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Price: US$12.72 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 121 pages. No clear publication date but copyright date of 1909 on back of title page. White lettering to front boards (some of which has been rubbed away) + picture of man on machine (also slightly rubbed). Spine has no lettering or decoration. Red boards slightly age-darkened around edges but otherwise clean. Slight wear to spine-ends and corners. Ink name and date of 1920 on ffep. Page-edges moderately age-yellowed. Internally very clean and tidy.
Seller: Sarah Zaluckyj, KINGTON, United Kingdom
Twain, Mark. Extract From Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven. Harper & Brothers, NY, 1909.
Price: US$14.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Slightly soiled endpages, else textblock is clean and tight. Sunned spine, lightly soiled covers, bumping to head and foot of spine, lightly bumped corners, worn edges; Color stamped illustration on front cover. Lacks dust jacket; 121p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Clausen Books, RMABA, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit in Heaven. Harper & Bros Pub, NY, 1909.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good (Cover is faded)
Seller: Pepper's Old Books, Hanson, KY, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven. Harper & Bros, New York, 1909.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Frontis. tissue has pencil outline. Owner's stamp fr endpaper & inkedname verso fr cover. Some general wear Albert Levering frontispiece. good+, no dj, pictorial red cloth, spine lettering rubbed 121 pgs
Seller: Gil's Book Loft, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.30 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 120p. Gilt-flecked paper over black cloth. Light wear to extremities. Cover faded. Small chip to spine label.
Seller: Jeffrey Blake, Willow Grove, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$17.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Spine sunned. Pages clean and tight. No library markings. No foxing. Folio 121 unnumbered. ffep is missing but there is a free page before the frontispiece which has the tissue guard intact. No publisher's code letters or "October" under date on copyright page. No Roman numerals on TP. Red cloth. Spine slightly bumped at top and bottom. Over all a nice clean and tight copy. No names or inscriptions. No stains. Front board illustrated with Stormfield piloting his spaceship to heaven. See our photo.
Seller: Lee Booksellers, Lincoln, NE, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. Extract From Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven. Harper and Brothers 1909, 1909.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: first edition ed. hardback good condition or less in red cloth with no dust jacket, book is worn and bumped and somewhat soiled with a sunned spine. shipping via USPS
Seller: Wonderland Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Harper and Brothers, Mark Twain Company, 1909. 8vo. Red fabric hardcover, with an image of Captain Stormfield on a rocket ship embossed in the center. Missing dust jacket. The condition of the book is Good (edges are worn and fraying, the text block is dust soiled and aged, the binding is cracking, the spine is faded). 121pp.
Seller: Page 1 Books - Special Collection Room, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Twain, (Mark). Extract From Captain Stormfield's Visit To Heaven. Harper, London, 1909.
Price: US$20.35 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Decorative boards, Illustrated This is the first UK edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Bookplate to Endpaper. worn spine. Moderately foxed throughout. slight wear to covers. Category: Children; Britain/UK; 1900-1920; For further info 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
TWAIN, MARK. Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven. Harper & Brothers 1909, 1909.
Price: US$22.87 + shipping
Description: Octavo, red cloth boards with yellow lettering & coloured design to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, 121pp, VG (fading & soiling to spine, brusing to spine extrems, rubbing to boards, owner's name in pencil to front pastedown, tissue guard almost loose, foxing throughout, tanning to page edges, occasional underlining in pencil)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Twain, Mark. Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven. NY Harper & Bros 1909., 1909.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: Fair. Cover, spine, and corners worn. Owner's inscription, pasted-in decorations, bookseller label. Illustrated by B&W sketch by A. Levering. Uniform Editio.
Seller: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, U.S.A.
TWAIN, Mark.. Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven.. Harper & Brothers,, NY:, 1909.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: An early printing. A bit faded along the spine, else very good in red cloth. No dust jacket.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
TWAIN Mark.. Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven.. , 1909.
