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Mark Twain: A Bibliography of the Collections of the Mark Twain Memorial and Stowe-Day Foundation
by McBride, William M (Compiler)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0930313003
- ISBN 13
- 9780930313005
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
xxi+487 pages with frontispiece, plates, photographs, facsimiles and indices. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and facsimile signature of Twain to cover in original pictorial jacket. First edition limited to 1500 copies.
William McBride's indispensable work, covering the full breadth of Mark Twain's writings after Merle Johnson's first Twain bibliography in 1910 and the entries in Jacob Blanck's Bibliography of American Literature in 1957. Shows cover and title page photographs for most entries in addition to occurring points of entry, further includes summaries of every letter owned by the Mark Twain Memorial And The Stowe-day Foundation.
Condition: A near fine copy in a fine jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS004877
- Title
- Mark Twain: A Bibliography of the Collections of the Mark Twain Memorial and Stowe-Day Foundation
- Author
- McBride, William M (Compiler)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0930313003
- ISBN 13
- 9780930313005
- Publisher
- McBride Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Hartford
- Date Published
- 1984
- Pages
- xxi+487 pages with frontispiece, plates, photographs, facsimiles and indices
- Size
- Royal octavo
- Keywords
- Bibliography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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