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Mark Twain, et al.. The Niagara Book: A Complete Souvenir of Niagara Falls. Underhill and Nichols, Buffalo, 1893.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Description: 18mo; 225pp. First Edition, first issue (3 line copyright, p 226 blank, no ads.BAL3437). Rebound in half-leather and green linen boards with marbeled endpapers. A square, tight and unmarked copy. Leather rubbed at joints and linen boards rubbed and mottled. BAL 3437.

Seller: La Playa Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.

TWAIN, Mark. The Niagara Book. Buffalo, 1893.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: [8], 225, [1] pp. With frontispiece, headpieces and half tone reproductions from sketches by Harry Fenn, and six views reprinted from Gilbert's report of the New York State Reservation. 8vo., bound in original green decorated cloth; scattered spotting but stil a presentable copy. Buffalo: Underhill and Nichols, 1893. First Edition. A souvenir collection of original stories, essays and sketches by prominent American authors about Niagara Falls. Twain's contribution is a humorous sketch in which Niagara Falls Park is Eden entitled The Earliest Authentic Mention of Niagara Falls. Extracts from Adam's Diary Translated from the Original Manuscript. Johnson 128. BAL 3437.

Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.

HOWELLS, William Dean, Mark Twain, and Nathaniel S. Shaler, et al. (contributors). The Niagara Book: A Complete Souvenir of Niagara Falls, Containing Sketches, Stories and Essays - Descriptive, Humorous, Historical and Scientific, Written Exclusively for This Book. Underhill and Nichols, Buffalo, 1893.

Price: US$220.00 + shipping

Description: Blanck's Fourth Printing, with copyright notice in 2 lines, with the additional notice, p.226 blank, and no terminal ads. Octavo (17.75cm); light green cloth, wiht titling and decorations stamped in silver and red on spine and front cover; [vi],225,[3]pp, with frontispiece and 18 half-tone illustrations. A fresh, Fine copy. Superb copy of this souvenir book on Niagara Falls, with notable contributions being "Niagara, First and Last" by Howells, and "The First Authentic Mention of Niagara Falls," by Mark Twain - the first appearance of Extracts from Adam's Diary (1904). BAL 3437.

Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.

Twain, Mark; Howells, W.D.. The Niagara Book, Illustrated. Underhill and Nichols, Buffalo, 1893.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Paper covers, fifth printing as described in BAL 3437, copyright notice in two lines, with page 226 imprinted 'Advertisements'. Slight loss to head and tail of spine and darkening of covers. Contains the first appearance of 'Extracts from Adam's Diary'. Very Good. $225.

Seller: B Street Books, ABAA and ILAB, San Mateo, CA, U.S.A.

HOWELLS, W.D., TWAIN, Mark, SHALER, Nathaniel S. and others.. The Niagara Book: A Complete Souvenir of Niagara Falls. Containing Sketches, Stories and Essays. Underhill and Nichols, Buffalo, 1893.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 12mo hardcover volume in green silver embossed cloth boards. Spine and boards tight and sharp with no wear. Front board has some soiling across bottom. Endpapers not split with one book plate. A bit of toning front and back from a dust jacket not present. 1st edition later printing page 226 blank and no ads.Contents solid with no stains or markings.

Seller: Antique Emporium, Eau Claire, WI, U.S.A.

(TWAIN, Mark).. The Niagara Book A Complete Souvenir of Niagara Falls Containing Scketches, Stories and Essays—Descriptive, Humorous, Historica and Scientific, Written Exclusively for This Book By W.D. Howells, Mark Twain, Prof. Nathaniel S. Shaler and Others. Fully Illustrated by Harry Fenn.. Underhill and Nichols, Buffalo, 1893.

Price: US$361.41 + shipping

Description: First edition. Sm. 8vo., orig. light green cloth stamped in red, with pictorial decoration in silver on the upper cover, (viii), 225pp. With magazine clippings tipped to free e/papers and blanks, bookplate but o/w a fine copy. BAL 3437

Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada

Howells, W. D.; Twain, Mark; Shaler, Nathaniel S.; et al.. THE NIAGARA BOOK: A COMPLETE SOUVENIR OF NIAGARA FALLS. Underhill and Nichols, Buffalo, 1893.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, [1]-[226] pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in green cloth with red lettering and silver stamped decoration. Boards have sunning to spine, bending to spine edges, staining to front cover, and slight bowing to edges. Textblock has light age toning and creasing to gutters of pages 124 to 128. First Printing indicated by copyright note on 3 lines, p. 226 blank, and no terminal advertisements. Shelved Room A. BAL 3437. 1372605. Special Collections.

Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.

HOWELLS, W.D., TWAIN, Mark, SHALER, Nathaniel S. and others.. The Niagara Book: A Complete Souvenir of Niagara Falls. Containing Sketches, Stories and Essays - Descriptive, Humorous, Historical and Scientific, Written Exclusively for this Book.. Underhill and Nichols, Buffalo, 1893.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Description: 225 pp. 12mo, publisher's decorated green cloth in dust jacket (which has been supplied from another copy). First edition, first printing. BAL 3437. A few small blemishes to the cloth; but an attractive, tight and sound copy. The dust jacket is lightly dust-soiled and tanned at the spine, with a few tiny chips and is splitting along several folds.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

W. D. Howells, Mark Twain, Nathaniel S. Shaler. THE NIAGARA BOOK. Underhill and Nichols, New York, 1893.

Price: US$2089.45 + shipping

Description: Very Good+ in boards. Toned spine. ; Personalized by Coleman Sellers on FEP.

Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] et al. THE NIAGARA BOOK. Underhill & Nichols, Buffalo, 1893.

Price: US$6250.00 + shipping

Description: Publisher's decorated green cloth stamped in brown and silver. SIGNED by the book's most famous contributor "Truly yours, Mark Twain" on the first blank. BAL 3437: Fourth Printing. Contains the first appearance of Twain's "Extracts from Adam's Diary, Translated from the Original MS," on pages [93]-109. This copy also has an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED from each of three of the other contributors--David Day, Edward Martin, and Peter Porter--laid in. Also laid in is an old catalogue description from Charles Sessler, Bookseller. The endpapers and preliminaries, including the front blank with Twain's signature, have been strengthened with Japanese tissue paper in the gutters. The Porter letter detached at one fold but all present. Spine a little darkened, still a bright copy. Near Fine

Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.