Smith Bernard Preface (8 results)
Published by Harper & Row, New York, 1959
- Hardcover
Seller: Blue Moon Books, Stevens Point, WI, U.S.A.Blue Moon Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCloth. Condition: Fair. Reading copy. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light bowing to boards and staining to page ends. Toning to pages and edgewear. Dust jacket has many flaws with tape repairs and heavy rubbing and edgewear and few small tears.
More imagesLETTERS FROM THE EARTH (Fawcett Crest Book M1447)
Mark Twain; Bernard DeVoto (Editor); Henry Nash Smith (Preface)
Language: English
Published by Fawcett Publications, Greenwich, CT, 1962
- Softcover
Seller: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.100POCKETS
Contact seller4-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued. Text/NEW w/faint margin discoloration & the letter "M" to fEP. Softcover (Portrait of seated white-haired Twain dressed in white)/Good/sound w/edge rubs & creasing to front & back. Text blocks dyed red. Posthumous anthology of essays & short stories from Mar…k Twain, pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910), best known for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). 240 pgs, edited by Pulitzer Prize winner, historian Bernard DeVoto (1897 - 1955), whose biography was written by Wallace Stegner. Contents are: 1, Letters from the Earth; 2, Papers from the Adams Family (7 chapters); 3, Letter to the Earth; 4, A Cat-Tale; 5, Cooper's Prose Style; 6, Official Report to the I.I.A.S.; 7, The Gorky Incident; 8, Simplified Spelling; 9, Something About Repentance; 10, From an English Notebook; 11, From the Manuscript of "A Tramp Abroad"; The French & the Comanches; 12, From an Unfinished Burlesque of Books on Etiquette; 13, The Damned Human Race (5 essays); and 14, The Great Dark, followed by Editorial & Biographical Notes. Strong copy w/tired softcover.
Song in Stone to Mary, A [National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception: The historical sketch, background, planning & beginnings of the basilica: 1915-1933]
McKenna, Msgr Bernard A., as told to Msgr Victor F. O'Daniel / Ignatius Smith, OP, preface by
Seller: Preserving Christian Publications, Inc, Boonville, NY, U.S.A.Preserving Christian Publications, Inc
Contact seller4-star seller1953 509 pages illustrated binding (fair/poor) pages (good).
Song in Stone to Mary, A [National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception: The historical sketch, background, planning & beginnings of the basilica: 1915-1933]
McKenna, Msgr Bernard A., as told to Msgr Victor F. O'Daniel / Ignatius Smith, OP, preface by
Seller: Preserving Christian Publications, Inc, Boonville, NY, U.S.A.Preserving Christian Publications, Inc
Contact seller4-star sellerCondition: (good/fair). 1953 509 pages illustrated.
Letters From The Earth
Twain, Mark; Edited By Bernard Devoto; With A Preface By Henry Nash Smith (Dated March 1962)
Published by New York: Harpers & Row Publishers, 1962
- Hardcover
Seller: Time Tested Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.Time Tested Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Near fine
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Priority uncertain. No statement of edition. 'K-M' on verso. '0962' on front flap of dust jacket. Preface dated March, 1962. Near fine hardback in very good plus price-clipped dust jacket. Name of previous owner (2 inch by 3/8 inch) in upper fore-edge corner of f…ront pastedown. Dust jacket has 1/2 inch chips to head and heel of spine; a 1/4 inch by 1/4 inch chip to lower edge of front panel at spine; 3 inch by 3/4 inch chip to upper edge of rear panel at fore-edge fold; and moderate, if not minor additional wear/shelf wear/ rubbing to rear panel, edges, corners and front folds of spine and fore-edge.
- Hardcover
Seller: Masalai Press, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.Masalai Press
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 272 pp., illustrations. ex-library, dust jacket wear, bottom edges of cover are worn, label inside front cover, labels & stamps on 1st blank page, label on last blank page, labels inside back cover 0.0.
Letters From The Earth
Twain, Mark; Edited By Bernard Devoto; With A Preface By Henry Nash Smith (Dated March 1962)
Published by New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1962
- Hardcover
Seller: Time Tested Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.Time Tested Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Near fine
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Priority uncertain. No statement of edition. 'K-M' on verso. '0962' on front flap of dust jacket. Preface dated March, 1962. Near fine plus, if not fine hardback in near fine dust jacket ($5.95). Book is faded along 1/8 inch of bottom edge of covers. Dust jacket…has a 3/8 inch closed tear to bottom edge of front panel near fore-edge corner; a 3/4 inch closed tear to top edge of front panel at spine-fold; wear to 1/4 inch of head and heel of spine; a a 1/2 inch closed tear and associated 1.25 inch hairline crease to top edge of rear panel and minor, if not trivial shelf wear/rubbing to panels, corners, edges, fore-edge folds, and extremities.
Published by Secker & Warburg, London, 1975
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Marcus Campbell Art Books, London, United KingdomMarcus Campbell Art Books
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First Edition. 31 x 25 cm 272 pp with 232 colour and 450 b&w illustrations. Cloth, very good in dustmarked dustwrapper. Inscribed by Arthur Boyd (son).
