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The £1,000,000 Bank-Note and Other New Stories
by Twain, Mark (Clemens, Samuel Langhorne)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Webster, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1893. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Beard, Dan. First edition, first state (BAL 3436). Spine and edges very slightly toned, owner bookplates of C.O.G. Miller and Richard Kendall Miller on front endpaper, top edge faintly foxed, loss of gilt from spine and front board. Binding tight, text clean, bright, and unmarked. 1893 Hard Cover. 260, 9 pp. 8vo. Beige cloth, gilt, black, and brown titles and decorations. Frontispiece by Dan Beard. A collection of short stories by the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Roughing It, etc. The titular story takes place in Victorian London, where two very rich, eccentric brothers give the penniless story protagonist, Henry Adams, one million pounds of money in the form of a single peerless bank note. Henry would not be easily able to exchange that note in the bank without being questioned about how he had come to it, charged with theft and arrested. He would also not be able to spend it since no ordinary person would be able to change it. Includes: The £1,000,000 Bank-Note; Mental Telegraphy; A Cure for the Blues; The Enemy Conquered; or, Love Triumphant; About All Kinds of Ships; Playing Courier; The German Chicago; A Petition to the Queen of England; A Majestic Literary Fossil.
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- Bookseller
- Yesterday's Muse Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2340706
- Title
- The £1,000,000 Bank-Note and Other New Stories
- Author
- Twain, Mark (Clemens, Samuel Langhorne)
- Illustrator
- Beard, Dan
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles L. Webster & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1893
- Size
- 0x0x0
- Weight
- 1.25 lbs
- Keywords
- LITERATURE AMERICAN FICTION SHORT STORIES MARK TWAIN SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS
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About the Seller
Yesterday's Muse Books
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Webster, New York
About Yesterday's Muse Books
Yesterday's Muse Inc. is an independent used & rare bookseller that has been in operation for over 15 years. We opened our first 'brick and mortar' storefront in December of 2008 in our hometown of Webster, NY.Owner Jonathan Smalter is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA), former vice president of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA), both of which are trade organizations created to promote ethical online selling practices, and to encourage continuing education among fellow booksellers. He is also a 2011 graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS). He has nearly 20 years of experience in the book trade, during which time he has become adept at evaluating used and collectible books.
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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