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Price: US$38.43 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Hardback. Small 8vo.pp. 148. Poems and anecdotes. Original publisherÕs cloth binding in green, lettered gilt at spine. An armorial book plate on front pastedown belonging to one Albert Grant. Contents include:'The Pike County Ballads' and 'Wanderlieder.' Period advertisements add graphic interest with a publisher's list of 'Very Important New Books. Special List for 1871' and a list of works by Mark twain. Very good. Slight rubbing. Small nicks to cover at spine.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
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.
Price: US$192.13 + 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$256.17 + 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$334.38 + 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. Screamers and Eye Openers. John Camden Hotten, 74, Picadilly, London, 1871.
Price: US$449.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 6/25" x 4". Two collections of Mark Twain's short stories bound together, both published in London by John Camden Hotten. Both are undated but attributed to 1871. Screamers: A Gathering of Scraps of Humour, Delicious Bits, & Short Stories. BAL 3333. Includes the final story 'Vengeance.' Probable first appearance for several stories. Eye Openers: Good Things, Immensely Funny Sayings & Stories That Will Bring A Smile Upon the Gruffest Countenance. BAL 3331. First appearance of 'Journalism in Tennessee.' Both printed by George Levey. Three quarter binding with marbled boards, significant wear to corners and spine. Previous bookseller's notes in pencil ("1st book appearance of 'Journalism in Tennessee' and several other pieces") on free endpaper. [1-9], 10-172, [5-9], 10-172. Verso of final page has ads for 'The New books of Humour' from James Camden Hotten.
Seller: B Street Books, ABAA and ILAB, San Mateo, CA, U.S.A.