Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$47.77 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1894. HEAVY COVER WEAR. FOXING. TORN-OUT PAGE. CRACKED/BROKEN HINGES. TEARS. STAINS. An acceptable hardcover copy with previous owner's name multiple times throughout text. Foxing on page-edges. Front end-page is torn out but IS included. Multiple pages have small tears and stains on them. Multiple hinges are cracked, and front hinge is broken with cover falling away from binding. Cover is rubbed, smudged, and lightly faded. Corners and edges are moderately bumped and rubbed, beginning to show cardboard in some places. No dust jacket. No ISBN. Booksavers receives donated books and recycles them in a variety of ways. Proceeds benefit the work of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) in the U.S. and around the world.
Seller: Booksavers of MD, Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$56.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Owner's name on title page. No other writing. Text is clean. Cover is worn on edges and front board is taped on. Marginal illustrations.
Seller: Grandma Betty's Books, West Salem, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$116.06 + shipping
Description: Hartford CT: American Publishing 1894. Roy. 8vo. Orig. dec. cloth. gilt-lettered on front cover and spine. 432pp. With frontisp. and marginal illusts. throughout. Inscription on front end-paper. 1st edition. Bal. 3442.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: First edition. Covers worn, with plastic laminated around it. Names written inside front cover and front endpaper. Hinges cracked. Spine shaken. Last few pages taped in. As-Is.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Tape repair to top and bottom of spine , soiled boards, cracked hinges, foxing Illustrations on almost every page, but somecould be viewed as offensive DATE PUBLISHED: 1894 EDITION: 432
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition, 1st issue with facsimile signature correct size, bound-in title page, pages bulk to 1 1/8". Decorated cloth, 9x6", 432 pp., author photo frontispiece with tissue guard, b&w marginal illus. VG, clean & tight, no dj.
Seller: Aardvark Book Depot, Shorewood, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$199.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first state. PO pencilled gift inscription, paper split at inner hinges, front hinge loose, rear hinge still fairly strong. Small piece missing from backstrip at crown, rubbing to heel and points, few minor stains to covers. Leaves clean and uncreased. Tissued frontis. First edition points: the page block is 1 and 1/8 inches thick; the title page is not tipped in; first state frontis portrait with facsimile autograph one and seven-sixteenths inches wide. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: With marginal illustrations. Large 8vo, brick red cloth stamped in black & gilt. Hartford: American Publishing Co., 1894. First Edition. The corners and extremes of spine have been repaired; inner front hinge starting. Presumed second issue.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$230.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 432 pages : frontispiece. This is a satisfactory copy of the first issue (with all points) of Mark Twain's caustic observations about racism and slavery. The publisher's russet cloth-covered binding is sturdy and attractive, its black- and gold-stamped lettering and designs distinct, its corners and the head and foot of its spine lightly worn; glue residue at front and rear pastedowns, rear inner hinge cracked, tissue guard for frontispiece foxed, contents unmarked and attractive. 1040 grams.
Seller: Carothers and Carothers, Albany, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: frontis, illustrations in margins, 432p. Original brick colored cloth. 23cm. Backstrip has narrow uniform loss of top edge, some wear and minor loss of cloth at bottom and the gilt is almost entirely gone from publisher's name at base.Some weat at corners with modest loss of cloth. Internally sound and clean. An attractive copy. An entertaining and rather clever tale that somehow never captivated the public as well as the best of Twain even though it contains his inimitable mix of bigotry, prejudice, and other human frailties. Perhaps it is just because the tale is relatively short and less entertaining or maybe it is just that we like many of his other heroes more than Pudd'nhead. Most of the tale revolves around a good African American twin and a bad white twin, but Twain adds a twist. Blanck's BAL 3442. 1st Amer. ed. 1st state (sheets bulk 1 1/8" and so on).
Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover. 8vo (9" x 6.25"), original gilt brown cloth. Tissue-guarded frontis., 432 pp., marginal illus. throughout. CONDITION: Near-fine, slightly cocked. First edition, first state, with frontis. in Blanck's "State A," BAL 3442. Contains the first literary depiction of detectives using fingerprints to solve a murder case. Also one of Twain's major treatments of racial tensions and interracial camaraderie.
Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.
CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.. Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Tw. , 1894.