Price: US$26.58 + shipping
Description: New York: Harper & Brothers 1909. 8vo. Or.illust.cl. VI122pp. With sepia frontisp. 1st ed.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Price: US$28.53 + shipping
Description: With frontispiece, 120 p. Very fine copy. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 0
Seller: Buch & Cafe Antiquarius, Bonn, NRW, Germany
Price: US$31.80 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Harper & Brothers, 1909 US FIRST EDITION pp.[iv]+121 Original red cloth. Cloth sunned on backstrip, lettered in white. Frontboard lettered in white. Coloured vignette of the eponymous captain steering his flying machine through the ephemris (!) Tissue guarded black and white frontispiece by Albert Levering, reproduced on the frontboard. Small private library label on front free pastedown endpaper. Light spotting to endpapers.
Seller: Draycott Books, Chipping Campden, GLOS, United Kingdom
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Red with white lettering, pictorial cover with no fading. Lettering on spine has a couple of letters that are partially missing.First 15 pages have damp stain on bottom corner.
Seller: broken wing books, blaine, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: 121p., frontispiece. 21cm. BAL 3511 Very good condition, spine faded
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-120 [121] [122: blank], inserted frontispiece with illustration by Albert Levering, original pictorial red cloth, front panel stamped in black, blue and white, spine panel stamped in white. First edition. "Satirical fantasy of the afterlife which mocks the follies of religious fundamentalism and the absurdities which figure in popular images of paradise." - Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-343. An expanded version was published in REPORT FROM PARADISE (New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1952). Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1613. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Bleiler (1978), p. 196. Reginald 14359. BAL 3511. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 T-433. Cloth worn and spotted, text block shaken, a sound reading copy. (#172253)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1909.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: GOOD: Good Copy of the 1909 First Edition. Text block has scattered spotting and former owner's gift inscription is on inside front end paper. Red cloth covers have some soling and wear. Location: V28
Seller: From Away Books & Antiques, Greenville, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$44.87 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Some dulling down to the spine and darkening to the boards. Rubbing to board edges. Moderate foxing throughout. A good budget conscious first edition. Inserted black & white frontispiece illustration by Albert Levering. States published October 1909
Seller: The Secret Bookshop, Tararua, New Zealand
MARK TWAIN. EXTRACT FROM CAPTAIN STORMFIELD'S VISIT HEAVEN. Harper and Brothers, 1909.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: LOOKS TO BE A 1ST EDITION--LAST STORY PUBLISHED BY TWAIN IN HIS LIFE.
Seller: Smokey, York, NE, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. EXTRACTS FROM CAPTAIN STORMFIELD'S VISIT TO HEAVEN. , 1909.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: NY 1909 first edition (October 1909) Harper. Hardcover. Small octavo, 121pp., frontis illustration, clever comic illustration on front cover of captain flying a weird airplane, red cloth. Good, lettering on front cover is mostly worn off, some tears and wear on spine ends, corners a bit worn and lightly bumped, cover a bit soiled. Last book of Twain's printed before his death.
Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: New York, NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers. G/No Dustjacket. 1909. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo., 121 pp., cover rubbed, spine faded, page yellowing, inside hinge cracked, water stain on cover .
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. Extract From Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1909.
Price: US$46.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1909, 1909. Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 121 pages with tissue guarded frontispiece illustrated by Albert Levering. Octavo (8" x 5/12") bound in publisher's red cloth with cream lettering to spine (barely discernible) and cover, pictorial cover of a sea captain riding a spherical rocket ship through space done in black, grays and white. (BAL 3511; McBride 234) First American edition. Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven is a short story that appeared in print in Harper's Magazine in December 1907 and January 1908, and was published in book form with some revisions in 1909. Captain Stormfield was inspired by Captain Edgar Wakeman, a sea captain Twain met in 1866; Wakeman's eccentric character and personality made a tremendous impact on the young man, and he is the model for several Twain characters besides Stormfield; Wakeman's retelling of a dream he had in which he visited heaven was the source for the story. Originally written in 1868, the year Twain heard about Wakeman's dream, the story went unpublished over the next three decades, with slight changes made by the author during that period. Twain's vision of Heaven, and the journey required to get there, subverts most of the traditional Christian views of the place. Corners bumped, spine soiled and sunned, head and tail fraying, previous owner's name in neat ink script on front end papers. End papers show some soiling; with the exception of a good smudge at p 109 text block shows just moderate occassional soiling. No dust jacket.
