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Various. THEIR HUSBANDS' WIVES HARPER'S NOVELETTES. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1906.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: (1906). Edited by William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden. Contains: Eve's Diary, Mark Twain; Covered Embers, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; Life's Accolade, Abby Meguire Roach; The Bond, Emery Pottle; The Eyes of Affection, George Hibbard; and The Marriage Question, Grace Ellery Channing. Spine darkened; corners bumped; two light spots on front cover. Good plus. (048)
Seller: Colorado Pioneer Books, Centennial, CO, U.S.A.
Twain, (Mark). Eve's Diary. Harper brothers, London, 1906.
Price: US$23.15 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: one loose page Size: Octavo . rubbed and worn. Moderately foxed throughout. soiled covers. Category: Fiction; 1900-1920; For further information on this title, click on the "Ask Bookseller a Question" button directly underneath this listing. We will try to reply within two working days. Buyers from OUTSIDE of the UK are strongly recommended to make contact, to ask for an accurate shipping cost, BEFORE buying.
Seller: The Petersfield Bookshop, ABA, ILAB, Petersfield, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: 181p. A small hardcover book bound in red cloth. Very good condition. Spine faded and boards faintly soiled; otherwise clean and tight. Contains "Eve's Diary" by Mark Twain, "Covered Embers" by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, "The Marriage Question" by Grace Ellery Channing, and a few more short works. Measures approx. 7" x 4.6"
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.73 + shipping
Description: Black and White illustrations by Lester Ralph. Very Good, without dust jacket. No owner's markings.
Seller: Much Ado Books, Alfriston, SUSSE, United Kingdom
Twain, Mark. Eve's Diary. Harper & Bros, London and New York, 1906.
Price: US$39.95 + shipping
Description: Some rubbing, corner bumping and edgewear, covers are somewhat dirty. Text has yellowed severely, binding is shaken, has some foxing, pencil markings on front free and pastedown, and back two free papers Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
Various. THEIR HUSBANDS' WIVES HARPER'S NOVELETTES. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1906.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: (1906). Edited by William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden. Contains: Eve's Diary, Mark Twain; Covered Embers, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; Life's Accolade, Abby Meguire Roach; The Bond, Emery Pottle; The Eyes of Affection, George Hibbard; and The Marriage Question, Grace Ellery Channing. Spine shifted and faded; red grease pencil '40' on front free endpaper. Very good. (090)
Seller: Colorado Pioneer Books, Centennial, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.02 + shipping
Description: 8vo (20.6x13.5cm), hardback, 109pp. Good condition given age. No dustwrapper. Red cloth with black drawing of tree and apple at front, white lettering. General wear, bumped, spine very faded and dull, some flecking to right front and to rear, age-toned and foxed, a bit grubby, 11x 6.5cm b&w illustrations on left opposite text throughout. Age-toned and grubby page edges, foxed, bookseller's label at front pastedown. Contents clear and legible. Pictures available on request.
Seller: City Basement Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 12mo. Decorative green cloth stamped in two-tone gilt. Spine faded, soiled and slightly cocked, gutter cracked, still a very good copy. Single volume containing: *Eve's Diary* by Mark Twain, * Covered Embers* by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, *Life's Accolade* by Abby Meguire Roach, *The Bond* by Emery Pottle, *The Eyes of Affection* by George Hibbard, and *The Marriage Questions* by Grace Ellery Channing.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. Eve's Diary. London/NY Harper 1906., 1906.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: G. What if Eve had written a diary? Tape at inner edge of first page, tape marks next page, damp stain bottom corner. Eve explains she feels like an experiment as she tries to remember when she was born. Red binding with green tree & apple on ft cover, spine faded & fading to edges, some marks on ft cover, owner name pencil. Illustrated by Lester Ralph.
Seller: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, U.S.A.
mark twain. eve's diary. harper & brothers, london new york, 1906.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Red with apple and apple tree on cover. Letters on spine faded. 1906 in roman numerials on title page, published June 1906 on copyright page. no dot after MS. Owners name and address otherwise unmarked. A few pages loose. Some edge wear.
Seller: broken wing books, blaine, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-10] [1-2] 3-109 [110-118: blank] [note: first and last leaves used as paste-downs], illustrations by Lester Ralph, publisher's pictorial red cloth, front panel stamped in white and green, spine panel stamped in white. First separate edition. Published earlier in the anthology THEIR HUSBANDS' WIVES (1906). See Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-344. Bleiler (1978), p. 196. Reginald 14358. BAL 3489 (state with period after MS on title page). Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 T-432. This copy has a Christmas 1906 gift inscription on the front free endpaper, so it is probably an early copy. Cloth soiled and spotted, some finger marking to several leaves, a sound, ugly reading copy. (#172230)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: A green cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Edges lightly rubbed and foredges a bit rough-looking. The number 112 is handwritten on the spine. Bottom corner of first plate is torn off. Otherwise, pages clean and binding secure. This volume is bound with a built-in section divider --- a multi-pronged metal comb with strips running down the gutter every hundred or so pages. A bound volume of HARPER'S containing all issues from December 1905 through May 1906. Includes works by Mark Twain ("Eve's Diary"), Howard Pyle ("The Fate of a Treasure-Town"), and Booth Tarkington ("The Conquest of Canaan"), plus parts 5-7 of THE SLAVE TRADE OF TODAY by Henry W. Nevinson. Illustrated with lots of color plates.
