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. A 3rd Supply of Yankee Drolleries. John Camden Hotten, London, 1870.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "The most recent works of the best American Humourists" includes 'Autocrat of the Breakfast Table' by Oliver Wendell Holmes; 'The Jumping Frog' by Mark Twain; 'Artemus Ward Among the Fenians'; 'The Luck of Roaring Camp'; 'Innocents Abroad'. With an introduction by George Augustus Sala. Good-, brown cloth with wear along edges and spine edges, hinges repaired with black cloth tape, name and Mar 24 '71 on inside front paste-down, binding cracked mid-book.
Seller: Illustrated Bookshelf, Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: (256pp) followed by 22pp illustrated publisher's ads. Inner hinges exposed, but holding. Spine and edges lightly rubbed, else clean well-preserved Size: 12mo
Seller: C.P. Collins Booksellers, Leichhardt, NSW, Australia
Price: US$167.30 + shipping
Description: London: John Camden Hotten, n.d. (1870). Sm. 8vo. Orig. green cloth (corners slightly bumped). (iv, 256, 26pp.). With 26 pages of "Very Important New Books" adverts, dated 1870. 1st English edition. Occasional light foxing, otherwise fine. NOTE: It humorously chronicles what Twain called his "Great Pleasure Excursion" on board the chartered vessel Quaker City through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of American travellers in 1867
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Price: US$352.90 + shipping
Description: [Travel literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[iv]; 256; [xxviii]. Publisher's green cloth, neatly rebacked with the original spine laid on, with some loss, blind stamped design to boards, brown coated endpapers. Advertisements at front pp.i-ii and rear pp.i-xxviii; 'Very Important New Books: Special List for 1870.' Light spotting to leaves, neatly repaired closed tear to p.5., toning to edges. Bumped corners, marking to boards and toning to spine. A sound copy. This is one of Twain's travel books, here the travels included a journey through the Papal States to Rome, a trip through the Black Sea and finally travel through the Holy Land. The book details the culture he saw on his journey. The book was created and revised from newspaper columns that Twain wrote throughout the journey, and was his best selling work during his lifetime.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Description: BAL 3590 issued in both cloth and paper wrappers. Ads dated 1870.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.