Price: US$287.50 + shipping
Description: [CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.] The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins. By Mark Twain. Hartford, 1894. [4], 15-432 p. Frontis. Illus. Half black morocco, edges gilt. Binding worn but sound--a good plus copy. First American edition, with all of the earliest issue points, in the uncommon half morocco publisher's binding. BAL 3442.
Seller: Joseph J. Felcone Inc., ABAA, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: frontis, illustrations in margins, 432p. Original brick colored cloth. 23cm. Some rubbing along extremities plus some soiling on top edge and minor white paint marks on bottom edge. An appealing copy. An entertaining and rather clever tale that somehow never captivated the public as well as the best of Twain even though it contains his inimitable mix of bigotry, prejudice, and other human frailties. Perhaps it is just because the tale is relatively short and less entertaining or maybe it is just that we like many of his other heroes more than Pudd'nhead. Most of the tale revolves around a good African American twin and a bad white twin, but Twain adds a twist. Blanck's BAL 3442. 1st Amer. ed. 1st state (sheets bulk 1 1/4").
Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First printing. Covers worn, especially around edges of spine. Bookplate inside front cover. Gift inscription on front free end paper.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$330.00 + shipping
Description: BAL 3442; Johnson page 59. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy (spine tips lightly worn). [6], 15-432 pages, Brown-red cloth over boards, decorative front cover and spine stamped in gold and black. Hardcover. First edition. First issue. Frontispiece autograph is state A (17/16" wide).
Seller: BookMine, Fair Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 432 pp., Front inner hinge partially cracked but still tight; light rubbing to spine tips., First state with integral title page, text block 1 1/8" thick and facsimile signature under frontispiece measuring 1 7/16". Very good copy in the original decorated cloth
Seller: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Frontispiece of Twain leaning on house post. 432 pages. Brown cloth, heavy book with embossed design, gilt fairly bright but lightly rubbed on front, duller on spine, very slight wear to tips, very slight wear to spine top edge, tiny tears with light wear to spine bottom edge. Very Good.
Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$358.00 + shipping
Description: One of Twain's major statements, a satire of small town politics, religion, slavery, and racism. Beautifully illustrated with small vignette illustrations in the text throughout. In the second printing, the gatherings are uniformly signed, the title-page is a singleton printed on slightly different paper than the paper used in the text, and the sheets bulk 1 1/4 inches. 8vo, [6], 15-432pp, brown cloth with gilt titles and black decoration on front and spine. Frontis of Mark Twain. Small tidemark at ffep, foot of frontispiece and tissue. Spine dusty, ruffled at head, otherwise clean and bright.
Seller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. PUDD'NHEAD WILSON. Chatto & Windus, London, 1894.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK edition (technically published slightly before the US first edition) of Twain's tale of twins, role switching, comedy and tragedy - all set in the small Missouri town of Hannibal before the Civil War. To the surprise of many modern readers, the clever aphorisms for which Twain is well known today are few and far between in his novels - with an important exception in this book, which uses the witticisms as headers in every chapter. Additionally, the theme of the oppressions and immorality of slavery is prominent in this story about Roxy, an enslaved woman who switches her son with the child of a slave holder to prevent him from being sold. Difficult to find in this condition. 7.5'' x 5.5''. Original red cloth stamped in black. Publisher's catalogue at rear dated September 1894. Illustrated by James Mapes Dodge with a photo frontispiece of Twain and with 6 black-and-white plates by Louis Loeb. xii, 246, [2], 32 pages. Sliver of archival paper repair to fore-edge of frontispiece and title page; one sprung plate professionally re-tipped in. A few tiny pinpricks on boards, light sunning to spine.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 432 pp., Short tear to cloth at foot of spine., First state with integral title page, text block 1 1/8" thick and facsimile signature under frontispiece measuring 1 7/16". Very good copy in the original decorated cloth
Seller: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo, 432 pages, brown cloth, bright gilt top cover and spine, frontispiece lacks top 1.5 inches, 4 tiny diamond-shaped punches in preliminary leaves, inked name on flyleaf partially disguised, light smudge on half-title page; with brown cloth chemise in quarter-morocco solander case. Preceded by the British edition, it adds the TWINS portion. 1st printing, with integral title-leaf and state A of frontispiece ( with the narrower facsimile Twain signature), sheets bulk 1 1/8" [BAL 3442; McBride 170]. With charming marginal illustrations on every page. The twins are Siamese twins - one a slave, one free-born.
