The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays . First Printing, Hardcover, 1900.
by TWAIN, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens)
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Lincoln, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
1900 Harper & Brothers, New York and London, 1900. Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 398 pp., 8vo. Cloth hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first state with "page 2" on illustrated page after page 2. Gilt-stamped red cloth. Clemens' portrait frontispiece. The main story being a satirical replay of the Garden of Eden story. Also containing Twain's: About Play-Acting. At the Appetite-Cure, Travelling With A Reformer, My Boyhood Dreams & more. Slight soiling & shelfwear to boards. A good 1st edition reading example from a rural northern NH library with their bookplate and pocket, spine sunned and cocked, nice place keeper.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Moose (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022888
- Title
- The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays . First Printing, Hardcover, 1900.
- Author
- TWAIN, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens)
- Format/Binding
- No Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Date Published
- 1900
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Classics;
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- Sunned
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