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TWAIN MARK. Mark Twain's Library of Humor [First State in 3/4 bound Leather]. Charles L. Webster & Company, 1888.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: First ed., 1888, with holograph of Twain's "Compiler's Apology;" 707 p., immaculate and unmarked--not ex-lib., no former owner's name; many ill. by E. W. Kemble. With skillful repair it would be "very good"--gutters cracked and texturedrued maroon boards with maroon leather spine and ends are rubbed along side and at crown and foot; raised bands with tilt lettering still bright. Surely this wonderful volume deserves loving care.

Seller: My Dead Aunt's Books, Hyattsville, MD, U.S.A.

TWAIN, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens).. The Stolen White Elephant, Etc.. Charles L. Webster & Company,, NY:, 1888.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: An early printing. Duodecimo, bound in decorated olive green cloth. Edge worn at the spine ends and corners, faded along the spine, ring stain on rear board, upper corner of title page is clipped, previous owner's name on front paste-down and blind-stamp on title page, else good. ; 306 pages

Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.

. MARK TWAIN 'S LIBRARY OF HUMOR. CHARLES L. WEBSTER, NY, NY, 1888.

Price: US$52.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 707 PAGES. DARK BROWN CLOTH COVERED BOARDS TITLES AND ILLUSTRATION ON THE FRONT COVER AND SPINE ARE FADED. THE COVERS ARE SEPARATING AT THE SEAMS. THE INTERIOR IS CLEAN WITHOUT FOXING OR OTHER DEFECTS. THE BOOK CONTAINS HUMOR COMPILED BY MARK TWAIN AND HIS ASSOCIATES THAT INCLUDE THE WORK OF AMBROSE BIERCE, JOSH BILLINGS, GEORGE W. CABLE, MARK TWAIN, EUGENE FIELD, JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS, BRET HARTE, DR. OKIVER WENDELL HOLMES, WILLIAM D. HOWELLS, WASHINGTON IRVING,JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, BILL NYE, EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN, HARRIETT BEECHER STOWE, UNCLE REMUS, ARTEMUS WARD AND MANY OTHERS.EUGENE FIELD'S CONTRIBUTION IS ENTITLES "HIS FIRST DAY AT EDITING" AND : OON CRITEEK DE BERNHARDT." Size: 6" x 9 1/4"

Seller: Aah Rare Chicago, Glenview, IL, U.S.A.

Twain, Mark. The Stolen White Elephant. Charles L. Webster & Company, New York, 1888.

Price: US$60.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Light general wear with rubbing to the corners and spine ends. An excellent copy. Bright and clean. 306 pages.

Seller: Yes Books, portland, ME, U.S.A.

Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Library of Humor. Charles L. Webster, New York, 1888.

Price: US$60.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Original brown cloth. Spine and cover lettering faded; iinner hinges cracked; bookplate.

Seller: By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.

. Mark Twain's Library of Humor. Charles L. Webster, New York, 1888.

Price: US$85.00 + shipping

Description: Original covers and spine mounted on later cloth binding. Cover corners and spine ends lightly worn; nicks in two outer margins.

Seller: By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.

Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]. MARK TWAIN'S LIBRARY OF HUMOR. Charles L. Webster & Co., New York, 1888.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: xxiv + 707 pp. First edition, second state, with index of titles arranged alphabetically. Large anthology of humorous writings, including Twain, Bierce, Howells, and many more. Profusely illustrated with B&W text drawings by E.W. Kemble. Binding is cloth with gilt lettering, illustration blind-stamped on front board. Front and rear hinges cracked; front free endpaper loose but not detached; spine faded.

Seller: E.R. Bosson, Books, Brewster, NY, U.S.A.

TWAIN, Mark. Library of Humor. Charles L. Webster & Co, 1888.

Price: US$105.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 707pp. Large octavo hardbound, tight binding. Spine and boards faded, cover wear. Stain to bottom page edges. Interior clean throughout

Seller: COLLINS BOOKS, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.

Twain, Mark. Library of Humor. Charles L. Webster & Company, 1888.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: First edition first state with matching dates on 1888 on the title and copyright page with no later printings noted, and the short story "Warm hair" on page 8 attributed to Twain in error. Index not alphabetical. Illustrtated by E.W. Kemble. Twain left the editing mainly to William Dean Howells and Charles Hopkins Clark. Thick 8vo. 9 1/4" x 6 1/4". xxiv, 702 pages. Brown boards stamped in black and gilt. 2" tear top page 63.Rear free endpaper missing. Front endpaper split at hinge and top half of flyleaf and following prlim missing. First several leaves loosening but intact with worn foredges. Boards and binding is still holding. Boards well worn at corners - Most of color and gilt on front cover is gone. Well worn at spine ends. Back board very spotty. Could be rebacked or rebound.

Seller: Cultural Connection, Cape Coral, FL, U.S.A.

Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Library of Humor Illustrated by E. W. Kemble. Charles L. Webster & Company, New York, 1888.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Front gutter starting, but totally intact. Edgewear and bumped corners in some areas - see image. "Publishers and Booksellers Protective Association" stamp in rear. ; Book is in excellent condition - exceptions noted. This is a true First Edition, First Printing, with similar dates of 1888 on both title and copyright page, and the short story, "Warm Hair," attributed, falsely, to Twain. Stamp of artist, E. G. Studley, on first and second front free endpapers. "Publishers and Booksellers Protective Association" stamp in rear. Bright gilt lettering on front board and spine. From the library of Sanford Phippen, Maine author. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 707 pages

Seller: Bookshelf of Maine, Franklin, ME, U.S.A.

TWAIN, Mark. Mark Twain's library of humour. Charles L. Webster, NY, 1888.

Price: US$315.36 + shipping

Description: Illustrations by E.W Kemble. Pages generally clean with a few spots of foxing; binding tight; cloth worn at board corners, at head & foot of spine, & along spine joints; gilt lettering on spine a little dull. Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback in dark brown cloth with gilt

Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Mark Twain. Mark Twain's Library of Humor. Charles L. Webster and Company, New York, 1888.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: "Mark Twain's Library of Humor". Published by the Charles L. Webster Company in 1888. Measures 9-¼" x 5-¾". First edition with matching dates on 1888 on the title and copyright page with no later printings noted, and the short story "Warm Hair" erroneously credited to Mark Twain on page 8 (BAL 3425). Very good minus condition in the publisher's original brown pictorial cloth boards with gilt lettering on the front board and spine. Rubbing and wear to hinges, spine ends, rear board, and corners. Internal repairs to both hinges. A few splits to binding internally, but all pages remain securely bound. Clean interior. Bookseller stamp to rear free endpaper. 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, editor. Mark Twain s Library of Humor. Charles L. Webster & Company, New York, 1888.

Price: US$475.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Charles L. Webster & Company, New York, 1888, 707 pages. Illustrated by E. W. Kemble. An anthology of short humorous works compiled by Mark Twain, William Dean Howells and Charles Hopkins Clark. In 1880, George Gebbie suggested to Mark Twain that he publish an anthology of humorous works. The idea eventually worked out into a project financed by Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) to produce an anthology of American humor with himself as editor and Howells and Clark assisting. Clemens actually did the least work on the project, but he remained in control the whole time and had the final say in everything. FULL TAN LEATHER with gilt lettering on red and black rectangles on spine. Not often found in full leather. B&W frontispiece. Marbled end papers and page edges. Includes facsimile of Mark Twain's "Compiler's Apology." Condition: Very Good-, First Edition, First Printing with matching dates of 1888 on the title and copyright page with no later printings noted, and the short story "Warm Hair" erroneously credited to Mark Twain on page 8. Wear to four corners and bottom edges of covers. Rear cover hinge cracked(major flaw-see photo) as well as one inch of front cover hinge. Some soiling and staining to covers. Bookseller stamp on bep.

Seller: Kruse Arizona Books, Oro Valley, AZ, U.S.A.

Sheridan, Philip Henry. Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1888.

Price: US$550.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Two volumes. Illustrated with numerous portrait plates (including frontispiece portraits at beginning of both volumes) and maps. First editions, first printings. Publisher's dark green cloth, with rider on horseback stamped in gilt to front boards, lettered in gilt, band of military stars in gilt to spines, and floral endpapers; near fine set, with light toning to spines, light rubbing to spine ends and corners, a hint of rubbing to boards, very bright gilt, previous owner's bookplates to front pastedowns, light offsetting to title pages from frontispiece portraits, and a small closed tear to fold-out map in Vol. 2 between pp. 26-27. Overall, a handsome and vibrant set, with clean pages. In Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, the famous Civil War general traces his fascinating life story. Sheridan is perhaps best remembered for "The Burning," a brutal campaign in which he and his troops decimated the Shenandoah Valley, which was considered to be the "Breadbasket of the Confederacy." The campaign's scorched earth policy foreshadowed Sherman's March to the Sea. After the Civil War, Sheridan fought in the Indian Wars, where he led aggressive attacks against Native Americans, and supposedly coined the disturbing phrase, "the only good Indian is a dead Indian." Sheridan is also known for playing a key role in the creation of Yellowstone National Park. Sheridan wrote his memoirs near the end of his life at the urging of Mark Twain, who also influenced Ulysses Grant in writing his own memoirs (both Grant and Sheridan published their works with Twain's publishing firm, Charles L. Webster and Company). Personal Memoirs is widely considered to be one of the most important first-hand accounts of the Civil War and Indian Wars.

Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens). Mark Twain's Library of Humor. Charles L. Webster & Co, New York, 1888.

Price: US$776.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: This is a handsome and important book. A first edition, first state of Mark Twain's (Samuel L. Clemens') compilation of the best in humor at the time of the late 19th Century. The book is in near fine 3/4 bound in heavy dark burgundy leather and marbled covers with gold gilt on the top edge. The book is very square and solid with wear at the corners and touches of surface wear on the creases and the hinge in the middle of the text block is just starting but remains solid. Overall natural darkening to the page edges but no signsof foxing that we found. A previous owner's gift inscription "Clarence R. Chaney from Bessie, Christmas 1941" on the page previous to the half-title page and a corresponding Chaney family book label (partially torn) on the front endpaper. A heavy book, the volume is 2 1/2" thick and includes works by over 50 authors. With its Index of Titles in order of appearance (rather than alphabetical) and with credit to Twain for "Warm Hair" on page 8, this is clearly the first state of this wonderful book. Featuring works by Mark Twain (a front note from Twain states that his editors controlled the content, otherwise all the works in the book would have been his) and a wide range of important authors including Uncle Remus, Brett Harte, Washington Irving, Ambrose Bierce, Josh Billings, Mary Mapes Dodge, Artemus Ward, and Charles Dudley Warner. Twain's contributions include "The Jumping Frog," "Nevada Nabobs in New York," Cannibalism in the Cars," "Dick Baker's Cat," and many others. A handsome Twain First Edition.

Seller: Parrish Books, Sandy, OR, U.S.A.