing. BAL 3451. Blue cloth, elaborate gold lettering and decorations on spine, intriguing four colors and gold rectangular elephant inset on front board, portrait frontispiece with facsimile signature and tissue guard, title page in green and black with date MDCCCXCVII (1897) and only Hartford imprint. Profusely illustrated. Nice Firm copy ! Light general wear. Page ends lightly browned. Binding cloth not torn or frayed, though rubbed at the usual points of spine ends and board tips. Hinges fine, no binding looseness in textblock. Frontispiece tissue guard foxed, lightly transferred to frontispiece and title. Free pressed tree leaf included! Signature mark (weak) on page 161 under and. Size: 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. Following the Equator (American English title) or… Read More

Hartford, CT: The American Publishing Company, 1897. Book. Very Good ++. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Large Thick Octavo. Large thick 8vo. 712 (2) pp, illus. First Edition, 1897. BAL 3451. Previous owner's ex-libris plate on fr pastedown, prevous owner's signature on 2nd ffep, Light external wear lower spine cloth with well-preserved paper and text block. No markings, binding tight, fr board design bright, gilt spine titles dimmed somewhat from the original, but evenly legible, with closth creased near bottom spine. 6.5" x 9.25". Dark-blue cloth with tipped-in color illustration on front board, and decorative gilt spine with gilt lettering. In Mylar glassine protector..

Hartford/New York: American Publ./Doubleday, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Contents clean and hinges secure for this heavy book; small book label of E. C. Lovell on a front blank. Some loss of gilt to the spine but overall Near Fine. Decorated blue cloth. Illustrated with a frontispiece, plates, and text engravings. BAL 3451. This copy with the preferred single Hartford imprint and the signature "11" at page 161. Mark Twain's account of his tour of the world, following the equator, visiting Hawaii, India, Australia, etc., stopping to give lectures to earn money to salvage himself from bankruptcy.