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Mark Twain; Bernard deVoto (ed). The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The Limited Editions Club, 1939.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 165/1500cc, signed by the artist, Thomad Hart Benton. Light shelfwear. Clipping from the Kansas City Times from 1939 profiling the publication of this title, so two pages are browned from the paper.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]. THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER. Limited Editions Club, Cambridge, 1939.
Price: US$437.50 + shipping
Description: Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-1/2") bound in full blue denim with a paper spine label. Edited with an introduction by Bernard DeVoto. Designed by C. P. Rollins. Illustrated with 70 drawings by Thomas Hart Benton. Copy #323 of 1500 copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Sporadic foxing, mostly light, a few pages with marginal stains. Spine lightly sunned, as often the case with some wrinkling to the label. Very Good, lacking the slipcase
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cambridge: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club at the University Press, 1939. First Thus, Limited to 1500 copies, though this copy unnumbered. Signed by Thomas Hart Benton at colophon. Octavo; publisher's full blue denim, printed paper spine label, top edge stained yellow; housed in publisher's slipcase; xxx,[2],340pp.; two-toned illlus. throughout, many full-paged. Boards lightly edgeworn with smudging to title spine label. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Slipcase exposed and cracked along edges, bottom edge nearly detached. A Very Good or better copy in a Very Good minus slipcase. First edition to include the prologue "Boy's Manuscript."
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]. THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER. Limited Editions Club, Cambridge, 1939.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-1/2") bound in full blue denim with a paper spine label. Edited with an introduction by Bernard DeVoto. Designed by C. P. Rollins. Illustrated with 70 drawings by Thomas Hart Benton. Copy #665 of 1500 copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Browning to two facing pages from a clipping that was once laid in. Spine lightly sunned, as often the case with some soiling to the label. Still Near Fine, lacking the slipcase
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]. THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER. Limited Editions Club, Cambridge, 1939.
Price: US$625.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-1/2") bound in full blue denim with a paper spine label. Edited with an introduction by Bernard DeVoto. Designed by C. P. Rollins. Illustrated with 70 drawings by Thomas Hart Benton. Copy #440 of 1500 copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Spine lightly sunned, as often the case. Near Fine in a Good slipcase missing the bottom edge
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]. THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER. Limited Editions Club, Cambridge, 1939.
Price: US$625.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-1/2") bound in full blue denim with a paper spine label. Edited with an introduction by Bernard DeVoto. Designed by C. P. Rollins. Illustrated with 70 drawings by Thomas Hart Benton. Copy #1257 of 1500 copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Just a touch of sunning to the spine. About Fine, lacking the slipcase
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. Bound in blue denim. Paper label on the spine, yellowed but complete. 340 pages + introduction and 'Boy's Manuscript' (published here for the first time). Binding tight. Pages clean and square. A limited edition of unspecified size (usually LEC editions are 1,500 copies) of which this is number 210. Signed by Thomas Hart Benton (merely 'Benton') on the limitation page at the rear. The illustrations are black and white with a sepia wash. A scarce LEC title, in very good condition.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.