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Price: US$7.95 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1996 first edition first printing with full number line inscribed (which always means to a particular person) by the author on the ffep. Price clipped, hint of rubbing on dj, else fine.
Seller: Dave's Books, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories. Oxford University Press, New York, 1996.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dark mauve cloth binding only very slightly rubbed at corners; a bit of pale spotting to boards, else a very crisp, tight & clean signed copy. No dj. ; B&w frontis photo; foreword by Shelley Fisher Fishkin; intro by Frederick Busch; afterword by Judith Yaross Lee; half-title page signed by Busch & Lee; from the THE OXFORD MARK TWAIN SERIES.; THE OXFORD MARK TWAIN SERIES Series; 8vo; 522+29 pages; Signed by Contributor
Seller: Hyde Brothers, Booksellers, Fort Wayne, IN, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dk. mauve cloth binding only very slightly rubbed at corners; a bit of pale spotting to boards, else a very crisp, tight & clean volume. No dj. ; B&w frontis photo; foreword by Shelley Fisher Fishkin; intro by Frederik Pohl; afterword by James A. Miller; ht signed by Pohl & Miller; from the THE OXFORD MARK TWAIN SERIES.; THE OXFORD MARK TWAIN SERIES Series; 8vo; 120+27 pages; Signed by Contributor
Seller: Hyde Brothers, Booksellers, Fort Wayne, IN, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dark mauve cloth binding only very slightly rubbed at corners; a bit of pale spotting to back board, else a very crisp, tight & clean copy. No dj. ; B&w frontis photo; foreword by Shelley Fisher Fishkin; intro by Frederik Pohl; afterword by James A. Miller; half-title page signed by Pohl & Miller; from the THE OXFORD MARK TWAIN SERIES.; THE OXFORD MARK TWAIN SERIES Series; 8vo; 120+27 pages; Signed by Contributor
Seller: Hyde Brothers, Booksellers, Fort Wayne, IN, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. Speeches (Oxford Mark Twain series). Oxford University Press,, 1996.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Hbk 434pp square 8vo with 27pp of additional material SIGNED by both Holbrook and Barrow on second fep an excellent clean tight unmarked copy in sleeve protected dj as new.
Seller: Sutton Books, Norwich, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Oxford Press first edition, also facsimile of long ago first edition. Signed on title page by both Nat Hentoff and M.Thomas Inge, who wrote the intro and the afterword respectively. Mulberry boards with black titles and decoration. Boards are crisp and new-looking, corners sharp, binding strong and uncracked, and pages clean and unmarked. Only flaw is slight warping of front board, otherwise Fine. Photographic illustration on unclipped dj, no tears, chips or creases. You will notice that my book descriptions are not generic, saying "may have." certain conditions. All descriptions are written with actual book in hand.
Seller: Quiet Companion, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The twenty-nine-volume Oxford Mark Twain is a major literary event. In addition to gathering together a superb collection of Twain's works, editor Shelley Fisher Fishkin has commissioned some of our most eminent living writers to introduce each volume with their personal insights and experiences of Twain. Readers will find, for instance, Toni Morrison reflecting on Huckleberry Finn, Kurt Vonnegut on Connecticut Yankee, Arthur Miller on Twain's Autobiography, Roy Blount Jr. On The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, E. L. Doctorow on Tom Sawyer, Willie Morris on Life on the Mississippi, Garry Wills on Christian Science, and Cynthia Ozick on The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays. Other writers include Gore Vidal, Ursula K. Le Guin, George Plimpton, Ward Just, Russell Banks, Bobbie Ann Mason, Malcolm Bradbury, Nat Hentoff, Sherley Anne Williams, Justin Kaplan, Walter Mosley, Erica Jong, Judith Martin ("Miss Manners") , David Bradley, Frederick Pohl, Mordecai Richler, Lee Smith, Anne Bernays, Charles Johnson, Fred Busch, and actor Hal Holbrook (who introduces Twain's collected speeches). And each volume includes an afterword by a noted scholar--such as Louis J. Budd, Victor A. Doyno, Leslie A. Fiedler, James A. Miller, Linda Wagner-Martin, Forrest Robinson, M. Thomas Inge, Fred Kaplan, Susan Harris, and David L. Smith--who place the work in the context of Twain's career and the literary and social climate of the time. In effect, the set gathers together an American literary who's who, all of whom reflect on what Mark Twain's work means to them as writers and scholars, and what he means to our literary history and to our culture as a whole. This set is over-sized and additional postage is needed for shipment with No Priority shipping available. ; 8vo; Signed by Editors
Seller: Carlson Turner Books, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$2200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Octavo, [twenty-nine volumes]. These books are facsimile reproductions of the publisher's first printings. All in maroon cloth, title stamped in black on front cover and spine, matching maroon endpapers. Full number line listed on copyright page. Solid text blocks, appear unread. in the publisher's dust jackets, a near fine set with faint shelf wear. Touch of sunning to spine of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This set is number 57 of 300, all labeled on limitation page at front of volumes. Signed by notable contributors including E.L. Doctorow, Arthur Miller, Gore Vidal, Bobbie Ann Mason, Fred Kaplan, Frederick Pohl, Ursa K. Le Guin, Roy Blunt Jr., Richard Bucci, Kurt Vonnegut, Louis J. Budd, Albert E. Stone, David Bradley, Gregg Canfield, Ward Just, Willie Morris, Lawrence Howe, Mordecai Richler, David E.E. Sloane, Forest G. Robinson, Cynthia Ozick, George Plimpton, Henry B. Wonham, Erica Jong, Walter Mosley, actor Hal Holbrook, Fredrick Busch, David Borrow, Net Hentoff and more. Titles in this collection include: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The American Claimant, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, A Tramp Abroad, Chapters from My Autobiography, Christian Science, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The Diaries of Adam and Eve, Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven, Following the Equator, The Gilded Age, How to Tell a Story, The Innocents Abroad, Life on the Mississippi, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, Merry Tales, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, The Prince and the Pauper, Roughing It, Sketches New and Old, Speeches, The Stolen White Elephant, Tom Sawyer Abroad, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins, What is Man?, 1601, and Is Shakespeare Dead?, The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories, and The £1,000,000 Bank-Note and Other New Stories.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.