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: With marginal illustrations. First American edition, first issue with correct points: title page integrally bound, sheets bulk to one and 1/8 inches, author's facsmilie signature under the frontispiece measures one and 7/16 inches. Octavo, bound in brown cloth, with gilt lettering and black decoration on front baord and spine. Corners slightly bumped, trace shelf wear, fading to lower corner area of rear board, else at least very good. Binding is solid.; 432 pages
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: With Marginal Illustrations. Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1894. First American edition, BAL first state (with sheets bulking about 11/8 inches, and with title leaf conjugate with leaf 3). Octavo. [6], 15-432 pp. Frontispiece portrait (with facsimile autograph 1 7/16 inches wide). Title-page printed in red and black. Original brown cloth decoratively stamped in black and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Edges sprinkled brown. Original drab gray endpapers. Some mild wear to cloth, mainly at edges and head and tail of spine. Previous owner's ink signature on front free endpaper. Some light toning. Some of the illustrations are lightly hand-colored. Overall a very good copy. "In this book the author returns to his native Mississippi River of before the War with its background of a few wealthy slave holding families. The story revolves about the changing of infants in the cradle and a final uncovering of the act by the protagonist, Pudd'nhead Wilson, by means of fingerprinting" (Johnson). BAL 3442. McBride, p. 170. Johnson, Twain, pp. 59-61. HBS 67941. $400.
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with the sheets bulking 1 1/8". FIRST STATE of the frontispiece with the facsimile autograph 1 7/16" wide. In the publisher's original three-quarter green morocco over marbled boards, with marbled endpapers and gilt edges. Scuffed and shelfworn but still a Good to Very Good copy in an uncommon and desirable binding. Internally very clean BAL 3442.
Seller: Clarel Rare Books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Very good+ in the publisher's original decorated brown cloth covered boards with black decorations and gilt text on the spine and front board with tan-gray end sheets. The cloth at the head, heel and tips of the boards is rubbed and lightly worn with a prior owner's small book plate on the front paste down and with an earlier prior owner's name written in ink on the first free end page along with several stray ink marks. At the top of the front paste down the original owner has written a date of "6/ /95" in ink. Without a dust jacket. This is the first state of the first edition as evidenced by the bulk of the text block measuring 1 1/8" and with the frontispiece tipped-in and with the facsimile signature of Twain measuring 1 7/16" wide on the frontispiece. (BAL 3442 & McBride p. 170) 432 pages of text with marginal line art illustrations throughout. First published in the Century Magazine of December, 1893 to June, 1894. Overall, an extremely handsome and clean copy.
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. THE TRAGEDY OF PUDD'NHEAD WILSON. And the comedy THOSE EXTRAORDINARY TWINS. , 1894.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Description: With Marginal Illustrations. Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1894. Original terra-cotta cloth decorated in black. First Edition, first printing, of "Those Extraordinary Twins," which had not yet been published in the U.K.; First American Edition, first printing, of "Pudd'nhead Wilson," which had appeared a few weeks earlier in Britain. PUDD'NHEAD is a fascinating antebellum tale about two babies (one white and one "slightly" black) switched shortly after birth, one of whom ultimately sells his own mother into slavery in order to pay off his gambling debts. This novel has come to be regarded, along with HUCKLEBERRY FINN, as one of Twain's strongest statements on the subjects of miscegenation and on the degenerative impact of slavery. (Twain spun off "Those Extraordinary Twins" from the PUDD'NHEAD manuscript, when he realized that his planned comedy had turned into a tragedy.) This copy is from the first printing, with the leaves bulking a scant 1-1/8 inches and with gatherings 1, 2, 4, 6, 7 & 8 unsigned. The printed Twain signature on the frontispiece measures 1-7/16" wide (no priority). It is a near-fine copy, with minor wear at the foot of the spine and occasional thumbing of some page margins; the original endpapers are clean and intact. McBride p. 170; Blanck 3442.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$480.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Early edition. Marginal illustrations and Twain portrait as frontispiece, with facsimile signature. Inside contents are fine, but front cover is barely attached, bound in sheepskin with leather title and author labels on spine, title label is torn and chipped, corners worn.
Seller: Illustrated Bookshelf, Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: The Tragedy of Puddnhead Wilson And the Comedy of Those Extraordinary Twins by Mark Twain with Marginal Illustrations, American Publishing Company, Hartford, Conn., 1894, frontis photo of Twain, 431 pp, publishers decorative rust cloth, 9 x 6, 8vo. In fair condition. Light wear to extremities with minor scuffing to corners and end bands. Light soiling overall to surface of cloth. Gilt lettering and black embossing remains clean and bright. Spine darkened and soiled. Gilt is tarnished and rubbed. Heavy loss at head with cord exposed. Fraying along tail. Cloth is cracking at center of spine. Front gutter tender with binding mesh exposed. Chipped fly. Interior good with light toning and minor instances of foxing. Free of markings or ownership. Rear gutter poor and split. Will require minor restoration if handled regularly. Binding shaken. Please see photos. First U.S. edition profusely illustrated in the marigns. Notable of course for its very early use of fingerprints in fiction to solve a crime, but also of Twains most philosophical works and a strong comment of society that permits slavery.
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: "The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson". Published by the American Publishing Company in 1894. Measures 9" x 5-¾". First edition, first issue with the sheets bulking to about 1-?"; With the title page clearly conjugate; With State A of the frontispiece signature measuring 1-7/16" wide (BAL 3442). Near fine copy with the gilt lettering very well preserved. Wear to the corners and the tail of the spine. Pages are clean, bright and tight. The date "1896" is written in ink in longhand on the front endpaper. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson. American Publishing Co., Hartford, 1894.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Conjugate title page; sheets 1 1/8", faces 1 7/16" wide.
Seller: By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Thick octavo, 432 pages; VG-; in publisher's brown cloth with black tooling and gilt titling; slight bumping to corners; boards have some soiling and discoloration, fraying and two small holes to tail of spine; some rubbing to lower edges of boards; binding slightly cracked at signature breaks; mild finger smudges; frontispiece photograph of Twain; beautiful engravings framing every page; with a short introduction by Mark Twain; First state, with conjugate title page, gatherings 1-2, 4, 6-8 unsigned, frontispiece with facsimile signature 1-7/16 inches wide, text block measuring 1 1/8 inches; the preferred American edition, published simultaneously with the English; shelved case 2. 1349538. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 432 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in red-brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Minor shelf wear. Rubbing to edges. Cloth fraying to head and tail of spine. Textblock dyed speckled brown, with top edge dyed full brown. Age-toning to interior pages. Features marginal illustrations throughout, signed by F.M. Senior. Signed by previous owner on recto of frontispiece. BAL 3442. Shelved in Case 13. 1376178. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. Collated and Complete. All first state points present in regards bulk, title leave, and facsimile signature. BAL 3442. Mild wear to extremities, front hinge a touch loose, tape repair to upper corner of ffep. Overall a near fine copy of this American classic. Full brick red leather, stamped in black and gilt, speckled edges First edition, first printing, first state.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition (1894 on copyright page). With numerous, charming marginal illustrations throughout the text. Second State with the text sheets bulking 1.25". VG+ in brick-red woven cloth stamped brightly and elaborately in gilt and black on the front boards and the spine. There is the lightest touch of wear to the top and bottom of the spine ends but heavy rubbing at the corners. A surprisingly clean, tight, and handsome copy. First Edition (1894 on copyright page).
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens). Pudd'nhead Wilson. American Publishing Company, Hartford, Conn., 1894.
Price: US$556.86 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and The Comedy of Those Extraordinary Twins, with marginal illustrations, beautifully decorated cloth, 432 pages, page 363 has a previous fold mark where someone most likely was saving their place when reading the book. Sheets bulk to about 1 1/8" and it appears that the title page is clearly joined to the next leaf as called for in the First Editiion/Issue.
Seller: Barry's Books, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$569.25 + shipping
Description: Marginal illustr, 8.75 x 5.75, 432 pp, vg. FINELY BOUND BY BAYNTUN-RIVIERE IN FULL CRUSHED BROWN MOROCCO, GILT STAMPED SPINE, ALL EDGES GILT, MARBLED END PAPERS, FIRST ED. FIRST STATE. (sheets bulk 1.25"). A beautiful copy.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small 4to. Pp. 431. Portrait frontis. Black-and-white margin illustrations throughout. Marbled endpapers. In the publisher's dark green three-quarter green morocco over marbled boards. Gilt lettering, ornaments and rules in spine compartments. AEG. Spine sunned to brown, scuffs to front board, light edge-wear. Contemporary newspaper clippings germane to Twain pasted to front endpapers. Withal, a tight copy in very good binding. First American edition, first state with all the points noted in BAL. Quite scarce in the publisher's morocco binding.Originally published serially in Century Magazine, the first edition was issued in Britain the same year as Pudd'nhead Wilson a Tale but lacking Those Extraordinary Twins. BAL 3442. JOHNSON (third ed.), p. 106. .
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson. American Publishing Company, Hartford, 1894.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, first issue. Frontispiece State A. Tissue guard and title-page slightly foxed. Hinges very firm.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: 432 pp. With Marginal Illustrations. First edition, first printing. BAL 3442. Old ink gift inscription; very slight use at extremities.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$690.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: (1st) Frontispiece photograph of Twain leaning on house post, with facsimile signature. Brown cloth, gilt on front bright with ornate design, less bright on spine, very tiny nick at bottom back tip, light wear to other three tips, micronick at each spine edges with light wear, Near Fine.
Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1894 Mark Twain 1st/1st Tragedy of Pudd nhead Wilson Humor Comedy Slavery RARE Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson A rare first edition of Mark Twain s satire novel The Tragedy of Pudd nhead Wilson . Told in typical Twain fashion, infants switched at birth reveal their true colors as DNA encoding takes precedence over environment. Set during the early years of the 19th century, this pre-Civil War satire tackles social commentary issues still being debated today. Twain presents the reader with a light-skinned black mother switching her infant with her white master's in order to prevent her own child being raised as a slave. Twain uses humor and irony in revealing seething levels of racism and classicism. This first edition meets the expected points for the first state of this book. See below for details. Item number: #30786 Price: $750 TWAIN, Mark The tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson: and the comedy Those extraordinary twins Hartford, Conn.: American Pub. Co., 1894. First edition, first printing Details: Collation: Complete with all pages o 432 o Heavily illustrated throughout References: BAL 3442 Note on edition: o Title-page in black and red o Title leaf conjugate o Page size: 8 ¾ scant x 5 ¾ o Issued in cloth o Sheet bulk about 1 1/8 Provenance: Bookplate Larchmont Yacht Club o Presented by Marmaduke Tilden Esq. Language: English Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure o Decorative cloth Size: ~9in X 6.25in (23cm x 16cm) 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! 30786 Photos available upon request.
Seller: Schilb Antiquarian, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: The Tragedy of Puddnhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins by Mark Twain. First printing with 1 1/8 inch bulking and publishing date on both the title-page and copyright page. Rebound in dark brown ¾ leather with brown pebble design marbled paper. As new binding. Paper labels. Publisher: American Publishing Company, Hartford, 1894. Exceptionally clean copy with gilding on top edge. 432 pages. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #12-205. Price: $750. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition first state with 1 1/8" text block and tipped-in frontispiece on heavier stock, meets all first issue points, no markings, binding tight pages bright, publisher's scarce issue in half morocco and marbled boards, a.e.g. (BAL 3442); panels rubbed, spine leather rubbed & worn at edges & extremities, name & small bookseller stamp to edge of first white page, an excellent clean tight copy; 8vo; 432pp with marginal illustrations to every page; marbled endpapers
Seller: Nighttown Books, South Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Thick octavo, 432 pages. In Very Good condition.Bound in publisher's brown cloth with black tooling and gilt titling. Slight bumping to corners. Boards show minimal soiling and very mild rubbing to lower edges. Frontispiece photograph of Twain included, along with beautiful engravings framing every page. With a short introduction by Mark Twain. First state, with conjugate title page, gatherings 1-2, 4, 6-8 unsigned, frontispiece with facsimile signature 1-7/16 inches wide, and text block measuring 1 1/8 inches. The preferred American edition, published simultaneously with the English. Shelved in Case 2. 1349537. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 23 cm; 432 pages, including half-tone photo frontispiece. Marginal illustrations in text. In rust brown decorated cloth. Issue point: text block measures 1 1/8 inches (about 3 cm). Small abrasion on lower edge of upper board, owner's name in pencil on pastedown, else about fine. BAL 3442 Kevin MacDonnell wrote in "Firsts Magazine" (1998) "This complex novel . has become accepted in recent years as one of his major statements, and is thematically linked to HUCK FINN. The story begins when a slave woman switches her baby son with the baby infant of her master, and ends when her son murders his uncle and is put on trial where his true identify is revealed. Along the way, Twain explores the philosophy of determinism, and examines the culture of his Mississippi youth: small-town provincialism, miscegenation, the degenerative impact of slavery on master and slave, and parents who fail their children.
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio, ABAA, Tuxedo, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Handsomely bound in the publisher's original terra cotta cloth brightly decorated with gilt and embossed floral designs on the front boards and on the spine. With very bright gilt and decorations on the spine with the merest touch of wear to the extremities. Very clean and tight throughout. This is the first issue with the title page clearly joined to the next leaf (conjugate); and the sheets bulk about 1". Mark Twain's satire humorously and pointedly lambastes everything from small-town politics and religious beliefs to slavery and racism. A desirable collector's copy of this mystery notable for its very early use of fingerprints to solve a crime. The first part of the novel seems to satirize racism in antebellum Missouri by exposing the fragility of the dividing line between white and black. The new Tom Driscoll is accepted by a family with high Virginian ancestry as its own, and he grows up to be corrupt, self-interested, and distasteful.[2] The reader does not know, at the end of the story, whether Tom's behavior results from nature or nurture. Naturalistic readings risk framing the story as a vindication of racism based on biological differences too subtle to be seen. (The essentialism is not reciprocal, however. Chambers adapts well to life as a slave and fails to successfully assume his proper place as a high-class white.)[3] The novel features the technological innovation of the use of fingerprints as forensic evidence. "The reader knows from the beginning who committed the murder, and the story foreshadows how the crime will be solved. The circumstances of the denouement, however, possessed in its time great novelty, for fingerprinting had not then come into official use in crime detection in the United States. Even a man who fooled around with it as a hobby was thought to be a simpleton, a puddnhead. Wikipedia First Edition with matching dates of 1894 on the title and copyright pages.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Senior, F.M. First book edition of the combined works, "Puddn'head Wilson" having appeared alone in 1894 in London, first state of the text, frontispiece with the facsimile signature being 1-7/16 inches. Frontispiece portrait of Clemens with facsimile signature in lower margin, illustrated throughout in the margins by F. M. Senior. 432, [2, blank] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. BAL 3442; McBride, p. 170; Johnson, Twain, pp. 59-61 Original brown cloth, decorated in black, lettred in gilt. Near fine. In quarter blue morocco slipcase and chemise Frontispiece portrait of Clemens with facsimile signature in lower margin, illustrated throughout in the margins by F. M. Senior. 432, [2, blank] pp. 1 vols. 8vo First book edition of the combined works, "Puddn'head Wilson" having appeared alone in 1894 in London, first state of the text, frontispiece with the facsimile signature being 1-7/16 inches.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$775.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: BAL 3442 with 1st Issue Sheets. A Fine copy in reddish brown cloth over thick boards, stamped in gilt and black at spine and front cover. Tiny spot of wear to edge of heel of spine, else a clean copy with no marks, no foxing, no dog-ears or tears, gilt bright, binding sound with no splits. 432pp. with line illustrations throughout. Q16682
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$776.00 + shipping
Description: THE TRAGEDY OF PUDD'NHEAD WILSON AND THE COMEDY OF THOSE EXTRAORDINARY TWINS, American Publishing Company, 1894, first edition (first issue), a near fine copy in the publishers original decorated binding. A HAYCRAFT / QUEEN cornerstone marking for the first time the use of fingerprints in a work of mystery / detective fiction.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$935.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. 432 pp. Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering and black decorations on the spine and the front board. Frontispiece portrait of the author with tissue guard, marginal illustrations throughout, full-page illustration preceding "Those Extraordinary Twins". First edition, first state. BAL 3442. The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson is a novel satirizing small town life, slavery, and racism and is generally regarded as one of Twain's most important later works. The related novella "Those Extraordinary Twins" is perhaps of more historical interest for its insights into Twain's writing process, but is representative of his lighter farce. A very handsome copy of this high spot of American literature. A few hints of rubbing to the extremities, contemporary ownership inscription (dated 1894) on the first blank leaf. but overall a very bright and clean copy.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 432p octavo. illustrated. First state text block measuring 1 1/8" thick, and frontispiece tipped in on thicker stock. Scarce printing in publisher's 3/4 morocco and marbled boards, top edge gilt. corners rubbed, a very good copy Non-authorial incription on second blank.
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Contemporary owner's inscription; a fine copy. A crime novel featuring the first fictional use of fingerprints. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1045.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue with the book bulking to 1 1/8", State A of the frontispiece with Twains signature measuring 1 7/16" wide. Titlepage in red and black, with delightful illustrations in the margins to nearly every page. 8vo, publishers original rust-colored cloth decorated extensively in gilt and black on the upper cover and spine. 432pp. A lovely copy with only a bit of wear to the spine tips. A VERY HANDSOME AND PLEASING COPY OF THE FIRST ISSUE OF TWAINS BITING YET COMEDIC COMMENTARY ON SLAVERY AND THE ROLE OF RACE IN AMERICAN SOCIETY. It is a short novel featuring the brilliantly crafted character Roxanna, a mulatto slave who suffers dire consequences after switching her infant son with her masters baby, and the clever Puddnhead Wilson, an ostracized small-town lawyer. Twains darkly comic masterpiece is a provocative exploration of slavery and miscegenation. In the words of Langstone Hughes, "Mark Twain, in his presentation of Negroes as human beings, stands head and shoulders above the other Southern writers of his times." Included in the publication is Those Extraordinary Twins, the slapstick and irrelevant story that evolved into Puddnhead Wilson. By including it the publisher provided us with a fascinating view of the authors process.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: 431 pages. Illustrated. Octavo. First U. S. Edition, First Issue: all BAL first issue points: integral title page; frontispiece with Twain's facsimile autograph measuring 1 7/16" wide; and text block bulking to 1 1/8". Mark Twain's novel, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, is an important complement to Huckleberry Finn. Although he began writing the book as a comedy, it soon became clear that it actually was a serious statement on slavery, race relations, and miscegenation. When Pudd'nhead Wilson was published, Twain bound it with the novella The Comedy of Those Extraordinary Twins, which was the author's humorous take that had been his original objective. The book is clean and tight, with signature and date (April 1899) of previous owner on the front endpapers. Minor foxing on title page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Tennyson Williams Books and Fine Art, Williamsburg, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; first state. In the very scarce publisher's 3/4 morocco and marbled boards with a gilt-decorated spine; bookplate; minor rubbing; very good plus; in a cloth slipcase. Haycraft-Queen cornerstone; featuring the first fictional use of fingerprints. This novel successfully straddled two literary traditions. The recurrent (in the 19th century and earlier) theme of mistaken identity or mixed up birth (i.e. this author's own earlier book The Prince and the Pauper) is resolved in this story by the very modern forensic science employing fingerprints. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo. 6.25 x 9 inches. 432 pp. With marginal illustrations. Near fine in the publisher's deluxe binding of three-quarter pebble grain morocco over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, aeg. Considerably scarcer in this binding, and attractive thus.
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.
TWAIN, Mark. The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson And the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins. , 1894.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Frontispiece portrait; illustrated with numerous line drawings in the margins. Rubricated title. 432pp. Tall thick 8vo, handsomely rebound in full brick morocco, t.e.g. Hartford: American Publishing Co., 1894. First Edition. A fine copy.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1562.50 + shipping
Description: Publisher's decorated rust brown cloth. With all first printing points described in BAL 3442. Profusely illustrated in the margins. Notable of course for its very early use of fingerprints in fiction to solve a crime, but also one of Twain's most philosophical works and a strong comment on a society that permits slavery. Faint rubbing to rear. Fine, tight copy and uncommon thus
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1603.34 + shipping
Description: First US edition, first state, with the text block measuring 1 1/8 inches and the title leaf conjugate, not tipped in, and Twain's facsimile signature to the frontispiece. It was originally published in the UK the same year. BAL 3442. Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt, arabesque designs in black, buff endpapers, edges speckled red. Housed in a custom quarter morocco and brown cloth pull-off box. Portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard, title page printed red and black, marginal illustrations throughout. A little bubbling to front cover, contents fresh. An excellent copy in bright cloth.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1875.00 + shipping
Description: Publisher's decorated rust brown cloth. With all first printing points described in BAL 3442. Profusely illustrated in the margins. Notable of course for its very early use of fingerprints in fiction to solve a crime, but also one of Twain's most philosophical works and a strong comment on a society that permits slavery. Owner name on front endpaper; slightest bit of rubbing to spine ends and bottom edge, otherwise an unusually tight, bright copy. Fine
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.