Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: 725 pp. 8.5 x 11. #Numbered of 1,015 copies, two vols. in slipcase, cellophane-sealed. Kemble frontispiece from the first U.S. ed. From the collection of the publisher, Frederick Gale Ruffner, Jr. The 720-leaf working manuscript, representing three-fifths of the completed book, reveals the process by which Twain's masterpiece grew through many interruptions during the course of composition (1876 - 1884). The facsimiles are the precise size of the original manuscript and appear one to a page. Endpapers are lithographs from The Valley of the Mississippi. Front cover has author's signature in gold. Boards are river mud gray with water blue quarter spine, decorated and lettered in gold.
Seller: Griswold Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Handsome (still shrink-wrapped) copies of this two-volume set, no slipcase. Introduction, by Louis Budd, followed by two volumes of the manuscript, with afterword, by William H. Loos. One of 1015 numbered copies, unknown what number (or even if it is numbered, since I don't want to tear off the original plastic). Light brown paper covered blue cloth boards, with gilded letter on spine and signature of author on front boards. On front board in upper left corner, where the plastic had split, the blue cloth has faded along an inch-long thin area.
Seller: Sumter Books (Manly, Inc.), Columbia, SC, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: 2 vols. Folio, publisher's cloth-backed boards; gilt-stamped spines, in publisher's slipcase. First facsimile edition. A fine set in a near fine, slightly sunned slipcase. A review copy with publisher's press release laid in.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Two volumes (complete), quarto, bound in ornate blue cloth and brown boards lettered in gilt. First facsimile, holographic edition, containing a facsimile reproduction of Twain's original manuscript, with an introduction by Louis Budd. One of 1015 numbered copies; this copy initialed by the publisher Matthew Bruccoli; publisher's slipcase, with original prospectus laid-in. Nick Karanivich's copy, with a note in the Twain scholar's hand referring to the set's publisher Matthew Bruccoli. A gorgeous set.
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$634.92 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First facsimile, holographic edition, containing a facsimile reproduction of Mark Twain's original manuscript, with an introduction by Louis Budd. One of 1015 numbered copies - this copy un-numbered. A two volume set of the facsimile manuscript of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, specially bound in quarter leather by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. This fine stamped Morocco binding represents the facsimile manuscript from the middle of Chapter XII through Chapter XIV, and from Chapter XXII through the end, and amounts to three-fifths of the final published text. The rest of the manuscript was found subsequently to this fine binding facsimile set being published. The facsimile manuscript (all that was known to be in existence at that time), bound in quarter blue Morocco leather and gilt stamped cloth. One of a very few copies of the limited edition that was bound specially leather bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. ***Vol I: Black and white frontispiece by E. W. Kemble for the first American edition (New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1885). Vol II: Illustration by E.W. Kemble for the first American edition (New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1885). The blue, gold and brown colour decorations on the endpapers are from The Valley of the Mississippi (St. Louis: Chambers & Knapp, 1841), courtesy of the William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan). ***Two volumes bound in quarter blue Morocco and blue cloth-covered boards, with gilt illustration to the front boards. All edges of text-block gilt. Spines Morocco leather with two raised borders and gilt tiles. The leather of the spines is slightly yellowed. Gilt titles bright. Colour marbled front and rear free endpapers. Stamped in gilt to verso of front free endpapers of both volumes: Sangorksi & Sutcliffe, Zaehnsdorf. ***Vol I: xx prelims including detailed introduction by Louis Budd plus 334 pages. Vol II: The Manuscript: pages 345-720. Afterword by William H. Loos page 723-725. Plus note to rear of Vol II: 'This manuscript facsimile is limited to 1015 numbered copies. Copy [blank]. Printed by Quentin Fiore. Printed by offset lithography on 80 lb. Mohawk Superfine paper at the Meriden Gravure Company.' ***290mm x 226mm. ***A beautifully bound manuscript facsimile edition of this classic work by Mark Twain - both volumes in fine bright condition. ***Of interest to collectors of Sangorski & Sutcliffe fine bindings and the work of Mark Twain. No other copies of this specially bound edition known to be for sale in the UK. These beautiful volumes would make a wonderful gift for the discerning book collector. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom