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Salad Days

By: Partridge, Bellamy

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company: 1951

Seller ID: 10782

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

Yellow covers with black titles on spine. Very light, general wear and aging with a light odor from storage. Former owner's pictorial bookmark on front pastedown. Square and securely bound. Jacket has some edge, corner and surface wear along with a tear on the upper back left corner. ; B&W Drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 272 pages
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The History of Rome Hanks

By: Pennell, Joseph Stanley

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York City, Editions for the Armed Services, Inc.: 1944

Seller ID: 6819

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Wear to cornrs and edges, paper yelowed, front cover has been creased. ; Oblong 32mo 4" - 5" tall; 479 pages
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Samuel L. Clemens: First Editions and Values

By: Potter, John K.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Chicago, The Black Archer Press: 1932

Seller ID: 15319

Binding: Hardcover

Original blue cloth covers with gilt decoration on front cover and gilt title on spine. Bery light rubs at extremities and light aging, VG+. Limited editionof 500 copies, this being #213. Some title pages are reproduced. Good information on Twain firsts with interesting pricing information from almost a century ago. ; Some Title Pages; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 80 +Index pages
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Lavoro Ed Usura: Tre Saggi

By: Pound, Ezra

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Milano, All'Insegna Del Pesce D'Oro: 1954

Seller ID: 15181

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Grey paper wraps over thin white pasteboard with black titles. Light edge and corner wear but with some soiling or age toning. Interior is lightly aged. This is alimited edition printing, in Italian, of 1000 copies. This is number 767. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 99VG- pages
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A Prince of Georgia and Other Tales

By: Ralph, Julian

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Harper and Brothers Publishers: 1899

Seller ID: 10785

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Red covers with gilt titles and black decoration. Light edge, corner and surface wear with a lightly sunned spine. Book is square and securely bound. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown has caused a shadow on ffep. A solid copy. ; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 162 pages; Ralph was a journalist but these appear to be short stories based on incidents from his travels
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Marie

By: Richards, Laura E.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston, Dana Estes & Company: 1894

Seller ID: 11516

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

Beige cloth with color illustration of girl playing violin. Black titles . General edge and corner wear with a stray mark on the right top front. Square and securely bound. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 96 pages
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Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters and Seymour, An Introduction

By: Salinger, J. D.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1959

Seller ID: 14970

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Book has only very light, general wear and a small bit of soiling on foredge. Jacket has some wear at spine ends and very minor edge wear elsewhere. One of Salinger's great books. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 248 pages
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Another Pamela Or, Virtue Still Rewarded

By: Sinclair, Upton

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Viking Press: 1950

Seller ID: 12324

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Book and jacket both have edge and corner wear. Endpapers of book are heavily toned, though not the rest. Jacket has a few small chips. Book is square and securely bound. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 314 pages; Epistolary parody of Richardson's Pamela, a book worthy of parody.
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Unified Field Theory : Stories

By: Soos, Frank

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Athens, The University of Georgia Press: 1998

Seller ID: 11114

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

Book and jacket are as new and unused. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 175 pages; Winner: Flannery O'Connor Award.
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The Missing Bride

By: Southworth, Mrs. Emma D. E. N.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Cleveland, The Arthur Westbrook Company: ca. 1900

Seller ID: 16076

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Pictorial wraps with oval image of bride in wedding finery; white titles. This copy has some general wear and soiling along with interior toning but is still square and securely bound. Remarkably nice copy of a fragile book. The book has no date but is probably from the late-19th or early 20th century. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
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Uncle Tom's Cabin or Negro Life in the Slave States of America

By: Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Books, Inc.: N.D.

Seller ID: 13543

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Blue cloth with gilt titles on spine. Light, general wear with toning on interior page edges. Still square and securely bound. ; The World's Popular Classics; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 371 pages; Not dated, but this edition is probably early 20th century.
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The Confessions of Nat Turner

By: Styron, William

Price: $65.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1967

Seller ID: 15760

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Book is NF with slightly bumped corners, dust jacket has minor wear on the edges. Novel based on the slave revolt led by Nat Turner in 1831, written as if told by Turner while in jail awaiting execution. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 428 pages
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On Writing and Publishing

By: Twain, Mark

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Book of the Month Club: 1994

Seller ID: 10786

Binding: Softcover

Condition: New

Book is new and unread. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 167 pages; Special volume of Twain's writing about writing, produced by BOMC as a special gift for members.
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Christian Science

By: Twain, Mark

Price: $85.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1907

Seller ID: 15312

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Red cloth with gilt, blindstamped decoration on front and gilt titles on spine. Spine lightly faded with some light corner bumps and minor soiling/aging on back. Square with a secure binding. Solid very good copy. This is a first edition, first state copy of Twain's scathing analysis of Christian Science, especially harsh in its portrayal of Mary Baker Eddy. Points: 17 titles listed in the advertisement of the Uniform Mark Twain set, eight lines including heading of illustrations, and frontispiece has Twain facsimile signature and the date1906. ; B&W Photographs; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 362 ...
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Christian Science

By: Twain, Mark

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1907

Seller ID: 15314

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Red cloth with gilt, blindstamped decoration on front and gilt titles on spine. Spine lightly faded with some light corner bumps and a circular black spot (dime-sized) on the back cover and light streaks on front (see scan.) Square with a secure binding. Solid very good copy. This is a first edition, second state copy of Twain's scathing analysis of Christian Science, especially harsh in its portrayal of Mary Baker Eddy. Points: 18 titles listed in the advertisement of the Uniform Mark Twain set, six lines including heading of illustrations, and frontispiece has Twain facsimile signature and t...
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Mark Twain: An Exhibition Selected Mainly from the Papers Belonging to the Samuel L. Clemens Estate on Deposit in the Huntington Library.

