Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Not Marked Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
Seller: 4 THE WORLD RESOURCE DISTRIBUTORS, Springfield, MO, U.S.A.
TWAIN, Mark. The £1,000,000 Bank-Note and Other New Stories. Charles L. Webster and Company, 1893.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 260pp, small octavo in tan cloth, gilt and two-toned illustration embossed to front cover. light mottling to upper spine, mild wear to book edges, boards mostly clean with illustration clear and clean, page open easily at a few points yet binding solid, owner name to ffep, small spot to front endpapers, text clean.
Seller: COLLINS BOOKS, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Illustrations by Dan Beard. 260, [2], 9, ads. pp. 1 vols. 8vo. BAL 3436; McBride 158 Original tan cloth, decorated in brown and gilt, edges and spine darkened, spine chipped, some pencillings, light browning and soiling of text Illustrations by Dan Beard. 260, [2], 9, ads. pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. The ?1,000,000 bank-note, and other new stories. Charles L. Webster & Co, 1893.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York, 1893; 1st edition; illustrated gray cloth covered boards; NOT AS PICTURED IN STOCK PHOTO; covers shelf darkened; edge and corner wear; 8vo, 7 3/4"-9 3/4" tall; Interior is clean and unmarked; 260 pages.
Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: 260, 9 p., [1] leaf of plates: 1 ill.; 20 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Plates. Good / illustrated cover lightly soiled / tape at spine-ends. tape at inside hinge. text clean. ex-lib. still nice solid book. Publisher's advertisements on final 9 p. Contents: The £1, 000, 000 bank-note--Mental telegraphy--A cure for the blues--The enemy conquered, or, Love triumphant--About all kinds of ships--Playing the courier--The German Chicago--A petition to the Queen of England--A majestic.
Seller: Ken's Book Haven, Coopersburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$70.75 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: original decorated cloth, spine bumped and chipped, corners rubbed, frontispiece, advertisement leaves, upper joint cracked, pencil ownership signature front free endpaper, first few leaves frayed at leading edge, some dust soiling, good; first edition; 260 pages.
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Twain Mark. The L1,000,00 Banknote. Charles L. Webster & Co., New York, 1893.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ex-Library
Seller: Ann Open Book, Lansing, MI, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. The 1,000,000 Bank Note. Charles L. Webster and Company, 1893.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: tan decorated binding. lightly cracked front hinge
Seller: RP BOOKS, Newport, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cover shows significant discoloration.
Seller: Chester Creek Books, Duluth, MN, U.S.A.
Mark Twain. The ?1,000,000 bank-note, and other new stories. Charles L. Webster & Co, 1893.
Price: US$98.49 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First American edition. 1893, Webster. Text is clean and unmarked. Edges and papers show some foxing. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Covers are soiled and show very light edge wear. Not the same cover as pictured.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
Seller: Redux Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 260 pp + x pp adverts, prevous owner's inked inscription on ffep, b&w frontis, 9 stories, including the title piece and "Mental Telegraphy", a detailed inquiry into "psychic research". 5.7" x 8" brown cloth boards, embossed gilt, black design fr cover, & faded gilt spine letters. Cloth darkened, spine especially. t.p. vertical tear from the bottom along the hinge less than 2" long. Size: Wide Octavo
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: 260 + 9 [ads] pp. 8vo, publisher's pictorial cloth. First edition. BAL 3436. Spine tanned; cloth very slightly used at extremities.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Sunned along spine. Light wear to head of spine. Thin gap (of about one inch in length) in material starting at head of spine. Previous owner's name on first free end page. Closed tear on top edge of p. 35 at a diagonal, at end of closed tear a faint line continues, text not affected. Small closed tear on fore-edge of p. 35. Several pages slightly creased at one corner. Otherwise very good.
Seller: The Dawn Treader Book Shop, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. The £1,000,000 Bank-Note (Million Pound). Charles L. Webster & Company, New York, 1893.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 260 + 9 pages of ads. Tan cloth, gilt, brown and black lettering and decoration. Bright copy, spine sunned and a tiny spot, but readable, bookplate of owners tipped-in on front endpapers, some cracking to gutter, text is clean.
