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Twain, Mark. Old Times On The Mississippi. Belford Brothers, Publishers, Toronto, 1876.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, [3]-157, [1], [2pp ads]. Publisher's original brown cloth, title in gilt on spine, title in gilt on cover with decorative design in black. A mixed issue variant, with an advertisement not mentioned in BAL. Includes an advertisement for Tom Sawyer opposite the title page, imprint in roman numerals and an advertisement for Pausanias the Spartan (BAL 3368, Reprint B). The last advertisement is for Capital New Books, which is not mentioned in BAL. Previous owner's bookplate, with date of May 30, 1877 in pencil on front fly leaf. A scarce copy, with only one known copy appearing at auction. This work was first published in The Atlantic Monthly, from January - August of 1875. The first authorized publication in book form was included as part of Life on the Mississippi in 1883.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
. Mark Twain Tom Sawyer 1st Canadian Ed. 1876 book w/ Trollope 1st Golden Lion. , 1876.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: (Old Books, 19th Century Books, Leather Books Bindings, Fiction, Literature, Collected Volumes, Mark Twain, Anthony Trollope). The Golden Lion of Granpere, by Anthony Trollope. Published 1872, Toronto by Hunter, Rose & Co.177 pages. Text in English. First Canadian Edition, scarce. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain. Published 1876, Toronto by Belford Brothers, Publishers.341 pages. Text in English. First Canadian Edition, precedes the American Edition. Old Times on the Mississippi, by Mark Twain. Published 1876, Toronto by Belford Brothers, Publishers.145 pages. Text in English. First Canadian Ed. Sammelband of three literary works, bound together in the 19th century. All three are first editions. Rare and unique example of this major American literary classic of boyhood from Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain). Period 1/2 leather binding, raised and gilt bands, gilt title lettering and compartment decorations, marbled edges and end papers. Book remains well preserved and attractive on the shelf, split down center of leather spine, spine head chipped, book still sound, covers well attached. It displays a pleasing and unique age patina and is in nice antiquarian condition, the age flaws easy to overlook or forgive. Please review photos for more detail and our best attempt to convey how this antique item survives. Book Measures c. 7" H x 5" W.[B985].
Seller: RareMapsandBooks, Dover, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$937.50 + shipping
Description: First Canadian edition, small 8vo, pp. [6], 341, [1], [4] Belford ads; original brick red pebble-grain cloth stamped in gilt and black on upper cover and spine; cloth cracked along joints, spine a little darkened; all else very good and sound. A piracy, "almost a line for line copy of the London edition," likely issued October 6, 1876, two months prior to the American edition, but after the London edition which had appeared June 16. BAL 3609.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Belford Brothers, Toronto, 1876.
Price: US$1350.00 + shipping
Description: Some early pen trials on endleaves and top of title-page. Cloth worn ar edges and soiled. Precedes the American edition.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.