The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Clemens, Samuel L
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Vernon, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Pictorial boards. No. 268. 'A Complete Edition of the Famous Story'. Yellowed pages. Inscribed to previous owner on end paper. Endpapers damp-stained. Front hinge is visible. Text block unmarked, binding still tight.
Synopsis
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (born Samuel Langhorne Clemens) is a popular novel about a young boy growing up in the antebellum South on the Mississippi River in the town of St. Petersberg, which is based on Hannibal, Missouri, a town of Twain's youth. Tom Sawyer satirizes adult conventions to paint an idyllic picture of boyhood life. Sequels and other works by Twain featuring Tom Sawyer include Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894), and Tom Sawyer Detective (1896).
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- Bookseller
- VFOL UsedBooks (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2209014
- Title
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Author
- Clemens, Samuel L
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Saalfield Publishing
- Date Published
- 1931
- Pages
- 252
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Box6
- Bookseller catalogs
- juvenile; classic fiction;
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...