Rodney Robert M Editors (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK. 1966. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; scant shelfwear to board bottom edges. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($4.95); slight sunfading to spine; light wear to head and upper tips. Yellow cloth boards and spine with brown and white lettering on the spine.117 pp 8vo. Long before moving pictures were invented, youngsters from eight to eighty were being charmed by a special kind of animated cartoon—the word sketches of Mark Twain. His descriptions and episodes involving animals have all the life of a Walt Disney production with the added advantage of the great wit and artistry of Twain's prose—something which could never be captured in pictures alone. A Mark Twain sketch may begin as an ordinary cartoon: a camel eating the author's coat. You can see the scene, and it's very funny: the camel "opening and closing his eyes in a kind of religious ecstasy, as if he had never tasted anything as good as an overcoat before in his life." But then comes the Twain touch. The camel finds some newspaper correspondence, starts to eat it, and "dies a death of indescribable agony, choking on one of the mildest and gentlest statements of fact that I ever laid before a trusting public." Over and over again, Twain goes beyond mere humor to turn his portraits into truthful, though sometimes unflattering, insights into the world and human nature. For most of Twain's animals are "as human as you be." A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket. Robert Roche (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 117pp. B&W illustrations. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Printing. Selected short stories, sketches, and self-contained excerpts from Twain's principal works, book is a clean tight unmarked copy in a mylar-covered dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Condition: NEAR FINE. First printing. Excerpts from Mark Twain's writing showing his humorous and touching treatment of animals, from domestics to Western to exotics. Illustrated with a full color frontispiece and drawings by Robert Roche. xiv, 117 pp plus colophon. Near fine in very good dust jacket (price-clipped, sunning to spine of dj).…

Cloth. Condition: Good+. This is a hard cover book with tan cloth covered boards. Black titling on spine. Dust jacket is unclipped. Color painting as frontispiece. Professional book dealer since 1975. All orders are processed promptly and packaged with the utmost care. Satisfaction guaranteed. As New in Near Fine dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Edges worn.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.