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Price: US$5.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: c. 1906, Volume 24 of the Writings of Mark Twain, Author's National Edition set, HB, Fair, Edgewear, hinge cracked, stained covers, page edges and endpapers, cover bent, B&W illustrations, 380 p.
Seller: Louisville Book Net, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$7.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 311 pp. The spine covering is faded; there is a pin-hole in the gutter of the front hinge. Gilt upper page edges. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean. "Author's National Edition."
Seller: Persephone's Books, Gastonia, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Hillcrest Edition. Set, One of. 5 1/4 X 8. Light green binding with leather title box on spine, gold colored print. Leather title box, ( and spine) is torn in half and has section missing from bottom(of leather). Some tattering at spine base. Several spots on rear cover. Some color loss at corner tips. Head edge gold tinted. 319 pages. There are a number of uncut pages. Tight and unmarked.
Seller: Falls Bookstore, Readsboro, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$13.22 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1906. Authorized uniform editon. 310 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Volume XXIV. Facsimile signature to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are a mildly crushed, with small splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 972pp. Black leather spine and corners, raised bands, gold stamp on spine, black pebble cloth boards. Edge wear, scuffs, leather rubbed down at cornes, text is clean. Numerous Illustrations and, writings by Mark Twain (A Horse's Tale), Joseph Conrad (An Anarchist), WIlliam Dean Howells, Henry James, and many others. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall
Seller: Voyageur Book Shop, Milwaukee, WI, U.S.A.
Mark Twain. THE WRITINGS OF MARK TWAIN, Volumes I-XXIII. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1906.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: 23 vols. LIMITED EDITION; ONE OF 2,500 SETS. A set of 23 hardcover books bound in green cloth with the top foredges gilt. Only the barest rubbing to the edges, mild chafing to the spine labels, and the spines are almost imperceptibly faded. Vertical fold line (not fully creased) down the center of volume XIV. Small tear in the bottom corner of page 271-272 in volume XXIII. Text unmarked, pages bright and clean, and binding secure across the set. Very good condition overall! This set contains 23 volumes, issued in 1906. Volumes 24 and 25 were issued later in 1906, and into 1907. Included here are THE INNOCENTS ABROAD (in 2 vols), A TRAMP ABROAD (in 2 vols), FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR (in 2 vols), ROUGHING IT (in 2 vols), LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI, THE GILDED AGE (in 2 vols), THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER, THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, PUDD'NHEAD WILSON, THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER, A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT, PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF JOAN OF ARC (in 2 vols), SKETCHES NEW AND OLD, TOM SAWYER ABROAD/TOM SAWYER DETECTIVE and Other Stories, THE AMERICAN CLAIMANT and Other Stories and Sketches, LITERARY ESSAYS, and THE MAN THAT CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG nand Other Essays and Stories. Some volumes are illustrated with black and white plates. BAL volume 2, #3670.
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$3528.98 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A striking set of the works of the great American author Mark Twain, a smartly bound set including all of his best known and influential works. The collected works of Mark Twain.Complete in twenty-five volumes.This Hillcrest edition is named after one of the homes of Twain, in Tarrytown, New York, purchased by his wife in 1902. The couple never lived at Hillcrest however, as they planned to renovate it, but his wife fell into ill health.Including all of the important works of Twain, this set shows his great influence over American literature.'The Innocents Abroad', Volumes I and II. Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece and two plates. Collated, complete.'A Tramp Abroad', Volumes I and II. Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece and two plates. Collated, complete.'Following the Equator', Volumes I and II. Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece and two plates. Collated, complete.'Roughing It', Volumes I and II. Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece and two plates. Collated, complete.'Life on the Mississippi'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and two plates. Collated, complete.'The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today', Volumes I and II. Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece and two plates. Collated, complete.'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and two plates. Collated, complete.'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and two plates. Collated, complete.'Pudd'nhead Wilson'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and two plates. Collated, complete.'The Prince and the Pauper'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and two plates. Collated, complete.'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and two plates. Collated, complete.'Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc', Volumes I and II. Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece, and two plates. Collated, complete.'Sketches New and Old'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and two plates.'Tom Sawyer Abroad, and, Tom Sawyer Detective'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and four plates. Collated, complete.'American Claimant'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and two plates. Collated, complete.'How to Tell a Story'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and two plates. Collated, complete.'Corrupted Hadleyburg'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and two plates. Collated, complete.'The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, one plate, and in-text illustrations. Collated, complete.'Christian Science'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and two plates. Collated, complete. In a half calf binding with marbled paper to the boards. Externally, smart. Very light bumping to the extremities. Only a few very light marks to the boards. Dampstain to the spine of Volume II, lighter dampstain to the leather to the boards, with a light tide mark to the endpapers and first and last few pages. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom