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Twain, Mark. Merry Tales. Charles L. Webster & Co., New York, 1892.
Price: US$54.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Ex-lib copy. Green boards. Some bumping to the head and tail of the spine and light bumping, also, on the tips of the upper corners. Red lettering on the spine has been worn almost completely off. Round sticker on the spine has Library DD# written on it in black ink. Light edgewear around the outside edges of the board and along the outside edges of the spine. Library book plate on the FEP and a VERY old library pocket on the REP. Ghost images of each, respectively, on the FFEP and FREP. Previous owner felt the need to write in on the title page that Mark Twain is the pseudonym of Samuel Longhorne Clemens in black ink. First few pages are tape repaired. Pages are have varying degrees of soiling. Hinges have been reinforced (non-professsio nal) . This is a First Edition, but not a First State. Has Frontis. Nice for the frugal collector. ; lfh4d201; 209 pages; Ex-Lib
Seller: Crossroad Books, Eau Claire, WI, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. Merry Tales. Charles L. Webster, 1892.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, 1892. Not first issue. Has frontispiece and plain endpapers. Olive linen as issued, "Fiction Fact and Fancy Series" emblem on front board. Good minus. Front hinge untidily cracked, with light penciling and small stamps to endpapers "St. Kilian School Farmingdale, L.I". Light wear to head heel and edges. Now in protective archival acetate jacket. BAL 3435
Seller: Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
TWAIN, Mark. MERRY TALES. Charles L. Webster, New York, 1892.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Duodecimo, 209 pages+ ads, gray-green cloth, covers rubbed, touch of staiin in gutter at title-page Binding state A with parsley-patterned endpapers [BAL 3435]. The first volume Issued in the Fiction, Fact, and Fancy Series, by Mark Twain's son-in-law. This series was issued to compete against the "rubbish" distributed by many other publishers. The first story is how the Civil War came to Missouri, while Twain was still a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River.
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
TWAIN, Mark. Merry Tales. Charles L. Webster & Co, New York, 1892.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, 12mo, original green cloth over boards, green stamped lettering and designs to front cover and spine, illustrated frontispiece, BAL 3435, state c with plain endpapers and inserted portrait of Twain; a collection of seven short sketches. Good; much wear to cloth binding, small piece missing from corner of front free endpaper.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Mark Twain. Merry Tales. Charles L. Webster & Co., New York, 1892.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Octavo. Pp. 209 [7] ads. First edition. A title in the "Fiction, Fact, and Fancy Series." Contains seven tales, some previously published in Harper's or in The Century Magazine. Green cloth boards, titled in gilt. INSCRIBED BY PAUL LEICESTER FORD, writer of novels and biographies, to the artist Dorothea Dreier, on Christmas, 1892. Front hingeloose; light rubbing to extremities, faint soil to back cover, else fine.
Seller: Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
TWAIN, Mark.. Merry Tales.. Charles L. Webster & Co., New York, 1892.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: 209 [7, ads] pp. 12mo, original blue-green decorated cloth. First edition. BAL 3435; binding state A. 1894 tiny gift inscription; 19th c. merchant's stamp at head of first page of text; spine sunned; corners bumped and lightly rubbed.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. MERRY TALES. Charles L. Webster & Company, New York, 1892.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Small Octavo, vii, 9-209 pages, [7]. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's gray-green decorated cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Fading to text on spine. Rubbing to edges, corners, and hinges. Mild wear to head and tail of spine. Some scuffing and staining. Spine slightly cocked. Light water staining to top edge of textblock. Previous owner's stamp on page 209. Age toning throughout. Shelved in Case 13. Part of the Fiction, Fact, and Fancy series. BAL 3435. 1376230. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. First Edition, First Printing, First State.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
[Clemens, Samuel L.]. Merry Tales. By Mark Twain. Charles L. Webster & Co, New York, 1892.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, State A with the endpapers printed patter of parley-like leaves, and without the inserted frontispiece. Series advertisement in front, publisher's advertisements at back. 1 vols. 8vo. Part of the "Fiction, Fact and Fancy Series" BAL 3435; McBride p. 156 Original grey-olive green cloth. Head of spine a little frayed, foot slightly rubbed. Very good Series advertisement in front, publisher's advertisements at back. 1 vols. 8vo First edition, State A with the endpapers printed patter of parley-like leaves, and without the inserted frontispiece.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. Merry Tales. Charles L. Webster & Co., New York, 1892.
Price: US$130.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Binding State A without the inserted portrait and with the endpapers printed in an olive green pattern. 209 pages plus 7 pages of ads. No previous owner marks. A bit of rubbing to both ends of spine and all corners. Ships same or next business day very well protected in a box. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 209 pages
Seller: Good Books In The Woods, Spring, TX, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark:. Merry Tales. New York, Charles L. Webster,, 1892.
Price: US$140.66 + shipping
Description: Merry Tales by Mark Twain, hrsg. Charles L. Webster, New York, 1892, EA, OLwd m. goldgepr. Titel, 8°, 299 S etwas gebr., leicht best., Einband etwas fleckig sonst guter Zustand. rare Erstasusgabe in Englischer Sprache Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 850
Seller: Alte Bücherwelt, Perg, Austria
TWAIN, Mark. Merry Tales - First State. Charles L. Webster & Co, New York, 1892.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo. Pp. vi, 209, [7] of publisher's advertising. First state of the first edition, with editor Arthur Stedman's note dated March 1892 and no frontis. author portrait. Gray-green publisher's cloth, titles stamped in gilt and series device stamped in black on the cover and spine, endpapers decorated with an olive green leaf pattern. Minimal spine lean and toning to leaf edges, boards crisp and square, binding tight. These short stories and one play (Meisterschaft) previously appeared in Century and Harper's Magazine. The editor cites new copyright law as permitting moderately priced collections such as this, the first in a small-format "Fiction, Fact and Fancy Series" from the publishing house founded by Twain. The effort was in vain: bankruptcy came two years later. BAL: 3435 A, with the decorated endpapers.An exceptionally well-preserved first edition first state copy, preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
TWAIN, Mark. Merry Tales. Charles L. Webster, New York, 1892.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first state without inserted portrait, and endpapers printed in faded olive-green pattern. Spine ends a little worn and rubbed, very good.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. Merry Tales. New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892, 1892.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover. Sm 8vo (7.5" x 4.75"), gilt green cloth. viii, 9-209, 7 pp. pub. ads. Early owner's name in pencil on ffep. CONDITION: Very good, spine lightly rubbed and a bit scuffed, some pages with small tears along fore-edge. First edition, in "C" binding with plain white endpapers. BAL 3435.
Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.
TWAIN, Mark. Merry Tales. Charles L. Webster, New York, 1892.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: First printing, binding A without the inserted portrait (as issued). 12mo (19cm). Grey-green cloth stamped in gilt, taupe, and blue; white and grey floral patterned endpapers; [i]-vi [7]-209,[9]; 8pp publisher's ads at rear. Rubbed at edges, lacking front free endpaper, crack to binidng between pp144-145: Good or better. BAL 3435.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. Merry Tales. Charles L Webster & Co., New York, 1892.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Clean bright copy; BAL 3435 state C with plain endpapers and inserted portrait of Twain; period signature Christmas 1893 on front endpaper; green cloth with light rubbing to top and bottom of spine Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Cornelius Muhilly Rare Books, Kansas City, MO, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark.. Merry Tales.. Charles L. Webster & Co., New York., 1892.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: BAL 3435. Very scarce in this condition. Near fine copy (spine lightly sunned, light wear, small book plate). 209 pps. & ads. Gilt decorated hard cover. Green cloth. First edition. Blanck's state "A". Faded green end papers. No frontisportrait.
Seller: BookMine, Fair Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Merry Tales. By Mark Twain. New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892. First Edition First State Green Cloth Decorated Binding, 209 pp, 7.25 x 5.25", 12mo. ***Frontispiece lacking. In fair condition. Cloth boards exhibit normal wear with scuffed edges and worn/bumped corners. Head and tail of spine bumped & cloth beginning to fray, but remains intact. Gilt lettering on spine moderately dulled, but still legible. Gilt lettering and painted deco on front board bring and clean. Front gutter split at title page with exposed cording. Gutter also beginning to split between pages 16 and 17. Top edge bumped from pages 136 to 188. Light toning throughout text-block. Binding is intact, front hinge fragile. Please see photos. A part of Charles L. Webster & Co's Fiction, Fact, and Fancy Series, which also includes The German Emperor and His Eastern Neighbors by Poultney Bigelow; Selected Poems by Walt Whitman; Don Finimondone: Calabrian Sketches by Elisabeth Cavazza. Merry Tales is a collection of Twain's short stories: The Private History of a Campaign That Failed; The Invalid's Story; Luck; The Captain's Story; A Curious Experience; Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning; & Meisterschaft. A first edition first state with presentable binding. Gift quality! RAREA1892BJKB 03/24 - HK1334
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. Merry Tales. Charles L. Webster & Co., New York, 1892.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Merry Tales by Mark Twain. First printing without Twains portrait as the frontispiece. Rebound in dark brown ¾ leather with brown pebble design marbled paper. As new binding. Paper labels. Publisher: Charles L. Webster & Co., New York, 1892. Exceptionally clean copy with gilding on top edge. Slight foxing to and frontispiece page. In general an exceptionally clean copy. 209 pages plus ads in back. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #12-217. Price: $400. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark.. MERRY TALES.. Charles L. Webster: NY, 1892.
Price: US$454.25 + shipping
Description: 7 x 4.75, 209 + ads, blind stamped name and address on title page else vg. FINELY BOUND BY BAYNTUN-RIVIERE IN FULL CRUSHED BROWN MOROCCO, GILT STAMPED SPINE, ALL EDGES GILT, MARBLED END PAPERS, FIRST ED (state unknown but no portrait). "Fiction, Fact, And Fancy Series." A beautiful copy.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
TWAIN, Mark. Merry Tales. Charles L. Webster, 1892.
Price: US$599.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1892 1st/1st Mark TWAIN Merry Tales Fiction Fact Fancy Civil War Short Stories A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. Mark Twain Merry Tales is a collection of short stories by Mark Twain, including: "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed" "The Invalid's Story" "Luck" "The Captain's Story" "A Curious Experience" "Mrs. Mc Williams and the Lightning" "Meisterschaft" This collection of captivating tales displays Twain's characteristic energy, imagination, and sense of fun, as well as the darkly satirical edge that marks so much of his work. The best-known story in this collection is "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed," one of the few pieces Twain ever wrote about his experiences in the Civil War. As Anne Bernays writes in her introduction, "unmatched in the care and handling of tone," "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed" is "a merry tale about shattered innocence and slaughter, an antiwar manifesto that is also confession, dramatic monologue.and a romp that gradually turns into atrocity even as we watch. It is a small masterpiece. Item number: #20796 Price: $599 TWAIN, Mark Merry Tales New York: Charles L. Webster, 1892. First Edition. First State. Details: Collation: Complete with all pages o vi, [7]-209, [9] References: BAL 3435 First Edition Notes: o Pastedown printed in faded olive-green pattern o No inserted portrait frontispiece. Language: English Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure o Light green cloth Size: ~7.25in X 5in (18.5cm x 12.5cm) Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 20796 Photos available upon request.
Seller: Schilb Antiquarian, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.