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Mark Twain. Stolen White Elephant Etc.. Chatto & Windus, London, 1882.
Price: US$12.82 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: In brown leather with gilt titles on red background to spine and marbled covers. Marbled end papers. 285 pages with red flecked edging. The cover is shelf worn to extremities particularly the spine which is torn, up to 2", and heavily rubbed. Very occasional marks to pages but otherwise a clean, unmarked and unread copy.
Seller: Books for Amnesty Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
TWAIN, MARK.. THE STOLEN WHITE ELEPHANT Etc.. Chatto & Windus, London, 1882.
Price: US$49.25 + shipping
Description: 285p + 32p.
Seller: LLIBRERIA KEPOS-CANUDA, Barcelona, Spain
Twain Mark. The Stolen White Elephant. Chatto and Windus, 1882.
Price: US$51.28 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: All books outside UK sent airmail. All books outside UK and over £40 sent tracked and inside UK sent signed for. Paypal accepted. Original red decorated cloth, gilt titling. Some fading top right of front cover and corner wear and covers a little marked, spine a little faded and edge wear, occasional rough marginal opening and some minor soiling, some pages a little marked and foredge a little spotted. Patterned end papers, 32 pages of adverts at end dated July 1882.
Seller: Lavender Fields Books PBFA, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
TWAIN Mark. The stolen white elephant etc.. London: Chatto & Windus (1882)., 1882.
Price: US$76.92 + shipping
Description: First edition with May adverts at rear. Original decorated red cloth covers. In very good condition - an attractive copy.
Seller: Austwick Hall Books, Austwick, United Kingdom
Twain, Mark. The stolen white elephant. Chatto & Windus, London, 1882.
Price: US$98.49 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 285 pag Size: 4L6
Seller: Von Meyenfeldt, Slaats & Sons, Breda, Netherlands
Twain, Mark. The Stolen White Elephant. Chatto & Windus, London, 1882.
Price: US$109.44 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, preeeding the US publication. A very good copy in publishers cloth, neatly rebacked, spine lightly faded. End papers preserved. Previous owners blind stamp on the front end paper, and contemporary signature on title page. First issue withe the 32pp ads dated May 1882.
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
Twain, Mark:. The Stolen White Elephant etc.. London, Chatto & Windus,, 1882.
Price: US$172.91 + shipping
Description: The Stolen White Elephant etc. by Mark Twain, hrsg. Chatto & Windus, London, 1882, EA (first edition), Olwd m. Gold u. Schwarzprägung, 8°, 285 S+32 S Verlagswerbungen, in Englischer Sprache, etwas gebr., leicht schiefgel., Einband etwas lichtfleckig, leicht best. sonst altersgem. guter Zustand., mit einer Widmung aus d. Jahre 1882 auf Vorsatz, rare u. gesuchte Erstausgabe! Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 950
Seller: Alte Bücherwelt, Perg, Austria
Twain, Mark. THE STOLEN WHITE ELEPHANT. , 1882.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Description: London: Chatto & Windus, 1882. 32 pp ads dated May 1882. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition of this collection of tales, which preceded the American edition by about a week (Blanck) or by four days (Johnson). The title tale is Mark Twain's jab at detectives, both in the real world and emerging in the literary world: a white elephant, gift from the King of Siam to the Queen of England, is stolen in (of all places) Jersey City, where the British agent transporting it had stopped to give it a break from travel. Detectives were clearly, and humorously, unprepared for this eventuality. This copy has the ads in the first state -- May 1882 (as opposed to July or October; the book was actually published on June 8th). According to Johnson (but curiously not noted by Blanck), this book appears in two states: this earlier state has a half-title verso list of books that does NOT include this title, and it has a printer's imprint both on the title verso and on p. 285; we have had a copy with July ads where this title IS included on the half-title list, and there are no printer imprints. This book typically has two condition problems: faded spine and loose gatherings (because 1882 was in the middle of the ill-conceived British experiment in binding books with staples rather than with string). This copy does have minor wear at the spine ends, but there is very little fading -- and there is zero loosening of the leaves (though one can see some occasional staple rust, as usual). There is no foxing on the leaves, and the original patterned endpapers are clean and intact. Blanck 3403; Johnson p. 39.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. THE STOLEN WHITE ELEPHANT. , 1882.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Description: London: Chatto & Windus, 1882. 32 pp ads dated May 1882. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition of this collection of tales, which preceded the American edition by about a week (Blanck) or by four days (Johnson). The title tale is Mark Twain's jab at detectives, both in the real world and emerging in the literary world: a white elephant, gift from the King of Siam to the Queen of England, is stolen in (of all places) Jersey City, where the British agent transporting it had stopped to give it a break from travel. Detectives were clearly, and humorously, unprepared for this eventuality. This copy has the ads in the first state -- May 1882 (as opposed to July or October; the book was actually published on June 8th). According to Johnson (but curiously not noted by Blanck), this book appears in two states: this earlier state has a half-title verso list of books that does NOT include this title, and it has a printer's imprint both on the title verso and on p. 285; we have had a copy with July ads where this title IS included on the half-title list, and there are no printer imprints. This book typically has two condition problems: faded spine and loose gatherings (because 1882 was in the middle of the ill-conceived British experiment in binding books with staples rather than with string). This copy has less than the usual amount of fading of the spine, and there is zero loosening of the leaves (though one can see some occasional staple rust, as usual). There is no foxing on the leaves, and the original patterned endpapers are clean and intact. In all, a very collectible copy, with bright gilt and with essentially no external wear or soil -- fine except for the minor fading of the spine and one faint droplet-mark on the rear cover. Blanck 3403; Johnson p. 39.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. THE STOLEN WHITE ELEPHANT. , 1882.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Description: London: Chatto & Windus, 1882. 32 pp ads dated May 1882. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition of this collection of tales, which preceded the American edition by about a week (Blanck) or by four days (Johnson). The title tale is Mark Twain's jab at detectives, both in the real world and emerging in the literary world: a white elephant, gift from the King of Siam to the Queen of England, is stolen in (of all places) Jersey City, where the British agent transporting it had stopped to give it a break from travel. Detectives were clearly, and humorously, unprepared for this eventuality. This copy has the ads in the first state -- May 1882 (as opposed to July or October; the book was actually published on June 8th). According to Johnson (but curiously not noted by Blanck), this book appears in two states: this earlier state has a half-title verso list of books that does NOT include this title, and it has a printer's imprint both on the title verso and on p. 285; we have had a copy with July ads where this title IS included on the half-title list, and there are no printer imprints. This book typically has two condition problems: faded spine and loose gatherings (because 1882 was in the middle of the ill-conceived British experiment in binding books with staples rather than with string). This copy has scarcely any fading of the spine, and there is zero loosening of the leaves (though one can see some occasional staple rust, as usual). There is no foxing on the leaves, and the original patterned endpapers are clean and intact. In all, a very collectible copy, with bright gilt and with essentially no external wear or soil. Blanck 3403; Johnson p. 39. Provenance: armorial bookplate of estate agent, antiquary and book collector George Oakley Fisher (1859-1933), of Sudbury on the River Stour.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$786.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's red cloth, illustration to upper board and spine in black, titles to upper board and spine gilt, patterned endpapers; contemporary gift inscription to half-title leaf, spine very slightly rolled but a very good copy copy. The true first edition preceding the American edition. Uncommon in this condition.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
TWAIN (Mark). The Stolen White Elephant Etc.. Chatto & Windus, London, 1882.
Price: US$890.98 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First UK edition. 8vo. Newly bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full crimson morocco, the covers with a gilt fillet border, the spine lettered and dated in gilt with one line panels and tooled bands, hand-marbled endleaves, gilt edges. Original cover bound in.
Seller: George Bayntun ABA ILAB PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom