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Fordham University Press. New in As New dust jacket. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0823227871 . This specific hardback book is in new condition with a hard board cover that has sharp edges and corners and has a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. The dust jacket is in fine condition with barely detectable wear if any. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; "At the end of his long life, Samuel Clemens felt driven to write a truthful account of what he regarded as the flaws in his character and the errors of his ways. His attempt to tell the unvarnished truth about himself is preserved in nearly 250 autobiographical dictations. In order to encourage complete veracity, he decided from the outset that these would be published only posthumously.Nevertheless, Clemens's autobiography is singularly unrevealing. Forrest G. Robinson argues that, by contrast, it is in his… Read More

Holt Rinehart Winston. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 0030818427 . This specific hardback book is in fine condition with a hard board cover that has sharp edges and corners and has a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased . The dust jacket is in very good condition with a bit of cover or edge wear. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; "This book is a detailed and convincing attack on those critics who have long insisted that there can be no such thing as Christian tragedy. The author throws fresh light on the major works of both Shakespeare and Dostoevsky, and shows that both writers derived many of the symbols and motifs that serve as vehicles for their principal insights from a single major source, the Bible, because of its very obviousness." ; 9 X 6 X 1 inches; 272 pages .

McFarland & Company. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1991. Hardcover. 0899506429 . This specific hardback book is in fine condition with very minimal wear and a hard board cover that has sharp edges and corners and a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased with some foxing to the top outside edge of the pages. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; 9.25 X 6.25 X 0.50 inches; 134 pages .

University of Missouri. New in As New dust jacket. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. 0826213774 . This specific hardback book is in new condition with a hard board cover that has sharp edges and corners and has a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. The dust jacket is in fine condition with barely detectable wear if any. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; "The thirteen essays in this collection combine to offer a complex and deeply nuanced picture of Samuel Clemens. With the purpose of straying from the usual notions of Clemens (most notably the Clemens/Twain split that has ruled Twain scholarship for over thirty years), the editors have assembled contributions from a wide range of Twain scholars. As a whole, the collection argues that it is time we approach Clemens not as a shadow behind the literary persona but as a complex and intricate creator of stories, a creator who is deeply… Read More

University Publications of America. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1985. First Edition. Paperback. 089093746x . "This specific softcover book is in fine condition with very minimal wear and a cover that has sharp edges and corners and a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers."; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 465 pages .

2C: Oxford University Press. Fine. 1972. Reprint. Softcover. 0195007239 . This specific softcover book is in fine condition with only the slightest bit of wear to the cover, edges or corners. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. This is a remarkable book and is in fine condition. ; This is reprint by Oxford University Press of this classic piece of biographical literature. ; Galaxy Books Series; 2 x 8 x 5.3 Inches; 842 pages .

Franklin Library. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1981. Hardcover. This specific hardback book is in fine condition with very minimal wear and a hard board cover that has sharp edges and corners and a tight binding although the binding is sun faded. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; "This book is one of the Heirloom Library of the World's Greatest Books. These collector's books are quarter bound editions published by the Franklin Library and have a genuine leather bound spine with traditional cloth covered boards, 22k. gold lettering and stampings on the spine and covers and an attached silk page marker. It is believed there were 50 volumes published in this series." ; 9 X 6.10 X 1.30 inches; 547 pages .

The Franklin Library. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1987. Hardcover. This specific hardback book is in fine condition with very minimal wear and a hard board cover that has sharp edges and corners and a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased but with a non inked embossed seal on the end pages. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; The Franklin Library was one of the largest and most sought-after publishers of fine leather-bound books from 1973 until their permanent closure in 2000. The Franklin Library Pulitzer Prize Series was a limited edition series of the 53 Pulitzer Prizes awarded to Novels from the first in 1918 through 1979. The series was published from 1975 to 1980. Due to their extremely Limited Edition nature, they are highly sought after as collectibles. Some of the Franklin Library Pulitzer Prize Series volumes as well as other winners of Pulitzer Prizes (i.e. Biography,… Read More

Helm Information. New in Fine dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 1873403097 . This specific set of 4 hardback books is in new condition with hard board covers that have sharp edges and corners and tight bindings. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. The slip case is in fine condition with barely detectable wear if any. Due to the size and weight of this set of books, additional postage may be required for priority or international shipments. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; "This is an attractively produced, 4-volume set, all contained in an attractive slip case, which brings together much of the most important biographical and critical material on Mark Twain. It begins with an introduction, a chronology of Twain's life, a list of his writings and a chronological list of criticism included in the set. Vol. 1 : Three Biographical Responses; Vol. 2 : Contemporary Reviews; CreativeWriters'… Read More

University of Missouri Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 0826210724 . This specific hardback book is in fine condition with very minimal wear and a hard board cover that has sharp edges and corners and a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased with some light foxing to the top edge. The dust jacket is in fine condition with only the slightest bit of cover or edge wear. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; "Focusing on the experience of freedom embodied in three Twain texts, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, and No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger, this book encapsulates both Twain's early and late theoretical speculations on the nature of the divided self. From the thoughts and actions of the protagonists in these works, we can trace and follow Twain's fictive map of mind, one that eventually leads to a new vision of… Read More

The Franklin Library. As New with No dust jacket as issued. 1986. Hardcover. This specific hardback book is in like new condition with a hard board cover that has sharp edges and corners and has a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased but with a non inked embossed seal on the end pages. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers; The Franklin Library was one of the largest and most sought-after publishers of fine leather-bound books from 1973 until their permanent closure in 2000. The Franklin Library Pulitzer Prize Series was a limited edition series of the 53 Pulitzer Prizes awarded to Novels from the first in 1918 through 1979. The series was published from 1975 to 1980. Due to their extremely Limited Edition nature, they are highly sought after as collectibles. Some of the Franklin Library Pulitzer Prize Series volumes as well as other winners of Pulitzer Prizes (i.e. Biography, History etc.) not… Read More

Simon and Schuster. As New in Near Fine dust jacket. 1983. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 067144767x . This specific hardback book is in like new condition with a hard board cover that has sharp edges and corners and has a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. This book has the Simon and Schuster stamp on the bottom page edges. The dust jacket is in near fine condition with only a little wear. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; "Anyone who wants to understand Graham Greene the person should read this. The extensive interviewing dates to 1979. Running less than 200 pages, this is a fascinating attempt by "a critic and journalist", who is the daughter of a friend of Greene, to get Greene to open up about who he is and why he is who he is. But as the interviewer constantly reminds us, Greene fights her all the way. He reveals much about himself by adamantly refusing to… Read More

Franklin Library. New with No dust jacket as issued. 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. This specific hardback book is in new condition with a hard board cover that has sharp edges and corners and has a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; Franklin Library first editions were "true" first editions and included the statement "A signed first edition of this book has been privately printed by the Franklin Library Press." Franklin Library would contract the first edition rights with both the author and the mass-market publisher. Thus Franklin Library first editions are more valuable than many other "first editions" that are not, in fact, the first edition of the book printed. The Franklin Library was one of the largest and most sought-after publishers of fine leather-bound books from 1973 until their permanent closure in 2000. Due to… Read More

Oxford University Press. As New. 2001. Second Printing. Paperback. 0195141407 . This specific softcover book is in like new condition with a cover that has sharp edges and corners and a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; "This unique collection captures some of the excitement and diversity of the immensely prolific print culture that formed and framed nineteenth-century American life and thought. Gathering popular stories that tap into a variety of nineteenth-century American self-perceptions, fears, dreams, and longings, this resurrectionist work makes available material that is not readily available today but which was vital to the culture and daily conversations of the period. Popular American Literature of the 19th Century collects examples of a wide range of literature including tracts, plays, poems, gift books, dime novels, school books, and… Read More