Seller: Douglas Park Media, Brunswick, ME, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. Extract From Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1909.
Price: US$48.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a first edition with MCMIX on the title page, missing the dust jacket. It was the last story Twain published during his life and had been previously published in Harper's Magazine in December 1907 and January 1908. The red boards feature an illustration of Stormfield on his spaceship and there is the frontispiece illustration by Albert Levering with tissue guard. The boards are scuffed and the spine faded, corners are bumped, back gutter pulled. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 121 pages
Seller: The Ridge Books, Calhoun, GA, U.S.A.
TWAIN, MARK. EXTRACT FROM CAPTAIN STORMFIELDS VISIT TO HEAVEN. HARPER & BRO., NY, 1909.
Price: US$49.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: PICTORIAL BOARDS.
Seller: Gian Luigi Fine Books, albany, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$49.38 + shipping
Description: A good plus copy in the original title-blocked and pictorial cloth. Pictorial is worn. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling, with minor rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Internally fine. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 120 pages; Description: 120 p. : 1 ill. ; 21 cm. Subjects: Ship captains --Fiction. Voyages, Imaginary. Heaven --Fiction. Twain, Mark 1835-1910. Form/Genre: Religious fiction. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Twain, Mark. Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit in Heaven. Harper & Brothers, 1909.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Harper & Brothers, 1909. Early printing, not first edition. Orange boards with pictorial front and delightful frontispiece illustration of Captain Stormfield on his way.Front board lettering and illustration rubbed, and chipped. No lettering on spine. Condition is fair to good. Ad for the "Uniform Edition" of Mark Twain on copyright page. Delightful circular booksellers mark for "The Wayfarer's Book Shop Books are Gates to Lands of Pleasure", attached at inside lower front board. No other former owner marks.
Seller: Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1909.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Clean red buckram boards with white titles sharp and shiny to front, chipping and fading to spine. Image of Captain Stormfield to front board is sharp and complete. Corners remain sharp and hinges firm and solid. Light tanning and foxing to edges. P/O names in light pencil to FFEP o/w clean, unmarked. Handsome copy.
Seller: Bookplate, Chestertown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$52.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 121p., frontispiece. 21cm. BAL 3511
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. EXTRACT FROM CAPTAIN STORMFIELD'S VISIT IN HEAVEN. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1909.
Price: US$56.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo; 121 pages; Very minor rubbing and wear to covers. Gift inscription on 2nd free endpaper. Just a touch of fading to spine.
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$57.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION. HARDBACK BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING, FRONTIS ILLUSTRATION. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 8 x 5 INCHES WITH 121 PAGES. SLIGHT FADING TO CLOTH SPINE WITH TEXT TO SPINE DULLED, FEW MINOR MARKS TO BOARDS MOSTLY ON REAR BOARD, CORNERS BUMPED, OCCASIONAL LIGHT FOXING TO PAGES, PENCIL NAME & DATE TO HALF TITLE. OVERALL A VERY GOOD COPY. EXTRA POSTAGE MAY APPLY FOR OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS ARE POSTED IN A STURDY BOOK BOX.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Twain, Mark. EXTRACT FROM CAPTAIN STORMFIELD'S VISIT TO HEAVEN. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1909.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 121 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in publisher's illustrated red cloth with white lettering to spine. Heavy fading to text and sunning on spine. Moderate rubbing and wear to edges, corners, head and tail of spine. Light scuffing and staining. Bookplate on front pastedown reading "Frank Fuller Murdock His Book." Mild staining and foxing to front free endpaper and pastedown. Light age toning throughout. Shelved in Case 13. BAL 3511. 1376283. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. pictorial red cloth, discrete name rubber-stamped on endpaper. From Twain's dark period. [BAL 3511]., Illustrated by Albert Levering.
