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Price: US$5.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: c. 1906, Volume 24 of the Writings of Mark Twain, Author's National Edition set, HB, Fair, Edgewear, hinge cracked, stained covers, page edges and endpapers, cover bent, B&W illustrations, 380 p.
Seller: Louisville Book Net, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$7.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 311 pp. The spine covering is faded; there is a pin-hole in the gutter of the front hinge. Gilt upper page edges. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean. "Author's National Edition."
Seller: Persephone's Books, Gastonia, NC, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. The 30, 000 Bequest and Other Stories Illustrated. P. F. Collier & Son, New York, 1906.
Price: US$11.90 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Green cloth boards Published By P. F. Collier and Sons But Title Pages Lists "Harper & Brothers Edition"
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$13.21 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1906. Authorized uniform editon. 310 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Volume XXIV. Facsimile signature to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are a mildly crushed, with small splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Mark Twain. The $30,000 Bequest And Other Stories. Harper & Brothers, New York And London, 1906.
Price: US$14.10 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Spine Faded With Denting At Ends. Boards Clean, Front Board Corners Dented. All Pages Clean And Tightly Bound
Seller: Stirling Books, Stirling, United Kingdom
Twain, Mark.. THE $30,000 BEQUEST AND OTHER STORIES.. Harper, 1906., 1906.
Price: US$14.11 + shipping
Description: 8vo. [v] + [523pp.] B/w. portrait frontispiece and illustrations. Margins of pages slightly browned, title page detached, original red cloth with gilt device to upper board, faded, with some minor fraying to head of spine. US$14
Seller: Hay Cinema Bookshop Limited, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: minor board wear; tanning
Seller: OddReads, Harper, TX, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories. Harper & Brothers, New York & London, 1906.
Price: US$32.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1917 reprint. Illustrated. Near fine, no jacket. Name has been erased on inside front paste-down, else fine.
Seller: Illustrated Bookshelf, Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories. Harper & Brothers, New York & London, 1906.
Price: US$32.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1917 reprint. Illustrated. Near fine, no jacket. Penciled name on inside front paste-down.
Seller: Illustrated Bookshelf, Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories. Harper & Brothers, New York and London, 1906.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: BAL 3492, with the error "were" for "where" p. 18, line 9. Second state, with a boxed advertisement on the copyright page. The front hinge is broken, with the front board held by the mesh only. The spine is slightly faded. There is a short tear at the spine tail and soiling to the top edge. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Banjo Booksellers, IOBA, Andover, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition / Second issue. Good, no dust jacket, spine darkened, light wear at top & bottom of spine & corners, name in pen on front endpaper, front inner hinge cracked at title-page but still holding. 14 x 20cm. hard cover. 523pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
Mark Twain. THE $30,000 BEQUEST, ETC.. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1906.
Price: US$49.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good in boards. Owner bookplate to FEP. Ink stamp to title page. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. THE $30,000 BEQUEST AND OTHER STORIES. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1906.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, v, 523 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Second state, with boxed advertisements on verso of title page. Light sunning to spine. Small water stain to bottom edge of textblock. Age-toning to interior pages. Features frontispiece and seven illustrated plates tipped in. Shelved in Case 13. 1376237. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: v+523 pages with frontispiece, two plates and ten illustrations. Octavo (8" x 5 1/2"). bound in original publishers red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and author's initials on front board encircled by stamped corn with the same design blind-stamped on back board. With the boxed ad on copyright page (BAL 3492) designating first edition, second state. The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories is a collection of thirty comic short stories by the iconic American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The stories contained span the course of his career, from "Advice to Young Girls" in 1865 to the titular tale in 1904. Although Twain had ample time to refine his short stories between their original publication date and this collection, there is little evidence to suggest he took an active interest in doing so. "A Burlesque Biography" contains only a few minor technical revisions which make it different from the 1871 version found in Mark Twain's "(Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance". "Advice to Little Girls" shows slight revision from its earlier publication in The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. Condition: Spine sunned and soiled, corners gently bumped. A good to very good copy lacking dust jacket.
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. The $30,000 Bequest. Harper & Brothers, 1906.
Price: US$51.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ex-Library; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 380 pages; No Dust jacket, Book Shows Wear, Ex Church Library Book, Title Page Missing; BX86
Seller: Ye Old Bookworm, Odessa, TX, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories. Harper & Brothers, New York & London, 1906.
Price: US$64.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, second state, 1906 on title page and blind-stamped on back cover, boxed listing of other Twain works on copyright page. Illustrated. Very good, no jacket. Spine slightly faded, closed edges of pages smudged/stained (does not affect interior of pages).
Seller: Illustrated Bookshelf, Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. THE $30,000 BEQUEST. Harpers, 1906.
Price: US$75.40 + shipping
Description: THE $30,000 BEQUEST, Harpers, 1906, lst ed., spine a little lightened and soiled, some foxing to the frontis, tissue protector and title page margins, else a vg plus copy of a most difficult book to locate in first edition.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. THE $30,000 BEQUEST AND OTHER STORIES. , 1906.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: NY 1906 1st edition, 2nd issue (advertisements on verso of title) Harper. 8vo., 523pp., illustrated, bright orange-red cloth. VG, light spotting on end papers and fore-edges, slight fading of spine.
Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover. Sm 8vo (8" x 5.5."), gilt red cloth. Frontis. port., [i-viii], 523 pp., b&w illus. throughout. CONDITION: Very good, covers with small scratches and minimal fading, spine sunned, light soiling along bottom edge of text-block. First edition, second state, with "a boxed advertisement on the copyright page," and "error were for where" on p. 18, line 9. This collection, named after its eponymous title-story, also contains "A Dog's Tale," "was it Heaven? Or Hell?." "Extracts from Adam's Diary," and "Eve's Diary." The title-story proved to be the longest piece of fiction that Twain completed and published during his twilight years. BAL 3492. Rasmusen, R. Kent. Mark Twain A to Z (New York, 1995), p. 456.
Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: - Octavo, 7-3/4 inches high by 5-3/8 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in red cloth with a gilt device on the front cover and titled in gilt on the spine. The spine is faded and stained with a minor dampstain to the inner edge of the front cover. iv, [iv], 522 & [1] pages, illustrated with a frontispiece, 7 plates and other illustrations in the text. An early owner's inscription is penned on the front endpaper. There are minor stains to the first few leaves with a tiny chip out from the top corner of the frontispiece. One of the plates is lightly pulled. Good. First edition, first state with no advertisements on the copyright page. [BAL 3492].
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. THE $30,000 BEQUEST. Harpers, 1906.
Price: US$127.60 + shipping
Description: THE $30,000 BEQUEST, Harpers, (1906), a bright vg+/near fine copy in a good to very good dust-wrapper with some chipping and sun-tanning to the dust-wrapper spine. This copy published in 1924.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. THE $30,000 BEQUEST. Harpers, 1906.
Price: US$232.00 + shipping
Description: THE $30,000 BEQUEST, Harpers, 1906, first edition, (first issue without other titles listed on the copyright page) spine faded, else a tight very good to very good plus copy of a most difficult book to locate in first edition.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$3527.59 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A striking set of the works of the great American author Mark Twain, a smartly bound set including all of his best known and influential works. The collected works of Mark Twain.Complete in twenty-five volumes.This Hillcrest edition is named after one of the homes of Twain, in Tarrytown, New York, purchased by his wife in 1902. The couple never lived at Hillcrest however, as they planned to renovate it, but his wife fell into ill health.Including all of the important works of Twain, this set shows his great influence over American literature.'The Innocents Abroad', Volumes I and II. Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece and two plates. Collated, complete.'A Tramp Abroad', Volumes I and II. Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece and two plates. Collated, complete.'Following the Equator', Volumes I and II. Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece and two plates. Collated, complete.'Roughing It', Volumes I and II. Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece and two plates. Collated, complete.'Life on the Mississippi'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and two plates. Collated, complete.'The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today', Volumes I and II. Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece and two plates. Collated, complete.'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and two plates. Collated, complete.'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and two plates. Collated, complete.'Pudd'nhead Wilson'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and two plates. Collated, complete.'The Prince and the Pauper'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and two plates. Collated, complete.'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and two plates. Collated, complete.'Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc', Volumes I and II. Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece, and two plates. Collated, complete.'Sketches New and Old'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and two plates.'Tom Sawyer Abroad, and, Tom Sawyer Detective'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and four plates. Collated, complete.'American Claimant'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and two plates. Collated, complete.'How to Tell a Story'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and two plates. Collated, complete.'Corrupted Hadleyburg'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and two plates. Collated, complete.'The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, one plate, and in-text illustrations. Collated, complete.'Christian Science'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and two plates. Collated, complete. In a half calf binding with marbled paper to the boards. Externally, smart. Very light bumping to the extremities. Only a few very light marks to the boards. Dampstain to the spine of Volume II, lighter dampstain to the leather to the boards, with a light tide mark to the endpapers and first and last few pages. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom