Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010. First printing. Hardcover. 756 pp. Edited by Harriet Elinor Smith. First of a projected three volume autobiography suppressed (based on Twain's strict instructions) for 100 years after his death. Few faint areas of discoloration textblock, else Fine. More
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1893. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [6], 9-260, [3], 9 (pages of publisher's advertisements), [3] pp. Bound in tan cloth with gilt, brown, and black decorations on the front board. Illustrated by a frontispiece. BAL 3436, Ahearn APG 045a, McBride 135. A Near..... More
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], xi-xv, [1], 17-277, [1], [8] (pages of publisher's advertisemets) pp. Bound in olive-green cloth with decorations in gold and black on the front board and spine. BAL 3434. An attractive copy. Tiny tear to last three leaves..... More
[New York]: The Library of America [1992], 1992. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [8], ix-xviii, 1076, [2], [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [19]; [8], ix-xiii, [1], 1050, [3], [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [17] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering blocked in black on each spine. Price of $35.00 on the..... More
London: The Folio Society, 2013. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xvii, [3], 3-330, [4] pp. Grey pictorial boards lettered in black and red on the spine, boards decorated in black, white, and red. Book housed in a red slipcase. Introduced by Fred Kaplan. Illustrated by David Hughes. A Fine book..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers (1904), 1904. First edition thus. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [6], 2-89, [1] pp. Red cloth with lettering in white on the front board and spine, front board with a black, grey and white decoration. Illustrated by F. Strothmann, with a frontispiece and several full-page black..... More
Hartford, CN: The American Publishing Company, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [6], 7-712, [2] pp. Blue cloth with gilt titling and decorations on the spine, inset blue and pink decoration of an elephant on the front board. Illustrated by a frontispiece photograph of Mark Twain and by numerous in-text..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899. Early Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 4-233, [1], [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Red cloth with gold decorations on the spine and boards, spine and front board are lettered in black. Top edge gilt. A Near Very Good book with the front hinge..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 1-149, [5] pp. Photographic two-page frontispiece, featuring statues of William Shakespeare and Sir Francis Bacon, leaf of publisher's advertisements (printed on recto and verso) tipped in between the sixth and seventh leaf in the final gathering. Bound in..... More
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [5], 8-624, [2] pp. Half-bound in morocco over pebbled brown cloth, with marble endpapers, pastedowns, and a marbled textblock. Spine is lettered and decorated in gilt with five raised bands, the margins of the boards are in ruled..... More
Norwalk, CT: The Heritage Press, 1970. Reprint. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [6], ix-xiv, [4], 3-301, [3] pp. Green cloth covered boards with gold lettering on the spine, light yellow slipcase. Illustrated with several line drawings by Joseph Low. Selected and introduced by Edward Wagenknecht. Includes the Sandglass. Very near Fine in..... More
New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1890. Later printing. Hardcover. 4to. [5], 11-411, [1], [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [4] pp. Green cloth stamped in black on the front board and spine, volume lettered and decorated in gilt on the front board and spine. Illustrated by two frontispieces and..... More
Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. 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". Contemporary ownership inscription (dated..... More
Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], iv-xvi, 17-631, [1] (page of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Bound in brown cloth with gilt decorations and lettering on the spine and the front board. Illustrated by two frontispieces, several full-page illustrations, and numerous in-text illustrations (in all 328..... More