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$63.60 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Full red cloth, titled in white, with a pictorial device in blue and white superimposed on the front (unusually, this is in excellent condition). Spine rather faded, one or two slight spots to endpapers. A very good copy. The last book to be published in the author's lifetime.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$64.00 + shipping
Description: A good plus copy in the original title-blocked and pictorial cloth. Pictorial is worn. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling, with minor rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Internally fine. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 120 pages; Description: 120 p. : 1 ill. ; 21 cm. Subjects: Ship captains --Fiction. Voyages, Imaginary. Heaven --Fiction. Twain, Mark 1835-1910. Form/Genre: Religious fiction. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 121 p. + Fantastic frontis showing image of the sea captain riding a spherical rocket ship through space. 8vo. Original full red pictorial cloth binding, decorated with an image similar to the frontis . Though the binding shows some slight wear, this is an extremely well preserved copy. Released in October 1909, Captain Stormfield was the last book Mark Twain published in his lifetime. Twain had worked on the story over a period of almost 40 years. RW70 Language: eng
Seller: FAMILY ALBUM, Kinzers, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-120 [121] [122: blank], inserted frontispiece with illustration by Albert Levering, original pictorial red cloth, front panel stamped in black, blue and white, spine panel stamped in white. First edition. "Satirical fantasy of the afterlife which mocks the follies of religious fundamentalism and the absurdities which figure in popular images of paradise." - Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-343. An expanded version was published in REPORT FROM PARADISE (New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1952). Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1613. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Bleiler (1978), p. 196. Reginald 14359. BAL 3511. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 T-433. Cloth lightly rubbed at head and tail of spine panel and corner tips, lettering on spine panel mostly perished, else a very good copy. (#137564)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$84.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hard Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. HB NO DJ Issued, red decorated cloth with minor rub & spine sunned, 1st edition, 1909,Early issue, IN FRONT OF BOOK LIST OF TITLES INCLUDES THIS BK AT $1, minor fox, VG+/VG, AS-IS, NODJ,Full red cloth with blue & white illustration of the captain on a makeshift space-craft on front cover, white lettering on spine. FADED OFF SHORT STORY Follows Captain Stormfield on his extremely long cosmic journey to heaven, his accidental misplacement, his short-lived interest in singing and playing the harp, and the obsession of souls with the "celebrities" of heaven, like Adam and Moses
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven. Harper & Brothers, 1909.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Red cloth with embossed illustration of Captain saddled on spaceship, micronick at top front tip, light image of stain at bottom back. Near Fine copy.
Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. Extract From Captain Stormfield's Visit To Heaven. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1909.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: B&W Illustration; The revised larger edition. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing with MCMIX on title page and Published October 1909 on the copyright page, one of three variants (9/16ths inch thick) , not second state, as no C-F on the copyright page. (BAL 3511, Vol. 2). The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some lightish bumping and rubbing, along with some beginning fraying and nicking. The cloth on the spine of the book has some fading, and light rubbing to the lettering. The illustration on the front cover of the book is in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name and date on the front endpaper, and a previous owner's (LeRoy V. Brandt) bookplate on the front pastedown page. "The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his decades long cosmic journey to Heaven; his accidental misplacement after racing a comet; his short-lived interest in singing and playing the harp (generated by his preconceptions of heaven) ; and the general obsession of souls with the celebrities of Heaven such as Adam, Moses, and Elijah, who according to Twain become as distant to most people in Heaven as living celebrities are on Earth. Twain uses this story to show his view that the common conception of Heaven is ludicrous, and points out the incongruities of such beliefs with his characteristic adroit usage of hyperbole. " (from Wikipedia)
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
Mark Twain. Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven. Harper and 'Brothers New York, 1909.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: minor wear and fading on front boards,ills Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng
Seller: Ian Thompson, Milton, ON, Canada
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 5 1/4 inches x 8 1/4 in., inserted black & white frontispiece illustration by Albert Levering (1869-1929), with tissue guards; title-page with Harper's device, half-title. [4]pp., pp. 1-[121]. Paper bulk: 1/2 in. Red cloth with titling in white on spine and front cover, and design in blue, black and white on the front cover. The white lettering on the spine is mostly worn away, dusting to spine, cover margins, front inner hinge shows a light crack, tan stain to pp. 66-67. BAL 3511; Volume 2, p. 220.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$104.00 + shipping
Description: BAL 3511. Johnson p. 91. The story, which Twain wrote years before its publication, originally appeared in Harper's Magazine, December 1907 and January 1908. Near fine copy (spine faded). [6], 120, [1] pages. Red cloth hard cover, pictorial stamp in blue, black and white, front cover and spine lettered in white.
