The £1,000,000 [Million Pound] Bank-Note and Other New Stories
by Mark Twain
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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Centreville, Virginia, United States
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Hardcover. Condition: VG. First Edition. First State.. BAL 3436. Frontispiece by Dan Beard. 260 pp. with 9 pages of ads. Original tan publisher's cloth with pictorial decoration on the front board in gilt, brown, and black, and gilt title on spine. A group of short stories from Twain. Tightly bound, solid, and square. Soiling to cloth. Ex Libris book plate on inside board. Ownership inscription on FFEP. Interior pages clean. Little to no wear to edges. Slight wear to tips. Spine slightly darkened and rubbed at foot and crown.
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- 3190
- Title
- The £1,000,000 [Million Pound] Bank-Note and Other New Stories
- Author
- Mark Twain
- Illustrator
- Dan Beard
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Webster & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1893
- Pages
- 260
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mark Twain;
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