Seller: Old Bookshelf, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Price: US$210.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. (21 cm.) -260; blank leaf; advertisements pp. -9. Black and white frontispiece drawing by Dan Beard inserted with tissue guard. Tan cloth with black, brown and gilt letters on the front cover and gilt letters on the spine and with a vignette in gilt, brown and black of a wolf running to the right trailing a ribbon with the word "Starvation" on it set against a background of sun with shining rays. Cartouche in lower right corner of front cover of braided leaves with "Mark Twain" in the center. Very minor wear to extremities with nothing rubbed through, top and bottom of spine somewhat tender, spine slightly darkened, all gilt bright, some evidence of silverfish grazing on the covers, frontispiece in fine condition, tissue guard intact, fingernail sized stain on front free pastedown and endpaper, else very good to near fine with no internal markings. No dust jacket. Blanck 3436 Other stories include the following: Mental Telegraphy, A Cure for the Blues, The Enemy Conquered, About All Kinds of Ships, Playing Courier, The GermanChicago, A Petition to the Queen of England, and A Majestic Literary Fossil. Daniel Carter "Uncle Dan" Beard (1850 – 1941) was an American illustrator, author, youth leader, and social reformer who also illustrated Twain's A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT.
Seller: Live Oak Booksellers, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: BAL 3436. Johnson p. 55. First book publication of nine stories. Near fine copy (minor stains to front cover, spine sunned). 260 [2] pages + 9 pages of advertisements, Gilt decorated hard cover. Tan cloth over boards, pictorial front cover, spine and front cover stamped in black, brown and gold.
Seller: BookMine, Fair Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
[CLEMENS, Samuel L.]. 1,000,000 Pound Bank-Note and Other New Stories. By Mark Twain. , 1893.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: [CLEMENS, Samuel L.]. The 1,000,000 Pound Bank-Note and Other New Stories. By Mark Twain. Orig. cloth. N.Y.: Charles Webster, 1893. First edition. BAL 3436. A very good copy.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. The $1,000,000 Bank-Note and other stories. Charles L. Webster & Company, 1893.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Very good with bumped corners and a darkened spine, although the lettering on the spine is still readable.
Seller: Paul Johnson Fine Books, IOBA, Temecula, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: New York, NY: Charles L. Webster & Company. Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1893. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo., 260 pp plus catalog, cover toning, hinges cracked, name written o n ffe, .
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 260, 9 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in tan cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Minor shelf wear. Sunning to spine. Minor rubbing to front board. Light age-toning to interior pages. Foxing to rear endpaper and pastedown. Shelved in Case 13. BAL 3436. 1376179. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$252.44 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The L 1,000,000. Bank Note And Other Stories, 260 pages plus 9 pages of ads in the rear of the book, corners bumped, right top corner of pages having been bent over at one time, page 130 and 131 with a couple of minor smudges otherwise book is pretty clean, tight, and complete. Story is about two Englishmen who had two "one million pound notes printed by the bank of England, the story centers around a dispute between the two brothers as to how an American would behave should he fall into possession of one of the notes, there are other stories appearing as well for the first time.
Seller: Barry's Books, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Twain's classic short story collection. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece by Dan Beard and 9 pages of publisher's advertisements at rear. BAL 3436. In very good condition. Period ownership inscription. "To understand America, read Mark Twain. No matter what new craziness pops up in America, I find it described beforehand by him He was never innocent, at home or abroad" (Garry Wills). "High and fine literature is wine," Twain once wrote, "and mine is only water; but everybody likes water." Raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Samuel Clemens, of Mark Twain, was lauded in his obituary as the "greatest humorist this country has produced." His 1885 novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is often referred to as "The Great American Novel."
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover. Sm 8vo (7.75" x 5.5"), gilt pictorial tan cloth. Frontis., 1-260 pp., 9 pp. pub. ads. Early inscription of "Clare Smith" in ink on front pastedown. CONDITION: Very good, covers somewhat sunned, slightly cocked. First edition, first printing. BAL 3436. With flyleaf at rear as noted by BAL.
Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. The £1,000,000 Bank Note. Charles L.Webster and Company, New York, 1893.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Small octavo light brown pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, brown and black and lettered in gilt. With a frontispiece by Dan Beard. Just the slightest rubbing at the extreme spine tips and a couple of light spots to the front cover, else a near fine copy. BAL 3436.
Seller: The Literary Lion,Ltd., Thousand Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. THE £1,000,000 [MILLION POUND] BANK-NOTE and Other New Stories. , 1893.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Description: New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1893. 9 pp undated ads. Original tan cloth decorated in brown, black and gilt. First Edition of this collection of nine pieces -- some fiction and some non-fiction. The title tale speculates what would happen if a perfectly honest American chap were turned adrift in London with nothing but a million-pound bank note issued by the Bank of England, and no way to account for his being in possession of it. This is a close-to-fine copy -- spine slightly darkened (as usual), but scarcely any of the usual cover soil. Blanck 3436; McBride p. 158.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. 1,000,000 Banknote. Charles L. Webster & Co., New York, 1893.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: £1,000,000 Banknote by Mark Twain. First printing with publishing date on both the title-page and copyright page. Rebound in dark brown ¾ leather with brown pebble design marbled paper. As new binding. Paper labels. Publisher: Charles L. Webster & Co., New York, 1893. Slight foxing to the front free endpapers and less so to the title-page else an exceptionally clean copy with gilding on top edge. 260 pages plus ads in back. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #12-215. Price: $400. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. THE L1,000,000 BANK-NOTE, and Other New Stories. Charles L. Webster, New York, 1893.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo tan cloth boards stamped in gilt, brown and black on front and gilt on spine. A bright, fine copy.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$506.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first state (BAL 3436). Spine and edges very slightly toned, owner bookplates of C.O.G. Miller and Richard Kendall Miller on front endpaper, top edge faintly foxed, loss of gilt from spine and front board. Binding tight, text clean, bright, and unmarked. 1893 Hard Cover. 260, 9 pp. 8vo. Beige cloth, gilt, black, and brown titles and decorations. Frontispiece by Dan Beard. A collection of short stories by the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Roughing It, etc. The titular story takes place in Victorian London, where two very rich, eccentric brothers give the penniless story protagonist, Henry Adams, one million pounds of money in the form of a single peerless bank note. Henry would not be easily able to exchange that note in the bank without being questioned about how he had come to it, charged with theft and arrested. He would also not be able to spend it since no ordinary person would be able to change it. Includes: The £1,000,000 Bank-Note; Mental Telegraphy; A Cure for the Blues; The Enemy Conquered; or, Love Triumphant; About All Kinds of Ships; Playing Courier; The German Chicago; A Petition to the Queen of England; A Majestic Literary Fossil.
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: BAL 3436 / FRONTISPIECE BY DAN BEARD PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL LIGHT BROWN CLOTH WITH GILT TITLES TO THE SPINE AND ILLUSTRATED UPPER COVER IN GILT BLACK AND DARK BROWN. OTHER THAN A TRACE OF INSECT TRACKING ON THE FRONT SPINE EDGE AND EXCELLENT NICELY PRESERVED CLEAN AND BRIGHT COPY WITH GILT TITLES STILL BRIGHT AND CORNERS AND SPINE ENDS WITHOUT WEAR.
Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. The £1,000,000 Bank-Note. Charles L. Webster & Company, New York, 1893.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Small 8vo. [6], 9-260, [3], 9 (pages of publisher's advertisements), [3] pp. Bound in tan cloth with gilt, brown, and black decorations on the front board. Illustrated by a frontispiece. BAL 3436, Ahearn APG 045a, McBride 135. A Near Fine book with a small crack to the rear hinge (binding is still tight and secure) and a tiny spot of discoloration on the front board.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark.. The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories. Charles L. Webster,, New York:, 1893.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A beautiful, bright and clean copy with the frontispiece illustration by Beard and a nine page catalogue of publisher's books at the rear. Wonderfully decorated brown cloth and gilt lettered spine. Housed in a custom 1/2 maroon smooth leather case lettered in gilt. Size: 8vo.
Seller: Quaker Hill Books, Redding, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$749.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good in boards. Front hinge starting. Panel corners lightly bumped.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.