Beard Dan Illustrator (11 results)

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 416 pages. 7.25x4.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 528 pages. 7.75x5.00x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 3rd edition. 208 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. None. First Edition. A superb copy with gleaming cover gilt, tight and unmarked except for a historic 1919 Asheville, North Carolina bookplate neatly tipped to the front endpaper. Twain wrote this novel with the help of phonographic dictation, likely the first author to do so. This was also an attempt to write a book without mention of the weather, the first of its kind in fictitious literature (although, of course, the first sentence of the second paragraph contains "fine, breezy morning"). Indeed, all the weather is contained in an appendix at the back of the book, which the reader is encouraged to reference from time to time. The story is a comedy of mistaken identities and multiple role switches. One rarely finds such a fine copy of this Twain work.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 3rd edition. 208 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.50 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. First state beige cloth binding with 5 5/8" between Twain and Webster on spine (BAL 3440). 4 pages ads in back. Beige pictorial cloth cover is soiled with frayed corners and caps and some loss to the gilt lettering on spine though all text is still visible. Boards and spine are straight. Former owner's name on front paste down. Gutter cracked at both front and back and binding holding just by threads. Second front end sheet and half title page detached (together) and laid-in. Moderate foxing/thumbing to frontispiece and title page. Pages are toned with thumbing/foxing throughout. Illustrated in b&w.; 0 pages. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First Edition. A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur by Mark Twain (First Edition) A firm copy with moderate wear to spine edges; bumping to corners. Fraying to rear joint and mild sunning to spine. Mild offset tanning to endpapers. Owners' names to front pastedown, fly leaf, and to page B. No jacket present. Title page dated 1889. Red cloth with gilt lettering and black and red pictorial designs; patterned endpapers. 526 pp. Illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard; 220 illustrations. Publisher's adverts laid in at rear. Dan Beard(Illustrator) (illustrator). BOOK.…

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, 219, [4] pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in gray-tan cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Mild shelf wear. Sunning and water damage to spine. Fraying to cloth on spine and corners. Soiling to front and rear boards. Age-toning to textblock and interior pages. Signed by previous owner on front free endpaper. Tearing to gutter at front pastedown, with webbing exposed. Features illustrations throughout by Beard. With four pages of advertisements in rear. Shelved in Case 13. BAL 3440. 1376182. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition! Dust jacket included. Dust jacket has significant wear but no rips or tears. Biography. BA.

Hardcover. 8vo (8.5" x 6.75"), gilt pictorial green cloth. [i-xvi], 17-575, 2 pp. pub. ads. Illus. throughout by Daniel Beard. CONDITION: Very good, small chip at front edge of spine, inner front hinge paper cracked, but hinge still firm with very little slackness, slightly cocked. First edition, first state, with small S-like ornament in between the words of the caption on pg. 59. An ambitious science-fiction narrative following a 19th-century American's attempts to bring modern technology and political ideology to 6th-century England, inspired both by elements of feudal life that Twain observed in Hawaii in 1866 and Arthurian romances. REFERENCES: BAL 3429; Rasmussen, Kent. Mark Twain A to Z. 1995. pgs. 86, 98. …

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. A superlative copy of the first edition, first printing. 219, [5] pp. with four advertising pages at rear. Complete with 25 black and white half-tone plates including map and frontispiece. Bound in publisher's pale gray cloth with gilt lettering and pictorial stamping in black and orange, BAL's state B with 5-3/8 inches between "Twain" and "Webster" on spine, priority unknown. Near Fine with very light toning to cloth and small dent to upper edge of front board. Light toning and occasional thumbing to contents, old tape repair to lower margin of pp. 43/44; contents overall clean and bright. A beautiful copy of this sequel to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, narrated by the eponymous hero of that novel. Huck, Tom, and Jim are swept to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon and get caught up in a ludicrous series of events that parodies the novels of Jules Verne. As always, the fantastic plot is punctuated by Twain's sharp humor, as when Tom declares to his skeptical friends that the theft of a person's land is fine as long as it's a matter of religion and not business, weighting his argument with the authority of centuries of Western history.…