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$51.75 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Octavo, hardcover, 109pp, name on inside cover, corners lightly worn, back board has stains, spine sunned else interior VG , no inscriptions, red cloth pictorial boards with green tree & apple on cover, . . No dust jacket. line drawings every other page by Lester Ralph.
Seller: Virginia Martin, aka bookwitch, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
Mark Twain. Eve's Diary. Harper & Brothers, 1906.
Price: US$55.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "Eve's Diary" is a comic short story by Mark Twain. It was first published in the 1905 Christmas issue of the magazine Harper's Bazaar, in book format as one contribution to a volume entitled "Their Husband's Wives" and then in June 1906 as a standalone book by Harper and Brothers[1] publishing house. Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Red with apple and apple tree on cover. Letters on spine faded. 1906 in roman numerials on title page, published June 1906 on copyright page. no dot after MS. Owners name and address otherwise unmarked. A few pages loose. Some edge wear. Photos available by request. International customers will be charged actual shipping costs.
Seller: Bergen Book Studio, Hillsdale, NJ, U.S.A.
Mark Twain, Lester Ralph (Illustrator). Eve's Diary. Harper, 1906.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. No dust jacket. Spine is severely sun stained, lettering is faint. Binding and jonts function well. Large pen inscription on front endpaper, but endpapers otherwise unmarked. Pages and signatures are unmarked with minor creases at the bottom corner of first few pages, some staining on pages throughout. Letter print and block prints are clear and unsmeared.
Seller: Copperfield's Used and Rare Books, Petaluma, CA, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark.. Eve`s Diary. Translated from the original ms.. New York Harper & Broth, 1906.
Price: US$74.71 + shipping
Description: 8°, Front., zahlr. Illustr. v. Lester Ralph, 2 Bl., 107 S., 3 Bl., farb. ill. Olwd. Rücken etwas lichtsch., Ecken leicht gestaucht. Ansonsten schönes Ex. + + + Achtung: Für unsere Kunden in Deutschland erfolgt der Versand in der Regel verzollt vierzehntäglich ab Deutschland. + Bankverbindung in Deutschland vorhanden. + Bitte fragen Sie uns an. Danke + + +
Seller: Antiquariat Viarius, Frauenfeld, Switzerland
Twain, Mark. The Private Life of Adam and Eve. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1906.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: NY, Harper & Brothers; copyright 1906, but first printed in 1931. 1st edition stated, date not indicated aside from E-F date code - May 1931. Original blue cloth spine and pictorial decorated blue paper boards. Gold paper title label at spined vertically cracked, rubbed and only partially legible. Binding sound, but soewhat loose. Corners of boards bruised, more so at upper corners. Boards showing through rub at tips. Cloth thin and weak at spine ends. Prior owner's attractive bookplate inside front cover. Cloth worn and thinning along rear spine edge. A worn example of this uncommon Twain title, scarcer still in the first book printing. Good only; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 197 pages; NY, Harper & Brothers; copyright 1906, but first printed in 1931. 1st edition stated, date not indicated aside from E-F date code - May 1931. Original blue cloth spine and pictorial decorated blue paper boards. Gold paper title label at spined vertically cracked, rubbed and only partially legible. Binding shaken but still sound. Corners of boards bruised, more so at upper corners. Boards showing through rub and abrasion at tips. Cloth thin and weak at spine ends. Periodic red pencil enclosures of text, elisons and occasional underlines. A sort of calendar in red pencil to the terminal printed page. Prior owner's attractive bookplate inside front cover. Cloth worn and thinning over the rear spine edge. A rather worn and tired example of this uncommon Twain title, scarcer still in the first combined book printing. Fair to Good only. As is
Seller: DogStar Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: (1906). 181 pages, red cloth, spine stamped in gilt, 7 x 4.5". Very good. This is the first book appearance of Mark Twain's "Eve's Diary", one of six stories contained in the book. BAL 3488.
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
TWAIN, Mark. Eve?s Diary. Harper & Brothers, London and New York, 1906.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, octavo, original red cloth over boards, green, black and cream stamped designs and lettering on front cover, cream stamped lettering on spine, illustrated frontispiece. Black and white illustrations from Lester Ralph throughout, translated from the original manuscript. Very Good; some fading to cream stamping, some discoloration to cloth, previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$90.05 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A smart first edition of this illustrated comic short story from Mark Twain. First edition in book form. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifty-four full page images. Collated complete. A comic short story written in the style of a diary kept by the first woman in the biblical creation myth, Eve. Claimed to be "translated from the original MS" the plot is the first-person account of Eve from her creation up to her burial by her mate Adam. Written by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, an American writer, humorist, essayist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer. Illustrated by Lester Ralph, an American artist and illustrator. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities. Fading to the spine and board edges with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot. Ink stamp to the front endpaper. Newspaper clippings pasted to the front pastedown and the last page. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover. Sm 8vo (8" x 5.5."), gilt red cloth. Frontis. port., [i-viii], 523 pp., b&w illus. throughout. CONDITION: Very good, covers with small scratches and minimal fading, spine sunned, light soiling along bottom edge of text-block. First edition, second state, with "a boxed advertisement on the copyright page," and "error were for where" on p. 18, line 9. This collection, named after its eponymous title-story, also contains "A Dog's Tale," "was it Heaven? Or Hell?." "Extracts from Adam's Diary," and "Eve's Diary." The title-story proved to be the longest piece of fiction that Twain completed and published during his twilight years. BAL 3492. Rasmusen, R. Kent. Mark Twain A to Z (New York, 1995), p. 456.
Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. Eve's Diary. Harper, London and NY, 1906.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Red-orange cloth cover. Green depiction of a tree and apple on front cover. No dust jacket. White title and author's name on front cover and spine. Detailed black-and white pictures on every other page to go with each "entry". Pages are very slightly foxed.
Seller: Pleasant Street Books, woodstock, VT, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark.. EVE'S DIARY.. Harper & Bros.: NY and London, 1906.
Price: US$339.25 + shipping
Description: Illustr by Lester Ralph; 8 x 5. 109 pp, vg. FINELY BOUND BY BAYNTUN- RIVIERE IN FULL CRUSHED BROWN MOROCCO, GILT STAMPED SPINE, ALL EDGES GILT, MARBLED END PAPERS. FIRST EDITION. A beautiful copy.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. Eve's Diary. Harper and Brothers, 1906.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: red decorated binding. Publishing June 1906. lightly rubbed cover and spine edges, lightly faded spine
Seller: RP BOOKS, Newport, NH, U.S.A.
Mark Twain. EVE'S DIARY. Harper & Brothers, London, 1906.
Price: US$499.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good in boards. Owner bookplate, printed stamp on front pastedown. Hinges repaired.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Mark Twain. Eve's Diary. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1906.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Eve's Diary". Published by Harper & Brothers in 1906. Measures 8-¼" x 5-¼". First edition, first state with the year in Roman numerals (MCMVI) on the title page and with Published June, 1906 on the copyright page (BAL 3489). Very good plus condition in the publisher's original red pictorial cloth with white titling. Minor sun-fading to the spine and minor wear to the white lettering. The interior is fresh and well-preserved, with no previous ownership marks. Small stain to the fore-edge of the textblock. With a rare original early printing dust jacket, dating from at least 1909 - since rear flap advertises the publishing of "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven". The dust jacket is in good condition. Chipping and tape repairs at the spine ends. Edgwear and minor chipping to the top and bottom of the front panel and the right upper spine edge. Some moisture damage visible on the right half of the front panel and the top of the front flap. Though the jacket has significant condition issues, it remains difficult to find in any condition. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. EVE'S DIARY; TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL MS.. Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1906.
Price: US$4555.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Vintage Hardcover with scarce original DJ, First Edition 1906 Harper & Brothers Publishers New York 109 pages. Very Good+, in a Good DJ. Minor shelf/edge wear to publisher's original bright red pictorial cloth with white titles - corners bumped. Tiny shelf lean. With 55 B&W illustrations by Lester Ralph. Tissue guard for the frontispiece is undamaged and still white. First Edition, first state with the year in Roman numerals (MCMVI) on the title page and with Published June, 1906 on the copyright page. Moderate shelf/edge wear, dust soiling and two chips missing (top of spine, does not affect title and the rear panel next to it - see photos to come) from original and very scarce DJ - now in mylar with a paper backing. DJ is the original and is dated to an ad on the rear panel for 3 other Mark Twain books - Men and Things, Women and Things, and The Primrose Way which were all published in 1906. Previous owner name (J.A. Kimmel Findlay, OH) on inside front cover. I believe that this book belonged to Dr. Jacob Anthony Kimmel of Findley, OH. a very interesting man. Dr. Kimmell served in the Civil War for two years after enrolling on February 16, 1863. According to the 1890 Veterans Schedule, he developed rheumatism and "organic heart disease" . Once he returned home, he started studying medicine. He was also elected to the Ohio legislature in 1895. Interestingly, Dr. Kimmell understood the importance of documenting history and wrote the book History of Findlay in 1910. Very scarce Twain title. A very handsome First Edition in the original DJ.LOC SS-FB-03
Seller: Eyebrowse Books, MWABA, Dearborn, MI, U.S.A.