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Mark Twain. The American claimant. Chatto & Windus, 1892.

Price: US$3.00 + shipping

Condition: Poor

Description: Former library book. Has been repaired by replacing the spine and meanding the hinges. Has been glued back into its covers after being shaken loose. Solid binding. Boards are moderate to severely edgeworn. Shows more than the usual amount of shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.

Seller: Library House Internet Sales, Grand Rapids, OH, U.S.A.

Twain,Mark. The American Claimant. Chatto & Windus, London, 1892.

Price: US$10.40 + shipping

Condition: Poor

Description: This is a Poor Copy of this book in the original blue cloth with gilt title lettering to spine and lettered in black to upper cover.Sadly the book is rather damp stained affecting outer boards and first 30 pages of text,with scuffing to cloth at base of spine and with one former owner's label to the front pastedown.Weakness evident to gutter hinges also.Still though a true First Edition,8vo 258pp plus ads First Edition Size: 8vo - over 5¾" - 7¾" Tall

Seller: Richard Thornton Books PBFA, Old Langho, United Kingdom

Twain, (Mark). The American Claimant. Chatto & Windus, London, 1892.

Price: US$27.30 + shipping

Condition: Poor

Description: endpapers has stamp and marks Size: Octavo (standard book size). spine very worn, parts missing. Moderately foxed throughout. Edges browned slightly. soiled and damaged boards. Category: Fiction; Britain/UK; 19th century;

Seller: The Petersfield Bookshop, ABA, ILAB, Petersfield, Hampshire, United Kingdom

MARK TWAIN. THE AMERICAN CLAIMANT. chatto 1 windus, 1892.

Price: US$34.35 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: RO60061105: 1892. In-12. Cartonnage d'éditeurs. Etat d'usage, Plats abîmés, Dos fané, Intérieur acceptable. 258 pages + 32 pages de catalogue éditeur. Frontispice en noir et blanc avec serpente. Quelques illustrations dans le texte. Mouillures sur le haut des plats. Dos décoloré. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne

Seller: Le-Livre, SABLONS, France

Jerome K. Jerome & Barr, Robert. THE IDLER Magazine, an Illustrated Monthly. Vol. I 1892. Chatto & Windus, London, 1892.

Price: US$39.01 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Frontis illustrated with a Sanguine Portrait Drawing of Mark Twain. Serial Stories include "The American Claimant" by Mark Twain. Many Other contributors including; Andrew Lang "Enchanted cigarettes", illustrated by Lascelles; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "De Profundis" illustrated by Dudley Hardy Eden Phillpotts and many more. Very well illusrated with monochrome In-Text Illustrations, some Full-Page Plates and some B&W Photos. Artists include G. Hutchinson, R. Jack, & Ernest Griset. Green cloth cover with Gilt Title and illustration of a Grecian Lady (an Allegory of Time) on front. Gilt Lettering to spine. All page edges speckled Red. 724 Pages, 1.2 Kilos, 8 3/4" Tall. Some edge wear to cloth. Hinges sound & Binding firm. Only a few occasional spots of foxing, pages in nice, clean condition. No inscriptions. ( Vol II 1893 also available in similar binding, I'm happy to give a quantity discount on 2 volumes). Please ask if you would like more Pictures, Information or a Shipping Quote. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Bay Books, Penzance, United Kingdom

Twain, Mark ( Clemens, Samuel ) 1835 – 1910. The American Claimant. Chatto and Windus, London, 1892.

Price: US$44.29 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: The Weather in This Book and list of illustrations. The text is illustrated with black-and-white drawings by Dan Beard and Hal Hurst, including a tissue guarded frontispiece – the tissue guard has become a little creased. Red coloured boards with black coloured embossed decorations and titles to the front panel and gilt coloured titles and black coloured illustration to the back strip. This book is about mistaken identities, multiple role switches and no mention of weather! The author dictated this book using a pornographic dictation device, the first author to do so. The book is starting to show signs of age and use. Bumping, rubbing and fraying of the book corners with the underlying board is visible to the lower book corners. Softening, rubbing and fraying of the back strip and there is a 2 1/2 inch split to the rear spine gutter edge. Fading of the back strip along with some marks visible. Staining to the panels along with rubbing. Light age toning of the text block edges and even lighter tanning of the pages. Offset tanning and some foxing to the end pages with previous owners name, with a date of 13/1/93 (1893) to the free front end page. First English Edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [9], X - XI, [2], 3 - 258, [34 – of which 32 a further titles from publishing house] pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Dan Beard and Hal Hurst. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; 19th century; Humour. Inventory No: 0288940.

Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

MARK TWAIN.. THE AMERICAN CLAIMANT.. CHATTO & WINDUS., LONDON., 1892.

Price: US$45.51 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Mark Twain the famous American author wrote this book set in England. 8vo.Pp,[1],258,[2],32 adverts. Original cloth covered boards. Slight foxing to front and rear endpapers. Illustrated through out. A good tight copy.

Seller: Highstreet Books ABA ILAB, Honiton, United Kingdom

TWAIN, Mark. The American claimant. Chatto & Windus, London, 1892.

Price: US$45.57 + shipping

Description: Spine browned with wear to cloth at head and foot. Ads at rear dated May 1892; later issue in blue cloth. Used - Good. Good hardback in ribbed blue cloth with gilt

Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Twain, Mark. THE AMERICAN CLAIMANT. Chatto and Windus, London, 1892.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Pages 1 - 19; 137 - 147; 255 - 274; 460 - 471; 572 - 591; and 697 - 710 to be continued in next volume. The Idler Magazine, Vol. I. February to July, 1892. Twain frontis. Spine is shifted; corners bumped and worn; front and rear hinges tape repaired; binding is cracked at page 611. Good. (130)

Seller: Colorado Pioneer Books, Centennial, CO, U.S.A.

TWAIN, Mark; BEARD, Dan & HURST, Hal (illus.). The American Claimant. Chatto and Windus, London, 1892.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: xi, 258, 32 p. 81 b&w drawings. Red cloth with black impressing. Spine lean. Corners bumped, some edge wear, dampstains and soiling. Spine darkened with torn ends. Some soiling to endpapers. P. 31 at rear has chipped margin not affecting text.

Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada

Jerome K. Jerome & Robert Barr, Edited by / contributions by Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Arthur Conan Doyle, Eden Philpotts, Andrew Lang, others. The Idler Magazine. / An Illustrated Monthly./ Vol I. / February to July 1892 (INCLUDING FIRST PUBLICATION OF THE FIRST SHERLOCK HOLMES PARODY, ROBERT BARR'S 'ADVENTURES OF SHERLAW KOMBS,' ALSO KNOWN AS 'THE GREAT PEGRAM MYSTERY,' AS WELL AS MARK TWAIN'S 'THE AMERICAN CLAIMANT' AND BRET HARTE'S 'THE CONSPIRACY OF MRS. BUNKER'). Chatto & Windus, London, 1892.

Price: US$65.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Bound volume of the first six issues of Robert Barr's London-based monthly humor magazine, "The Idler," for which he chose Jerome K. Jerome as his collaborator (wanting, as Jerome said, "a popular name.") Half-bound in green leather over blindstamped green cloth in a foliate pattern, spine divided into six compartments with a red leather label, "Very good" with considerable rub to corners and to top of spine, original green endpapers, the internal hinges starting to open but boards still well attached. Front pastedown bears the nameplate of Charles A. Reynolds, Barnsbury Park, London, N. Includes the first six installments of Mark Twain's "The American Claimant" (though not through the end -- illustrated by Hal Hurst); Bret Harte's "The Conspiracy of Mrs. Bunker" (complete -- illustrated by Geo. Hutchinson); Andrew Lang's "Enchanted Cigarettes" (illustrated by Lascelles); Conan Doyle's "Glamour of the Arctic" and "De Profundis"; interviews with Mark Twain and Bret Harte; several pieces by Eden Philpotts, and (most significantly for Holmesian scholars) what is reputedly the first and still among the best of Sherlock Holmes parodies, "Detective Stories Gone Wrong -- The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs," offered under Barr's pen name "Luke Sharp," and again illustrated by Geo. Hutchinson. (The spoof -- now better known as "The Great Pegram Mystery" -- was continued a decade later in another Barr story, "The Adventure of the Second Swag" (1904). Despite those jibes at the growing Holmes phenomenon, Barr remained on good terms with Conan Doyle. In "Memories and Adventures," a serial memoir published 1923-24, Doyle described Barr as "a volcanic Anglo- or rather Scot-American, with a violent manner, a wealth of strong adjectives, and one of the kindest natures underneath it all.") 724 pp., here reduced from $200.

Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.

Jerome K. Jerome & Robert Barr, Edited by / contributions by Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Arthur Conan Doyle, Eden Philpotts, Andrew Lang, others. The Idler Magazine. / An Illustrated Monthly./ Vol I. / February to July 1892 (INCLUDING FIRST PUBLICATION OF THE FIRST SHERLOCK HOLMES PARODY, ROBERT BARR'S 'ADVENTURES OF SHERLAW KOMBS,' ALSO KNOWN AS 'THE GREAT PEGRAM MYSTERY,' AS WELL AS MARK TWAIN'S 'THE AMERICAN CLAIMANT' AND BRET HARTE'S 'THE CONSPIRACY OF MRS. BUNKER'). Chatto & Windus, London, 1892.

Price: US$65.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Bound volume of the first six issues of Robert Barr's London-based monthly humor magazine, "The Idler," for which he chose Jerome K. Jerome as his collaborator (wanting, as Jerome said, "a popular name.") Half-bound in black leather with pebbled blue boards, spine divided into six compartments with a red leather label, "Very good" with some modest rub to spine edges, original dark green & cranberry floral endpapers, the internal hinges starting to open but boards still well attached. This copy came to us without title page or three-page index, both of which are now laid in, in facsimile. Includes the first six installments of Mark Twain's "The American Claimant" (though not through the end -- illustrated by Hal Hurst); Bret Harte's "The Conspiracy of Mrs. Bunker" (complete -- illustrated by Geo. Hutchinson); Andrew Lang's "Enchanted Cigarettes" (illustrated by Lascelles); Conan Doyle's "Glamour of the Arctic" and "De Profundis"; interviews with Mark Twain and Bret Harte; several pieces by Eden Philpotts, and (most significantly for Holmesian scholars) what is reputedly the first and still among the best of Sherlock Holmes parodies, "Detective Stories Gone Wrong -- The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs," offered under Barr's pen name "Luke Sharp," and again illustrated by Geo. Hutchinson. (The spoof -- now better known as "The Great Pegram Mystery" -- was continued a decade later in another Barr story, "The Adventure of the Second Swag" (1904). Despite those jibes at the growing Holmes phenomenon, Barr remained on good terms with Conan Doyle. In "Memories and Adventures," a serial memoir published 1923-24, Doyle described Barr as "a volcanic Anglo- or rather Scot-American, with a violent manner, a wealth of strong adjectives, and one of the kindest natures underneath it all.") 724 pp. Here reduced from $170.

Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.

Twain, Mark. THE AMERICAN CLAIMANT. Chatto & Windus, London, 1892.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Description: First UK edition. Ads dated May 1892, versus October 1892 - which is when it was published. Illustrated by Dan Beard and Hal Hurst. Prelims and page edges lightly foxed, spine faded and covers lightly soiled, otherwise good to very good with small, bookstore blindstamp on endpaper.

Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.

(Twain, Mark) [Clemens, Samuel L.]. The American Claimant. Chatto & Windus, London, 1892.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Description: First English edition. Illustrated by Dan Beard and Hal Hurst. 258 pp. Includes May, 1892 ads. 1 vols. 8vo. BAL3434n; McBride 135 Original red decorated cloth, some fading, staining and soiling, short tears about spine, 32 pages publisher's advertisements dated May 1892, some spotting, mostly at front and back. A good copy Illustrated by Dan Beard and Hal Hurst. 258 pp. Includes May, 1892 ads. 1 vols. 8vo

Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.

Twain, Mark [Samuel Clemens]. THE AMERICAN CLAIMANT. Chatto & Windus, London, 1892.

Price: US$80.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, 258 pages. In Good condition. Bound in red cloth with gilt and black lettering and black stamped images. Boards show cocking to spine. bumping to corners, sunning to spine, and mild edge wear and shelfwear. Textblock has light age toning, foxing to pages, splitting between pages 160 and 161 and between pages 192 and 193, and partial splitting to rear interior hinge. Shelved Room A. BAL 3434. 1372575. Special Collections.

Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.

Mark Twain. The American Claimant. Chatto & Windus, 1892.

Price: US$85.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: "The American Claimant" by Mark Twain CHatto & Windus, London - 1892 first UK edition - 259p + ads dated May 1892 - condition: goo, some wear and rubbing to boards and spine, name on ffep, complete. The American Claimant is an 1892 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. Twain wrote the novel with the help of phonographic dictation,[2] the first author (according to Twain himself) to do so.[3] This was also (according to Twain) an attempt to write a book without mention of the weather, the first of its kind in fictitious literature (although the first sentence of the second paragraph references weather: "fine, breezy morning"). Indeed, all the weather is contained in an appendix, at the back of the book, which the reader is encouraged to turn to from time to time.

Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands

Mark Twain. The American Claimant. Chatto & Windus, 1892.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: "The American Claimant" by Mark Twain CHatto & Windus, London - 1892 first UK edition - 259p + ads dated May 1892 - condition: goo, some wear and rubbing to boards and spine, name on ffep, complete. The American Claimant is an 1892 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. Twain wrote the novel with the help of phonographic dictation,[2] the first author (according to Twain himself) to do so.[3] This was also (according to Twain) an attempt to write a book without mention of the weather, the first of its kind in fictitious literature (although the first sentence of the second paragraph references weather: "fine, breezy morning"). Indeed, all the weather is contained in an appendix, at the back of the book, which the reader is encouraged to turn to from time to time.

Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands

Twain, Mark. THE AMERICAN CLAIMANT. Chatto & Windus, London, 1892.

Price: US$123.52 + shipping

Description: xi, [i blank], 258, 32 [pub. cat.dated May 1892] pp. 81 black and white text illustrations by Dan Beard and Hal Hurst. Original red cloth with the illustrations to the front board and spine. Spine darkened and worn to the head. Light W.H. Smith & Son embossed booksellers ticket to the front f.e.p. Half-title present with pencil notes dated 1893. Advert for Twain's books to the verso. Frontis. and title-page unmarked. Grubby crocked binding but an internally clean tight copy well worth re-binding or restoring. Size: 8vo

Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain). 1892 1st Edtn/May 1892 UK Edition THE AMERICAN CLAIMANT By Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) Illus. Dan Beard & Hal Hurst Good Mark Twain. Chatto and Windus, London, 1892.

Price: US$136.52 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Please email for Photographs or further information. Good - Adverts in rear state May 1892. Spine a little faded. Corners bumped. Edges spotted. Please see photos as part of condition report 1892 1st Edition May 1892, UK Edition THE AMERICAN CLAIMANT By Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". Illustrated By: Dan Beard & Hal Hurst Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: Chatto and Windus, London octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229),Pages 258 ISBN: The American Claimant is an 1892 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. Twain wrote the novel with the help of phonographic dictation,[2] the first author (according to Twain himself) to do so. The American Claimant is a comedy of mistaken identities and multiple role switches. Its cast of characters include an American enamored of British hereditary aristocracy and a British earl entranced by American democracy. Previous owner stamp Dr. E. W. F. Stiven (Surgeon), of Manor Lodge, Harrow-on-the-Hill. SKU: BTETM0002123 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg

Seller: Books That Expand The Mind, Margate, KENT, United Kingdom

Twain, Mark. The American Claimant. Chatto & Windus, 1892.

