Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens). What is man?. Watts & Co., 1910.

Price: US$24.74 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Clean hardback tightly bound in blue cloth with gilt titles, spine tanned, cloth marked and worn, endpapers tanned, no inscriptions. 166 pages + 4 pages of publisher's adverts

Seller: Aucott & Thomas, Ibstock, United Kingdom

Twain, Mark. What is Man?. Watts, 1910.

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Condition: Poor

Description: Marked and worn. A reading copy. Soundly bound. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa

Mark Twain. What Is Man?. Watts & Co., 1910.

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Condition: Good

Description: Boards marked and worn, some foxing to the page edges. Issued for the Rationalst Press Association.

Seller: High Street Books, New Mills, United Kingdom

Twain, Mark:. What is man?. London. Watts & Co. 1910., 1910.

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Description: 165 S. Hardcover. Sauberes Exemplar ohne Stempel und Anstreichungen. Einband etwas berieben. Name auf Vorsatz. Vorsatz und Titelblätter etwas stockfleckig. Sonst gut erhalten Sprache: eng

Seller: Antiquariat & Verlag Jenior, Kassel, HE, Germany

Mark Twain. What Is Man?. Watts & Co., London, 1910.

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Condition: Good

Description: Presumed first English edition; "Issued for the Rationalist Press Association, Limited" (bracketed note on title page); dark blue cloth with (sunned) gilt spine lettering; corners bumped; thumb-sized soiled area on front cover; head and tail of spine compressed (with small nicks, but no fraying); hinges tight, gutter paper uncracked; text pages age-tanned throughout, but clean, square, and unmarked; original owner's bookplate inside front cover; previous owner's inscription on first flyleaf.

Seller: JP Books, Bradford, VT, U.S.A.

Twain, Mark [d.i. Samuel Langhorne Clemens].. What is man?.. London, Watts & Co., 1910.

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Description: London, Watts & Co. 1910. 3 Bll., 165 S. (19 x 13 cm). OLn. mit goldgeprägtem RTitel. In den USA 1906 zunächst anonym erschienen. (Wilpert, Lex. d. Weltlit., S. 1644). Diese erste britische Ausgabe"Issued for the Rationalist Press Association, Limited", offenbarte erstmals den Verfassernamen, entgegen dem Willen des Autors, der die Ausgabe einziehen ließ. - Deckel mit Druckstellen und hellen Wassersprenkseln. Besitzeretikett aV, Papier gebräunt

Seller: Antiquariat Reinhold Pabel, Hamburg, Germany

Mark Twain. What Is Man. Watts & Co, London, 1910.

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Description: First Trade Edition, First Printing after the privately published edition of 1906. 5 x 7.5in. 165pp. [4pp., ads]. Publisher's cloth boards. VERY GOOD. Shows marginal shelf rubbing of the extremities, slight bouts of furrowing of the cloth, light rubbing mark of the front board, endpapers somewhat toned, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text is clean and unmarked, and the boards remain bright and distinct. As pictured.

Seller: North Books: Used & Rare, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.

Twain, Mark.. What is Man?. Watts & Co., London., 1910.

Price: US$357.00 + shipping

Description: Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy. 165 pps. + ads. Gilt decorated hard cover. Dark blue cloth.

Seller: BookMine, Fair Oaks, CA, U.S.A.

Twain, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens]. What Is Man?. Watts & Co, London, 1910.

Price: US$475.00 + shipping

Description: First trade edition of this uncommon Twain title. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of leading Twain authority and publisher John Gerber with his bookplate to the pastedown. Gerber served as head of the English Department at the University of Iowa for many years following the end of World War II when American literature was beginning to replace the role of English literature in American schools and colleges. Gerber was instrumental in the publication of a new uniform edition of Mark Twain's works, which was finally published as the Iowa-California edition of the Works of Mark Twain beginning in 1972, after several years frustrations including challenges from the MLA and United States government. What Is Man? was first published anonymously in a private edition of 250 copies in 1906. This edition, published months before his death, reveals Twain's authorship for the first time. BAL In very good condition. "To understand America, read Mark Twain. No matter what new craziness pops up in America, I find it described beforehand by him He was never innocent, at home or abroad" (Garry Wills). "High and fine literature is wine," Twain once wrote, "and mine is only water; but everybody likes water." Raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Samuel Clemens, of Mark Twain, was lauded in his obituary as the "greatest humorist this country has produced." His 1885 novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is often referred to as "The Great American Novel." Written in the form of a Platonic dialogue, What is Man? is considered a crucial exposition of the pessimistic philosophy of Twain's later years.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.