Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$9.56 + shipping
Description: hardback, 8vo, (vi),414pp, 32pp adverts, frontispiece, edges browned, heavy foxing on title page and tissue guard, owner's name on endpaper, orange pictorial cloth, rubbed, a frayed patch on rear spine edge, Good condition / no dustwrapper
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom
Price: US$10.51 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1900. Chatto and Windus. hardcover. ACCEPTABLE brown cloth cover. spine sunned. gilt titles on spine. spine worn and faded. edgewear. top edge gilded. 7x5
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Twain, Mark. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg Etc.. Chatto & Windus, London, U.K., 1900.
Price: US$18.03 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No dust jacket. Hardcover. Very worn, faded and grubby boards. Rear board has numerous red ink marks over lower part. Spine is very worn and rubbed, with some wear, bumping and rubbing to ends. Leading corners are worn and bumped. Head of page block is in gilt; face and foot are rough-cut. Decorative pastedowns and endpapers. Pages are a little tanned, and first few pages have noticeable age-spotting. Tear on upper edge of final page. Hinges are cracked but binding appears sound. Text remains clear. AF
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$22.93 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: 1st UK edition? Needs rebinding. Pictorial cover, spine detached from book loose inside book. Frontis loose. Publisher's catalogue at rear dated June 1900 many pages loose approx. 20 pages many pages loose, some corners missing. Main contents clean and tight. . Size: 8vo
Seller: CHARLES BOSSOM, Ely, CAMBS, United Kingdom
Price: US$23.34 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1900. 414 pages. No dust jacket. Orange pictorial cloth. Rough cut pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, creased corners and foxing. A few pages are uncut, thus unread. Binding has remained firm. Boards have been moderately rub worn. Noticeable shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are bumped and a little frayed Spine ends are crushed, with noticeable splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Twain, Mark. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg & Other Stories. Chatto & Windus, 1900.
Price: US$26.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The boards are worn and marked.Previous ownership inscription.Minor markings.Small tear on front end page.Well bound.Good copy.[R.N]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Twain, Mark. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, Etc. Chatto and Windus, London, 1900.
Price: US$31.85 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in publishers yellow-orange cloth. With illustration to front board. Frontispiece by Lucius Hitchcock, top edge gilt. A very good copy with corners bumped and bearing a touch of wear. Spotting to the preliminaries and toning to the spine. Blank endpaper missing? Spine slightly faded.
Seller: Cotswold Rare Books, OXFORDSHIRE, United Kingdom
Price: US$39.65 + shipping
Description: Hardback, 13.5x19.5cm, 414 + 32pp. Good condition in pictorial orange cloth. TEG. General wear, scuff marks and flecking. Worn and tanned at spine; starting to fray at head. Bumped corners. Cracked hinges. Owner's stamp at ffep, booklist, title page. Very foxed at edges and prelims. Very worn and yellowed at rear catalogue, with numerous 1-2cm edge tears. Rear free endpaper is stuck down at lower edge.
Seller: City Basement Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Foxing to spine cloth. 3/8" chips and tears to cloth at ends of spine and corners of boards. Some black ink spot stains to front board. Quite heavy spots of foxing. Large owner's signature in blue crayon pencil on front endpaper. ; First UK edition. [viii], 414, [2] pages + 32 pages advertisements + frontispiece. Illustrated orange cloth boards. Page dimensions: 187 x 126mm. Floral pattern endpapers. Top page edges gilt. Frontispiece illustration by Lucius Hitchcock. The UK edition has two chapters that were not in the US edition: "Christian Science and the Book of Mrs. Eddy" and "Diplomatic Pay and Clothes". [Bibliographical reference: BAL 3460]
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
Twain, Mark. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, Etc.. Chatto and Windus, London, 1900.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first British edition, published in 1900 by Chatto and Windus. ( latter state wit catalog to rear of text dated September of 1900. The first state catalog is dated June of 1900. A very good copy, bound in publishers yellow-orange cloth. With illustration to front board. Frontispiece by Lucius Hitchcock, top edge gilt. A very good copy with corners bumped and bearing a touch of wear. Spotting to the preliminaries and toning to the spine.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$53.51 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1) How to Tell a Story, published as 1st edition by Harpers in 1899, pink/red cloth hard cover with much fading and most of gilt titles and decorations hard to decipher, and some discolouration of boards; 233 untrimmed and clean pages and 2 pages of advertisements at rear; only in fair condition. 2) The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg with a frontispiece by Lucius Hitchcock; 414 pages with 32 pages of advertisements at rear dated June 1990; worn and faded covers (see photograph) and this 1st edition published in 1890 is in fair to good condition.
Seller: McGonigles', Cerne Abbas, United Kingdom
Price: US$82.81 + shipping
Description: First English edition. [4] + 414 + 32 pp. Orange cloth, yellow and black stamped decorated front board, some old splash marks on upper board but not badly disfiguring, gilt on spine rubbed and sunned, some rubbing to boards. Rear free end-paper missing, but a good example. The 32 page publishers catalogue bound at the rear is dated Sept. 1900. LITERATURE AMERICAN LITERATURE- AMERICAN 19TH CENTURY FIRST EDITION LITERATURE
Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, First Impression in England: with requisite 32pp. of ads dated "June, 1900." 5 x 7.5in. 414pp. Publisher's cloth boards. GOOD. Shows some wear of the extremities, spine lightly toned, former owner name neatly on verso of frontispiece, some foxing at the beginning and ending of text, otherwise the binding remains strong and tight, the text is unmarked, and the boards remain distinct. As pictured.
Seller: North Books: Used & Rare, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.55 + shipping
Description: [Fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[vi]; 414; [32] advertisements (dated June 1900 as called for in Johnson). Publisher's yellow cloth lettered in gilt to spine and black to upper board, blocked in black and yellow to upper board, patterned endpapers, gilt top edge. Title page in red and black. Pictorial frontispiece. Light spotting to first few leaves, ownership inscription, slight worm damage to endpapers. Corners a little bumped, cloth rubbed, toning to spine, some marking to boards. Good. This book contains short stories by Twain, and initially appeared in Harper's Monthly in the US. It is written as a satirical replay of the Garden of Eden Bible story and features themes of dishonesty and temptation. It was made into a short TV film directed by Ralph Rosenblum in 1980. Johnson, Merle, A Bibliography of the Works of Mark Twain, rev. edn (New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1935) p.71; and Blanck, Jacob, Bibliography of American Literature (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1955) 3460.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 414p; 32p advertisements. A golden-yellow cloth hardcover book in acceptable condition. The edges of the spine are wearing through, having a crackly appearance (possibly insect damage) which penetrates through to the gutters of the endpapers. However, the binding is still quite secure for normal handling. Surfaces chafed, with a few tiny rubbed-through spots. Some foxing inside, and advertisement pages tanned. Text unmarked. The first UK edition, first state, with advertisements dated June 1900.
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First state of the English printing with the 32 page advertisement catalog bound in at the rear dated "June 1900". Top edges gilt. The volume has soiled cloth, is bumped at the corners, worn at the spine ends with splits in the cloth, and is sunned on the spine with loss of intensity to the gilt stamped lettering. Both hinges are starting and there is a remnant of a removed plate on the front pastedown.
Seller: Trilby & Co. Books, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$885.46 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: With a frontispiece by Lucius Hitchcock. First UK edition. 8vo. Newly bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full crimson morocco, the covers with a gilt fillet border, the spine lettered and dated in gilt with one line panels and tooled bands, hand-marbled endleaves, gilt edges. Original cover bound in.
Seller: George Bayntun ABA ILAB PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom