Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Octavo, hardcover, hinges cracked, small "ding" on back cover else VG in tan boards and orange cloth covered spine. No dj. Has preface, biography, explanation and novels and stories such as Life on the Mississippi, Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, A Connecticut Yankee, Puddnhead Wilson etc. 1462 pp.
Seller: Virginia Martin, aka bookwitch, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$17.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good condition. Red cloth binding. Spine is somewhat faded. Spine tips are bumped. 324 pages.
Seller: Jerry Merkel, XENIA, OH, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Harper & Brothers, 1940.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: Near fine in chipped dust jacket with a closed tear to front panel in mylar cover.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition Stated. Near fine
Seller: Out West Books, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 402 pages
Seller: Novel Ideas Books & Gifts, Decatur, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$44.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. [6], ix-xvii, [5], 1-296, [2] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and with seven color plates, all done by W. Hatherell, R.A. A bookplate from the Becky Thatcher Bookshop, once located in Hannibal, MO, Twain's hometown (bookplate with a 1947 gift inscription on it). A minor tobacco odor to the leaves.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Thick 8vo, brown cloth with bluish label and small square blue seal on lower right of cover, Edited and with an Introduction by Bernard DeVoto, Mylar-protected typographic dust jacket, xx + 402 pages. An exciting collection of less common Twain. Internally clean and solid binding with the Scarce dust jacket (chipped). Overall, VG+/VG condition.
Seller: Borg Antiquarian, Lake Forest, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$49.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Rust textured cloth with blue title box, titled in gilt. Stated first edition with code k-p. Faint dampstain to top edge, very mild wave to pages, front hinge mildly starting. The DJ in mylar is edgechipped, slightly dampstained. Flap price intact. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Mark Twain. Mark Twain in Eruption. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Mark Twain in Eruption. Hitherto Unpublished Pages about Men and Events". Published by Harper & Brothers Publishers in 1940. Measures 8-¾" x 5-¾". First edition with "FIRST EDITION" and code letters "K-P" on the copyright page (BAL 3564). Very good plus condition in the publisher's original terra-cotta imitation buckram. Very minor wear and staining to the boards, with the spine lettering partially rubbed. Old bookstore label on the front end paper, otherwise near fine.
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. MARK TWAIN IN ERUPTION. Harper, New York, 1940.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. A NEAR FINE FIRST NO DJ. ****FROM THE LIBRARY OF SAM FULLER. FAMOUS HOLLYWOOD FILM DIRECTOR. WITH FULLER'S PERSONAL BOOKPLATE ON FEP. COMES WITH CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY****
Seller: Vagabond Books, A.B.A.A., PASADENA, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover in dj. 8vo (8.5" x 6"), pebbled brown cloth. xxviiii, 402 pp. Bookplate on ffep. CONDITION: Very good, faint white spots on front cover, some offsetting from front panel of dj on pastedowns and endpapers; good dj, worn at extremities with a few small tears. First edition, first printing, "one of 500 copies on thin paper" possibly sent out for review or promotional purposes. BAL 3564.
Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$82.00 + shipping
Description: Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in near fine (very light shelf wear) dust jacket (in mylar). 402 pps.
Seller: BookMine, Fair Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. Mark Twain in Eruption. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Solid copy of first printing. First edition stated with correct code of K-P. Unmarked, tight and square. Terra Cotta cloth in form of buckram shows some wear but no major defect. Light soiling to front pastedown and lighter still on rear pastedown. This was edited and with an introduction by Bernard DeVoto from unpublished parts of Twains Autobiography. 402 pages with index. Price intact jacket has light chipping at spine ends and faint soiling on front panel. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Stated First Edition, with Harper's 'K-P' code on copyright page indicating October 1940. Flexible boards in terra-cotta imitation buckram, stamped in blue and gilt on spine. Interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows very light edge wear; not price clipped; in an archival mylar sleeve. pp. xxviii, 402. [BAL 3564]. This is the thin paper/flexible board issue of the first edition, of which 500 copies were made with the sheets bulk width of 7/8''. [The other 700 copies of the first edition, run simultaneously, were in a hard binding (which featured the publisher's device on the front cover) and the sheets bulk measured 1 1/4''.]
Seller: Boyd Used & Rare Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Stated first edition. Fine in Near fine dj. Stated First Edition, with Harper's 'K-P' code on copyright page indicating October 1940. Flexible boards in terra-cotta imitation buckram, stamped in blue and gilt on spine. Interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows very light edge wear; not price clipped; in an archival mylar sleeve
Seller: Out West Books, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good+ 1940 Mark Twain first edition in Very Good dust-jacket, slight chipping and small tear on back cover. As referenced in BAL #3564, title page in black and red, terra-cotta imitation buckram binding with publisher's device stamped in blue on front. On copyright page: first edition; and, code letters K-P, signifying printed October, 1940. This is the 1940 first edition, selected by Bernard DeVoto from the unpublished parts of Twain's autobiography, copyrighted 1922; Editor and Twain scholar Bernard DeVoto took Twain's literary and opinionated anecdotes, asides, and discourses and shaped them into semi-autobiographical form for publication in 1940. Twain rambles along here discussing everything from Andrew Carnegie to Kipling. The result is an insider's look at the literary Mark Twain with insight as to why and how his humor became American folklore; 8vo
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: (1940). 402 pages. Index. Edited and with an introduction by Bernard Devoto. Staining at gutters present caused by the glue used at binding. Very good in dust jacket. (110)
Seller: Colorado Pioneer Books, Centennial, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo. ("K-P" on copyright page) 402 pages. Bound in original terra-cotta cloth; near fine in a fine dust jacket. One of only 7,000 copies printed. The editor selected unpublished parts of Twain's autobiography, which was copyrighted in 1922. Tasteful bookplate front paste-down. A lovely copy in like dust jacket. BAL 3564.
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.