Chatto and Windus, London, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover (Embossed Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Dan Beard and Hal Hurst. The Weather in This Book and list of illustrations. The text is illustrated with black-and-white drawings by Dan Beard and Hal Hurst, including a tissue guarded frontispiece Â– the tissue guard has become a little creased.. Red coloured boards with black coloured embossed decorations and titles to the front panel and gilt coloured titles and black coloured illustration to the back strip. This book is about mistaken identities, multiple role switches and no mention of weather! The author dictated this book using a pornographic dictation device, the first author to do so. The book is starting to show signs of age and use. Bumping, rubbing and fraying of the book corners with the underlying board is visible to the lower book corners. Softening, rubbing and fraying of the back strip and there is a 2 1/2 inch split to the rear spine gutter edge. Fading of the back strip along with some marks visible. Staining to the panels along with rubbing. Light age toning of the text block edges and even lighter tanning of the pages. Offset tanning and some foxing to the end pages with previous owners name, with a date of 13/1/93 (1893) to the free front end page. First English Edition. Size: 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. [9], X - XI, [2], 3 - 258, [34 Â– of which 32 a further titles from publishing house] pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Dan Beard and Hal Hurst. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; 19th century; Humour. Inventory No: 0288940. .

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Bookseller: Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 0288940
Title: The American Claimant
Author: Twain, Mark ( Clemens, Samuel ) 1835 Â 1910
Illustrator: Dan Beard and Hal Hurst
Format/Binding: Hardcover (Embossed Cloth)
Book Condition: Used - Good Condition
Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Chatto and Windus
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1892
Keywords: BZDB2 Fiction, humorous, 19th century Literature & Literary; 19th century; Humour. Dan Beard and Hal Hurst Unbranded Twain, Mark ( Clemens, Samuel ) 1835 Â– 1910 The American Claimant
Bookseller catalogs: Humour;

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General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online

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