By: Twain, Mark

Price: $15.00

Publisher: San Marino, Anderson & Ritchie:The Ward Ritchie Press: 1947

Seller ID: 15320

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Tan wrappers with deep brown title. Wraps have minor soiling and very light wear on overlapping edges. Overall a solid very good copy. An Exhibition Selected Mainly from the Papers belonging to the Samuel L. Clemens Estate on deposit in The Huntington Library. Exhibition June 2, 1947. The handlist prepared by Edwin H. Carpenter, Jr. with Introduction by Dixon Wecter presents an exhibition in 14 cases of Twainiana, including letters, manuscripts, notes, photographs, correspondence, business records, notebooks, personal souvenirs, ending in case number 14 with manuscripts and notes for Twain's ...
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Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography

By: Twain, Mark

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Larchmont, Peter Pauper Press: 1930

Seller ID: 15321

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket

One of 525 copies (500 for sale) printed at the Walpole Printing Office in New Rochelle, New York. Title page woodcut and 7 woodcuts in the text. Original green cloth, printed paper label on the spine along with original tan glassine dust wrapper which has some short tears and other minor wear. Book feels unread. Very nice copy of this early Peter Pauper Press edition. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 25 pages
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Mark Twain in the White House : A Chapter from His Autobiography -- VII -- in The North American Review, December 7, 1906

By: Twain, Mark

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, North American Review Publishing Co.: 12.6.1906

Seller ID: 15323

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

323; Vol. 183, No. 9; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 1089-1216 + ads pages
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Image for The Innocents Abroad, or the New Pilgrim's Progress: Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land; with Descriptions of Countries, Nations, Incidents and Adventures, as they Appeared to the Author

The Innocents Abroad, or the New Pilgrim's Progress: Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land; with Descriptions of Countries, Nations, Incidents and Adventures, as they Appeared to the Author

By: Twain, Mark

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Hartford, American Publishing Company: 1870

Seller ID: 15325

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dark brown cloth with gilt title and decoration on front and ornate gilt titling on spine with a blindstamped APC (for the publisher) on back. Some light edge and corner wear with minor damage at spine ends. and along front edge of spine. Interior is lightly and evenly aged. Former owner's name with presentation inscription on second front free endpaper. Overall, a solid and attractive copy of this book. This is an 1879 printing -- the first was in 1869 -- probably the third or fourth. This was probably Twain's most popular book; it sold more copies in his lifetime than any other. ; 234 B&W Il...
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Tom Sawyer, Detective (Harper's Magazine, August and September, 1896, Nos. 555 & 556)

By: Twain, Mark

Price: $275.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1896

Seller ID: 14104

Binding: Softcover

The August issue has some aging/soiling on wraps but is square and securely bound but otherwise with only light edge and corner wear. VG-. The September issue lacks the cover aging and has less wear except for a short split at spine bottom and one short closed tear on bottom rear edge. VG. These issues of Harper's contain the first publication of Twain's novel, Tom Sawyer, Detective (as told by Huck Finn. ) This is both issues complete in solid condition. ; B&W Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 326-487, 488-648 pages
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn {Robotic Edition}

By: Twain, Mark (eds. Gabriel Diani and Etta Devine)

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Diani & Devine Press: 2011

Seller ID: 13439

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Book is as new. No dust wrapper as issued. ; B&W Drawings; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 359 pages; Special edition of Huck Finn in which the "N" word Is, in every case, changed to "robot," and the illustrations have been redone to show Jim as a robot rather than an African-American. Theese changes make for an entirely new reading experience that falls somewhere between satire and science fiction. Signed with inscription, "To Ken," by both editors on the title page. Privately published and somewhat uncommon book, especially signed. ; Signed by Editors
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Mark Twain Press Critic (Interviewing the Interviewer and The American Press)

By: Twain, Mark with Commentary by Thomas C. Leonard

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Berkeley, The Friends of the Bancroft Library: 2003

Seller ID: 14102

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Book would be Infine condition except for a couple of small, stray marks on front. See scan. The two Twain essays were printed for the first time in this keepsake volume for The Friends of the Bancroft Library. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
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Rabbit is Rich

By: Updike, John

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York City, Knopf: 1981

Seller ID: 7612

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Book has very light shelfwear; jacket has light edge and corner wear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 467 pages; Flat-signed by Updike on the ffep. ; Signed by Author
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Trust Me Short Stories

By: Updike, John

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A Knopf: 1987

Seller ID: 8438

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Book and jacket appear As New, square and securely bound. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 302 pages; Collection of short stories by one of America's greatest 20th century writers.
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The Witches of Eastwick

By: Updike, John

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York City, Alfred A. Knopf: 1984

Seller ID: 6275

ISBN: 0-394-53760-2

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Slight fading to edges of boards, light age-toning on endpapers form contact with DJ. DJ has light wear to edges. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 307 pages
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Category: American Literature