Seller: BookMine, Fair Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1909.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. [vi], 121 pp. Original red cloth with white and blue lettering and illustration. A Very Good+ copy, lacking the dust jacket. Spine a bit sunned, back cloth a little stained with a very faint cup ring, gift inscription on front free endpaper, small stain to p. 31 and facing page, closed tear to tissue guard at front. Mark Twain's final book to be published during his lifetime.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION, first printing, first issue. October 1909, 121pp. , frontispiece illust. by Albert Levering. Full red cloth with blue & white illustration of the captain on a makeshift space-craft on front cover, white lettering on spine. The spine lettering has faded and is barely ledgible, front cover illustration and lettering still in excellent condition, paper bulks measures 5/8th of an inch, gift inscription, "Merry Chirstmas to Mr. HFS from the 'Woody's', Santa Monica Dec. 1909." Overall in VERY GOOD condition. Photos available upon request."Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven" is a short-story written by American writer Mark Twain and published in 1909. The story follows Captain Stormfield on his extremely long cosmic journey to heaven, his accidental misplacement, his short-lived interest in singing and playing the harp, and the obsession of souls with the "celebrities" of heaven, like Adam and Moses, whom, according to Twain, become as distant to most people in heaven as living celebrities are on Earth. Twain uses this story to show his view that the common conception of heaven is ludicrous and points out the incongruities of such beliefs. UncleAndy Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$132.00 + shipping
Description: Red cloth over boards. Embossed artwork in gray, blue, white. 121 p. 21 cm. B&W Frontispiece. A fuller version was posthumously published in 1952 as the 1st pt. of the author's Report from Paradise. Bound in red pictorial cloth. BAL notes copies in varying weights of paper. Text format, each page: 2.5 inch wide single column on each 5-inch wide page; 4.5 inches tall column on 8 inch height page (shorter on opening page). Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Near fine. Gift to "Mrs. Mary McCrillis, Christmas 1910, From F.W. Wilmarth". Newport NH resident. Spine titles: light sun-fade. First edition. Likely 1st. No print line. 1
Seller: Hedgehog's Whimsey BOOKS etc., Newport, NH, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven. Harper & Brothers, 1909.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover. 1909. First edition. Harper and Brothers. 121 pages Some fade and wear to spine, else Very Good condition. Owners name on endpaper. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 121 pages
Seller: Book Gallery // Mike Riley, Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.
Mark Twain. Extract From Captain Stormfield's Visit To Heaven. Harper & Brothers,, New York, 1909.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Other than discoloration to the last two pages due to a previously inserted clipping of some sort a lovely copy of a charming book with the lettering on the spine fully intact ! "Satirical fantasy of the afterlife which mocks the follies of religious fundamentalism and the absurdities which figure in popular images of paradise." - Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-343. An expanded version was published in REPORT FROM PARADISE (New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1952). Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1613. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Bleiler (1978), p. 196. Reginald 14359. BAL 3511. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 T-433.
Seller: Recycled, Corte Madera, CA, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven. Harper & Brothers, 1909.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original red designer cloth with the title character on the cover in black and white. Published as a Christmas gift book in October 1909, six months before Twain's death. Combining satire and science fiction, this is a funny and colorful commentary on human vanity and pretensions. Much of the humor rests on the sharp discrepancies between Stormfield's cocksure expectations of heaven and its reality. A bright, clean copy free of the usual chipping to the cover colors. Extremely scarce in this nice condition.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven. Harper and Brothers, 1909.
