Twain Mark Intro Albert Bigelow (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

HARD BACK BURGUNDY. Condition: GOOD. General wear: small bookplates,foxing, soiled covers, Vol 2 has two cracks in text block but all pages intact and present, pencil marks on title page Gold top edge gilt still visible Vol. 1 has368 pages Vol. 2 has 365 pages DATE PUBLISHED: 1924 EDITION:

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good. Later Printing. 2-volume set (complete). Top edge gilt in good condition. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 25602.

Cloth. Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1923. A Good+ copy. 8vo, 406 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with titles in gilt. Cloth unevenly faded especially spine. Tips and edges lightly rubbed. Toning and foxing throughout. Title page especially dark, water stain to lower 10% of first 10 pages. Text is unmarked. A Good reading copy. Stated 1st edition with Harper's code e-x.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. New York (1924). 2 volume. First edition stated on copyright pages. Well preserved copies. Blue cloth with gold lettering. Top edge dusted in gilt. Light general wear to the extremities and minimal soiling else a very near fine set. Lacking the very scarce jackets as usually presented. Written by Twain but, upon his request, published posthumously.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1923 1st edition, 1st impression. Red cloth, black titles to spine, gilt design to front. A collection of essays. Condition: Very Good. Spine darkened, light sunning to top front edge, various marks to cloth. Pages tanned. Size: 8x5.5in / 20x14cm. 406pp. Weight: 625g.

Condition: Good.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The two volume first printings of Mark Twain's autobiography, dictated by him during the last years of his life. The first edition, first printing of these works, with 'H-Y' and 'First Edition' to the colophon of each volume, and duplicate half titles to volume II. BAL state A.Illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume, retaining the original tissue guard. Collated, complete.The memoir contains a rambling collection of anecdotes and ruminations, rather than being a chronology detailed autobiography. This is as a result of Twain dictating the memoir, rather than writing it himself.With the inscription 'H. G. Haymaker Foreign Office' to each front free endpaper.With two pages of advertisements to the rear of volume II.Compiled and edited by Twain's personal friend and literary executor Albert Bigelow Paine, this is a smart first edition of the autobiography of this major literary figure. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Bumping to spine head and tail. Rubbing to joints, with fading to back strip, and mark to tail of volume I back strip. Rear hinge of volume I and front hinge of each volume strained, and slightly tender. Inscription to front free endpapers. Internally, generally firmly bound. Spotting to title pages and frontispiece perimeters, with pages otherwise generally clean and bright. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 2vol.set: 368&365pp.incl.indexes(adverts,vol.II); HBs dk.blue w/gilt-gilt trim; some rub w/wear on edges&corners; ft.hinge cracked,v.1; clean,tight pgs. DJs blue w/dk.blue-photocovers; rubbed w/wear on edges&corners; spines heavy sun w/stains; 1x2"chip,tp.spine,v1; some lt.stains. Slipcase off-white w/blue w/dk.blue label-photocover; heavy rub w/wear on edges&corners; spine separated w/tape repair; soiled. "Here at last is the extraordinary book which Mark Twain dictated at intervals over a long period of years, with the stipulation that it should not be published until long after his death.'.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1925. First Edition, with edition statement and H-Y code on copyright in both volumes. BAL variant A with ads at back of Vol II. Octavos; xvi, [1]-368pp; [viii], 365pp +2 ads. Frontispieces with printed tissue guards. Blue dust jackets with photo portrait vignette; books in navy blue cloth with blindstamped border and gilt lettering. Gilt top page edges. Vol I: Front jacket panel separated down joint with chipping along severed edges; tears down back joint fold as well with a few others across spine, lighter chipping at spine ends. Vol II: Light edgewear to jacket with a few small chips and tears and a small puncture at spine. Both volumes faded and waterspotted down spines, with fading along edges and some foxing along fore-edge. Boards of both volumes lightly shelfworn and nudged at spine ends, with some faint soiling to back of second volume. Front board of Vol. I opens a bit shakily, but binding is holding soundly in both. Endpapers toned down gutters. Bindings are sound and pages unmarked. Bookplate of collector Philip Greely Brown (1855-1934) on front pastedown of each volume. Brown was president of the First National Bank of Portland [Maine] as well as of the Board of Directors for the Portland Public Library. An October 1935 announcement of the sale of his library in the New York Times describes a collection heavily invested in American Fiction and Historical Americana (especially works pertaining to Maine), as well as travel, sport, and biographical / genealogical works. [BAL 3537 - A variant, with tentative priority].