Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Rebound with front cover piece from original binding affixed to front cover, shelfwear, front endpages heavily tanned with edge chipping
Seller: The Book Cellar, Deerfield Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: A poem by W. D. Howells on Mark Twain's birthday in 1903 pinned to fep, backstrap loose, heavy edge wear, spotting eps.
Seller: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Boards worn, corners bumped and frayed, front board very loose, 3" section of spine detatching, shaken, some light soil and foxing throughout, binding generally sound. 651 pp. ; Always Delivery Confirmation. 35 Years Fast Excellent Service. We Know How To Pack Books.
Seller: GLOVER'S BOOKERY, ABAA, Lexington, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: With 234 black and white illustrations; previous owner's name on third free fly leaf; 5 pages of ads at rear.
Seller: Charles Bartman, Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 32mo; 256, 259pp. bound in one volume. No date (1871?). Rebound in half-leather and green linen boards with front cover (lightly soiled) retained at rear. The textblock is clean, square and tight. The rebind, however, has not held up and was apparently repaired with some sort of binder's tape to the hinges and glue to the joints, stabilizing the covers. The leather is scuffed.
Seller: La Playa Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad; or The New Pilgrims' Progress. A. S. Irving, 1871.
Price: US$72.92 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1871. No Edition Remarks. 346 pages. Fully bound in brown leather with gilt lettering. Small brown stains (approx. 1cm) to pages on occasion. Light thumb marking and tanning to pages with some subtle foxing throughout. Hinges are visibly cracked with netting exposed causing some looseness, but remain attached. Gutters are lightly creased but page binding remains firm. Previous owner's name to front endpaper. Boards have moderate corner bumping and edge-wear with moderate rubbing, tanning and scuffing overall. Minor loss of leather at corners. Prominent splitting to front joint slightly exposing binding beneath. Spine has moderate rubbing and sunning with noticeable splitting and crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. Bound in contemporary black cloth. Embossed title and Middle Eastern panorama on front cover. Wear to extremities. Missing spine. Front board detached.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, xvii, 651 pages. In Good condition. Dark brown spine with gilted lettering. Front board has mild wear , mild aging, and moderate wear on head and tail corners, rear board has mild wear, moderate aging, a small tear on from tail corner along tail edge, and a small tear on head edge, spine has mild wear, moderate aging, and moderate wear to head and tail edges. Textblock has splitting along the gutter pages 120-131 and 368-383, mild bend from page 19-36, mild impressions from illustrations throughout book, mild water damage from rear end-page to rear pastedown, moderate wear from front end-page to first illustrated page, moderate aging to front and rear pastedowns and end-pages, moderate aging along all edges, and moderate foxing across all edges. Shelved ND-E. 1378467. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$192.41 + shipping
Description: [Literature] 2 VOLUMES IN 1. Octavo (16 x 11cm), pp. 256; 259; [1] imprint; [20] advertisements. Contemporary red half morocco, lettered and decorated in gilt to spine, marbled boards. Brown endpapers, pictorial frontispiece and title page vignette. Ownership to titlpage, textblock spotted and a shaken with some gathers standing proud. Rear hinge split. Binding rubbed and worn. Good. Messers. Hotten published this book along with others in 1871 by Twain without his authority, including the titles 'Screamers', 'Eye-openers' and 'A Burlesque Authority'. Twain is noted for his novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884).
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 3 vols. [6], vii-viii, 9-120, [6], 120-140, [6], 241-383, [1]p. Softcovers in original wrapper.18 cm. A worn set. Bindings weak, lacking significant portions of printed backstrips and with the front cover and first several pages of first volume detached. Some foxing on leaves and page edges. Former owner's name ("Heath Villa" in ink of front covers and title-pages. "Cheap Issue" and "One Shilling" printed in top corners on each front cover. This travel book detailed a trip by Clemens in 1867 aboard the USS Quaker City to Europe and the Holy Land. Clemens was a humorist and there is a fair dose of satire and other forms of humor. More copies of this book appear to have been sold during the author's lifetime than of any of his other books. It seems unlikely that many copies, complete or otherwise, of this cheap three volume Australian edition would have survived. Cheap Issue [statement in upper left corner on all three volumes).
Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$256.55 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: [1870 or 1871]. The Complete Work, previously published under the title The Innocents Abroad and New Pilgrim's Progress. Paper covered boards (scuffed, rubbed and chipped at edges, some loss of paper cover on spine). 256, 260pp, plus extensive publisher's illustrated catalogue for 1871 at rear. Engraved frontispiece, illustrated title page. Some browning to early and last pages. Hinges cracked, binding holding. Small bookseller's embossed stamp on first leaf. With an introduction by Edward P Hingston. Scarce. Hotten presented a number of Twain's works to the London audience in 1871 under attention grabbing titles such as Screamers, and Eye-Openers. Pleasure Trip on the Continent is one of these. According to a New York Times article of the period, none of them were authorised by Twain. The small article suggests this volume was published in 1870 but internal evidence suggests 1871. 12mo.
Seller: BookAddiction (ibooknet member), Canterbury, United Kingdom
Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Pleasure Trip on the Continent. John Camden Hotten, London, 1871.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Mark Twain's Pleasure Trip on the Continent by Mark Twain with title-page notation: The Complete Work Previously Issued Under the Title of "The Innocents Abroad (256 pages) and the "New Pilgrim's Progress" (259 pages). First UK edition in printed boards. Publisher: John Camden Hotten, London, 1871 Printed red boards are in good to very good condition with wear to the spine and edges Contents are clean, a few spots of foxing and owners embossed seal to the title-page. First free endpaper with large repaired tear and two edge chips. 4 ½ x 6 ½ Inches. A scarce Twain item. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #C-192. Price: $300.
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$336.25 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: In 1871 a number of works by this author were presented to the London public under various titles: "Screamers," "Eye-openers," "A Burlesque Autobiography," and "A Pleasure Trip on the Continent." All these books were published through Messrs. Hotten and were not authorized by the author. This is one of these publications. Red boards in edge-worn condition and with some surface damage. Hinges are cracked but binding is holding. 256pp plus 259pp in 1 volume with ads at front and "Very Important New Books, Special List for 1871" at rear. Some age-discolouration of contents with previous owner's name on top of title page and a stain at base of title page. Touch of foxing throughout.
Seller: Arty Bees Books, Wellington, New Zealand
Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad. George Robertson & Co., Melbourne, 1871.
Price: US$501.22 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 383 pages. "South Rhine Book Club" written in lovely handwriting on EP. Slightly cocked. Green cloth with gilt title on spine and decoration on front (person riding a camel). Slight mark along outer side of cover, front and back. Please contact O'Connell's Bookshop Adelaide to check availability etc. Size: 17 x 12cm
Seller: O'Connell's Bookshop Est. 1957, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Price: US$608.31 + shipping
Description: first Australian edition 384pp GOOD (lilac cloth w.blind borders and gilt camel rider stamp to top board,rubbed and stained,browned spine,faded,mod.wear and chipping to extrems.,paper separation and amateur tape repairs to ep gutters,prelims.and content edges sl.foxed/soiled,some sl.foxing to contents,sl.shaky spine) scarce first australian edition - tired copy but complete
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Australian edition, cloth issue. Green cloth lettered in gilt, gilt vignette on the front board, ruled and decorated on the rear board in blind. (19), 10-383, (1)pp. A small owner name on the front fly, front hinge tender, a bit of foxing, some scattered light stains on the front board, and some rubbing, an about very good copy of an uncommon edition.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, original black cloth, pictorial gilt title to upper cover, binding samples affixed to front and rear paste-downs; sample text and illustrations with subscriber leaves bound in at rear. A rare salesman's dummy for the best-selling of Twain's books during is lifetime, and one of the best-selling travel books ever written. With binding samples affixed to the paste-downs, representative content, and subscriber's forms at the rear. CONDITION: Very good, worn at extremities.
Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first issue with all first issue points called for by BAL 3316. Missing page numbers in the Table of Contents on pages xvii-xviii; Last entry reads "Thankful Devotion-A Newspaper Valedictory"; No illustration on p. 129; P. 643 shows "Chapter XLI"; Text ends on p. 651 followed by five Pages of ads with "Personal History" on p. 654. A Near Fine copy. Original publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt on spine. Front board stamped in gilt and ruled in blind. Back board stamped in blind. Brown coated endpapers. All edges speckled brown. Bottom corners rubbed. Top of spine with a small amount of fraying. Overall, a very bright, clean copy with no rubbing to gilt and better than usually encountered. Publisher's prospectus also Near Fine. Full black cloth. Front board stamped in gilt and ruled in blind. Back board stamped in blind. Brown coated endpapers. Fold-out Bible advertisement with a large closed tear, professionally repaired. A bit of rubbing and soiling to binding. Some dampstaining along outer edges of second frontispiece and final two leaves. Two pages of order sheets with pencil and ink orders. Both volumes chemised and housed together in a double, quarter morocco slipcase. Previous owner's bookplate on chemise of each volume. A common enough book, but quite scarce in this condition. The last truly Fine copy brought $10,000 at auction (Sotheby's Library of an English Bibliophile Part II, 2011). Twain's second book after Jumping Frog, a humorous narrative of his travels through Europe and Israel with a group of American tourists on board a retired Civil War vessel. The author's most popular book during his lifetime, outselling what modern scholars consider his major literary works Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. BAL 3316. Johnson, Twain, p. 9. Near Fine.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.