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Publishers red cloth with white titles an blue and white design.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. [4], 1-120, [2] pp. Bound in red cloth with a design of Captain Stormfield on his ship on front board, white lettering on the spine. With a black and white frontispiece illustrated by Albert Levering. BAL 3511. McBride 234. Moderate fading to the spine, an occasional pencil mark in the margins.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: frontis; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 121 pages; 1909 Harper & Brothers HC 1st edition and printing in book form. A very handsome and well preserved copy. Snugly bound in original red cloth with 3 color pictorial title design to cover and cream title lettering at spine. Tissue guarded frontis by Albert Levering. Corners and unrubbed; just superficial crimping to cloth at spine ends. Titles at spine perhaps a trifle dulled. Overall a much brighter and attractive copy than usually seen, especially so with regard to the color of the cover design and the lettering to the spine. VG++ to NF
Seller: DogStar Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover. 8vo (8.25" x 5.25"), pictorial red cloth. Frontis. by "Albert Levering," [i-vi], 121 pp. CONDITION: Near fine, minor wear at extremities, spine slightly sunned. First edition, first printing. This oft re-written and revised extract from Twain's much longer "Captain Stormfield" manuscript was a "blasphemous" stab at traditional Christian notions of Heaven. In a comic twist of fate, this was the last tale Twain published during his lifetime. BAL 3351. Rasmusen, R. Kent. Mark Twain A to Z (New York, 1995), p. 62.
Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-120 [121] [122: blank], inserted frontispiece with illustration by Albert Levering, original pictorial red cloth, front panel stamped in black, blue and white, spine panel stamped in white. First edition. "Satirical fantasy of the afterlife which mocks the follies of religious fundamentalism and the absurdities which figure in popular images of paradise." - Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-343. An expanded version was published in REPORT FROM PARADISE (New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1952). Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1613. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Bleiler (1978), p. 196. Reginald 14359. BAL 3511. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 T-433. Just a touch of the frequently encountered sunning to the spine panel, a bright, nearly fine copy with white enamel lettering on spine panel intact. Quite a nice copy. (#139999)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$270.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. Custom Clamshell Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case for Mark Twain's Classic: CAPTAIN STORMFIELD'S VISIT TO HEAVEN. A Superb Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is Gilt-stamped at the spine. The case is finished in black Nuba® with a 'sculpted' design of the amusing illustration of the Captain flying to heaven with red sides. Every TBCL case can be finished in a selection of fine leathers & cloths or Nuba® or a combination of both. Nuba® is a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck leather. This clamshell is perfectly sized to accommodate your first edition. A Terrific Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. TBCL Web Site photo/link available for OVER 100 generally in-stock titles. Custom Craft available upon request. "Book definitely NOT included" When you place your order: Please confirm the actual size of your first edition as sizes may vary with age or if the edition is covered in Mylar. The text can be altered to add "signed" or other special requests.Sized to fit: Dimensions: 8.25" x 5.33" x 0.8"
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Price: US$284.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HBDJ, 1909, 1st Edition ,SECOND STATE, (C-F) printing ON COPYRIGHT , SMALL Hardcover blue Illustrated boards with Edge Fade Stain & Black cloth at Spine & TIPS, Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: GOOD WITH FADING FOX SPOTS EDGES OF DJ, SMALL CHIP TOP & BTM Spine dj, . Albert Levering (illustrator). , Teal colored bds w/ gold flecking & black pict dec & lettering on cover, 3/4 BlueBOARDSw/ paper title block & red lettering on spine. Very scarce dustjacket sunned at spine & edges, w/ only light edgewear, now in archival grade Brodart. Dime-size white spot on lower friont cover of book. Very light staining to upper edge of first 3-4 pages. Blue-white & black Frontis illus by Albert Levering. 122pp ads. Square, straight, tight & clean except as noted, overall VG/VG cond. , his accidental misplacement, his short-lived interest in singing and playing the harp, and the obsession of souls with the "celebrities" of heaven, like Adam and Moses
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$287.50 + shipping
Description: Frontis, 7.5 x 5. 121 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.
Price: US$385.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. With an engraved frontispiece by Albert Levering. 8vo, publishers original bright red cloth lettered in white on the upper cover and spine, the upper cover pictorially decorated in white, black, blue and gray. 121 pp. A very good copy, the cloth is clean with minimal wear, internally very clean, the hinges tight and sound, the white titling on the spine panel has mellowed down. FIRST EDITION AND A WELL PRESERVED COPY This is the last of Twains books to be published during his lifetime. It is an amusing commentary on human vanity that satirically combines elements of science fiction with more traditional views of the afterlife.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
TWAIN, Mark. Extract from Captain Stormfields Visit to Heaven. Harper and Brothers, 1909.
Price: US$499.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1909 1ed MARK TWAINs Last Book Extract from Captain Stormfields Visit to Heaven Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven, the last of Mark Twains books published during his lifetime, was printed in the same red cloth that Harper used for many of Twains works. This book is Mark Twains vision of Heaven and the journey in which is required to get there. Even though this book undermines most Christian views of salvation, it still maintained a popular read. According to BAL, the size of the first printing is unknown, even though three varying sheet sizes exist. Item number: #41077 Price: $499 TWAIN, Mark Extract from Captain Stormfields Visit to Heaven New York; London: Harper and Brothers, ©1909. First Edition. Details: Collation: Complete o [4], 120, [2] o Illustrated frontispiece References: BAL 3511; Bleiler, pg. 196; McBride, pg. 234; Reginald 14359 o Copyright: Printed in the United States of America. Language: English Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure o Red cloth Size: ~8.25in X 5.25in (20.5cm x 13.5cm) Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 41077 Photos available upon request.
Seller: Schilb Antiquarian, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, second state of the last work published by Twain during his lifetime with C-F on the copyright page. Octavo, original half cloth over pictorial boards, paper spine label, frontispiece in blue and white. In very good condition. Although not published until 1907 in Harper's Magazine, followed by a slim book version with some revisions in 1909, the story was quite old. The original manuscript dated back perhaps as far as 1868, and an 1873 version has survived. The story was revised several times, and chapters 3 and 4 of the manuscript became the Harper's story. Longer versions of the manuscript have subsequently been published, including one edited by Dixon Wector which appeared as part of Report from Paradise (1952), and in part 1 of Mark Twain's Quarrel with Heaven: "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven" And Other Sketches" (Ray B. Browne, ed., 1970). Twain claimed that the story in its early version was a satire of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward's The Gates Ajar, a very popular novel published in 1868.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the last work published by Twain during his lifetime with C-F on the copyright page. Octavo, original half cloth over pictorial boards, paper spine label, frontispiece in blue and white. In very good condition. Although not published until 1907 in Harper's Magazine, followed by a slim book version with some revisions in 1909, the story was quite old. The original manuscript dated back perhaps as far as 1868, and an 1873 version has survived. The story was revised several times, and chapters 3 and 4 of the manuscript became the Harper's story. Longer versions of the manuscript have subsequently been published, including one edited by Dixon Wector which appeared as part of Report from Paradise (1952), and in part 1 of Mark Twain's Quarrel with Heaven: "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven" And Other Sketches" (Ray B. Browne, ed., 1970). Twain claimed that the story in its early version was a satire of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward's The Gates Ajar, a very popular novel published in 1868.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); red cloth, with titling and pictorial elements stamped in white, black, and blue on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [vi],120,[2]pp, with inserted pictorial frontispiece by Albert Levering; this copy's sheets bulk 5/8" (no priority determined). Gently spine-sunned, with spine ends lightly rubbed, with just a hint of foxing to endpapers; Near Fine. In the original dustjacket, priced $1.00 at lower spine; a little sunned, dusty, with some scattered patches of soil, a few small tears, and shallow losses to spine ends; an unrestored, Very Good example. "Satirical fantasy of the afterlife which mocks the follies of religious fundamentalism and the absurdities which figure in popular images of paradise" (Barron, Fantasy Literature: A Reader's Guide 3-343). Scarce in dustjacket. BAL 3511; Smith T-433.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
TWAIN, Mark. Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1909.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, one of three variants, the sheets bulk 1/2" (no known priority). Illustrated by Albert Levering. Owner's name and address on the front endpaper, spine lettering rubbed, very good in very good dustwrapper with some very modest chipping, mostly on the rear panel, and an old, faint tape shadow. *BAL* 3511.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.