MERRY TALES
by TWAIN, Mark
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles L. Webster, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Duodecimo, 209 pages+ ads, gray-green cloth, covers rubbed, touch of staiin in gutter at title-page
Binding state A with parsley-patterned endpapers [BAL 3435]. The first volume Issued in the Fiction, Fact, and Fancy Series, by Mark Twain's son-in-law. This series was issued to compete against the "rubbish" distributed by many other publishers. The first story is how the Civil War came to Missouri, while Twain was still a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River.
Binding state A with parsley-patterned endpapers [BAL 3435]. The first volume Issued in the Fiction, Fact, and Fancy Series, by Mark Twain's son-in-law. This series was issued to compete against the "rubbish" distributed by many other publishers. The first story is how the Civil War came to Missouri, while Twain was still a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2021076
- Title
- MERRY TALES
- Author
- TWAIN, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Charles L. Webster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1892
- Keywords
- mark twain civil war
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About the Seller
Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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Chicago, Illinois
About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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