Price: US$143.02 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: With illustrations by Dan Beard and Hal Hurst. Red illustrated cloth. Spine little darkened. Nice copy. Advertisements dated May 1892.

Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom

Twain, Mark. THE AMERICAN CLAIMANT. Chatto & Windus, London, 1892.

Price: US$143.02 + shipping

Description: xi, [i blank], 258,[ii],32 pub. ads May 1892. with 81 illustrations by Dan Beard and Hal Hurst. Half-title page present and frontispiece, Original red cloth with black line illustrated cover and spine with gilt titles to the upper spine. Trifle sunned and rubbed to extremilties as often. Trifle crocked with fore-edge foxed. Pub. just after the US ist edition. Size: 8vo

Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom

Mark Twain. The American Claimant. Chatto & Windus, London, 1892.

Price: US$145.62 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The first UK edition of Mark Twain's humorous novel about mistaken identities. The first UK edition of this work, published in the same year as the US first edition.This humorous novel about mistaken identities and multiple role switches is thought to be one of the first works written with the help of phonographic dictation.With a frontispiece and eighty-one illustrations by Dan Beard and Hal Hurst.With a thirty-two page publisher's catalogue to the rear, dated May 1982.With the bookplate of D.B. Anderson to the front pastedown.A wonderful first edition from the man William Faulkner termed 'the father of American literature'. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with fading to back strip. Front hinge strained, but firmly held. Lacking front free endpaper. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, generally firmly bound, but with first gathering working loose. Pages clean and bright. Very Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens). The American Claimant. Chatto and Windus London, 1892.

Price: US$165.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Ist British Edition, slightly cocked, shows minor wear, 81 illust. by Dan Beard and Hal Hurst, May 1892 Catalogue Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng

Seller: Ian Thompson, Milton, ON, Canada

TWAIN, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens).. The American Claimant.. Chatto & Windus, London., 1892.

Price: US$227.53 + shipping

Description: First U.K. edition. Octavo. pp xii, 258, 32 (catalogue dated "May, 1892"). Illustrated by Dan Beard and Hal Hurst. Original red pictorial cloth stamped in black, lettered in gilt in spine.Spine a little faded. Corners bumped. Edges spotted. Very good.

Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom

. The Idler Magazine. Chatto & Windus, London, 1892.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: (Mark Twain) The Idler Magazine. / An Illustrated Monthly./ Vol I. / February to July 1892 (INCLUDING FIRST PUBLICATION OF THE FIRST SHERLOCK HOLMES PARODY, ROBERT BARR'S 'ADVENTURES OF SHERLAW KOMBS,' ALSO KNOWN AS 'THE GREAT PEGRAM MYSTERY,' AS WELL AS MARK TWAIN'S 'THE AMERICAN CLAIMANT' AND BRET HARTE'S 'THE CONSPIRACY OF MRS. BUNKER') Edited by Jerome K. Jerome & Robert Barr. Publisher: Chatto and Windus, London, (1892). Illustrations by George Hutchinson, Hal Hurst, Irving Montagu, Lascelels, and others. First Edition. Bound volume of the first six issues of Robert Barr's London-based monthly humor magazine. Binding is in very good condition, vellum spine with aging and some splitting at the gutter, but solidly bound. Boards are dark brown. Contents clean. 6 x 8 ½ inches. 724 pages. Index in front. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #C-164. Price: $300. Includes the first six installments of Mark Twain's "The American Claimant" (though not through the end -- illustrated by Hal Hurst); Bret Harte's "The Conspiracy of Mrs. Bunker" (complete -- illustrated by Geo. Hutchinson); Andrew Lang's "Enchanted Cigarettes" (illustrated by Lascelles); Conan Doyle's "Glamour of the Arctic" and "De Profundis"; interviews with Mark Twain and Bret Harte; and several pieces by Eden Philpotts,

Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.