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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain\ s Library of Humor. Cosimo Classics, 1888.
Price: US$56.60 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Über den AutorSamuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its .
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: viii, 960 pages. Illustrations (some full page). Maps. Index. Boards weak and have been previously repaired with tape. Minor edge tear/chip to fep. Some damp staining at page edges noted--all pages separate and text clear. Number stamped on title page. Format is mostly two column. Some illustrations cross columns. The Century Magazine was an illustrated monthly magazine first published in the U. S. in 1881 by The Century Company of New York City, which had been bought in that year by Roswell Smith and renamed after the Century Association. It was the successor of Scribner's Monthly Magazine. The initial editor was Richard Watson Gilder, the managing editor of Scribner's, who would go on to helm The Century for 28 years. Gilder largely continued the mixture of literature, history, current events, and high-quality illustrations that Holland had used at Scribner's. The magazine was very successful during the 19th century, most notably for a series of articles about the American Civil War which ran for three years during the 1880s. It included reminiscences of 230 participants from all ranks of the service on both sides of the conflict. According to an author writing in the New York Times, the publication of The Century "made New-York, instead of London, the center of the illustrated periodicals published in the English language." The magazine was also a notable publisher of fiction, presenting excerpts of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1884 and 1885 and Henry James' The Bostonians. Original bound volumes such as this one are extremely scarce, especially when not institutional ex-library. The contents in the six issues in this volume include: Confederate Ram Albermarle, American Machine Cannon, Dynamite Guns, Army Hospitals, Telephone, Fraternities, Russian Exile System, Sally Cash, Irtish, George Kennan, Emma Lazarus, Pope Leo XIII, Abraham Lincoln, Locomotive Chase, Mexican Campaign, Mountaineers, Military System, Sheriff's Work, Ranchman, Siberia, and Sinai. Among the authors are: Walt Witman, Theodore Roosevelt, William Cushing, Edward Eggleston, Horace Porter, George Kennan, Henry James, John Nicolay, John Hay, William Pittenger, Matthew Arnold, James Whitcomb Riley, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Emma Lazarus, John Bigelow, John C. Fremont, and E. W. Kemble. Fair [Merits repair or rebinding] Presumed First Edition, First printing thus.
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: contemporary full red cloth over boards, title in gilt on flat spine, upper board with decorative gilt device., Mark Twain's Library of Humor is an 1888 anthology of short humorous works compiled by Mark Twain, pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, William Dean Howells and Charles Hopkins Clark. In 1880, George Gebbie suggested to Mark Twain that he publish an anthology of humorous works. The idea evolved into a project financed by Clemens to produce an anthology of American humor with himself as editor and Howells and Clark assisting.Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835?1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884),the latter often called "The Great American Novel".William Dean Howells (1837?1920) was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as for his own prolific writings, including the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day" and the novels The Rise of Silas Lapham and A Traveler from Altruria., Size : 8vo.,
Seller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
TWAIN, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The American Publishing Company, Hartford, CT, 1888.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Square small quarto, 273pp., illustrated. Slightly shaken, as often, with the rear inner hinge thinly cracked, and the page block generally loosened somewhat, but still sound, and unusually clean, internally and externally. Contemporary bookplate to the front paste-down. Shallow abrasions to the spine ends and slight darkening to spine, but really overall a better than very good example of an unwieldy book most often found in a very sorry state, or with extensive repairs. Though an 1880s reprint, still identical to the first printing but for a few very minor issue points; the binding, type, and illustrations are all just as they appeared in the first printing, a book which, in similar unrestored condition, would set one back five figures.
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.