THE AMERICAN CLAIMANT
by Twain, Mark
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- V.g.
- Seller
-
Yaxley, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus, 1892. xi, [i blank], 258,[ii],32 pub. ads May 1892. with 81 illustrations by Dan Beard and Hal Hurst. Half-title page present and frontispiece, Original red cloth with black line illustrated cover and spine with gilt titles to the upper spine. Trifle sunned and rubbed to extremilties as often. Trifle crocked with fore-edge foxed. Pub. just after the US 1st edition.. 1st UK edition. hardcover. V.g.. 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Thomas Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- MJ128
- Title
- THE AMERICAN CLAIMANT
- Author
- Twain, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - V.g.
- Edition
- 1st UK edition
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1892
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First;
Terms of Sale
Thomas Rare Books
7 day return if mis-described
About the Seller
Thomas Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Yaxley, Suffolk
About Thomas Rare Books
Out-of-print books and maps
Glossary
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- PUB
- Common abbreviation for 'published'
- 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....