Punch, Brothers, Punch! And Other Sketches
by TWAIN, Mark
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Thomaston, Maine, United States
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About This Item
New York: Slote, Woodman & Co, 1878. Second Edition. Cloth. Very good. Second edition. 16mo; 140pp [4]; green cloth, black stamped vignette designs and title, author and a caricature of Twain on the front cover, gilt stamped title to spine, design blind stamped to back cover; glazed cream eps with no decoration; Author's name in facsimile autograph on title page; Mark Twain's Scrap Book advertising to rear paste down; scuffing to cover edges with bumped corners and loss, light soiling, age toning of paper, light foxing on a few pages; very good minus. (BAL 3378). Includes the following stories: Punch, Brothers, Punch!, Speech on the Weather at the New England Society's Seventy-First Annual Dinner, Rogers, Map of Paris (with Map), Random Notes of an Idle Excursion, Speech at a Dinner of the Knights of St. Patrick, An Encounter with an Interviewer, The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence, Etc., and The Canvasser's Tale.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 910
- Title
- Punch, Brothers, Punch! And Other Sketches
- Author
- TWAIN, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- Slote, Woodman & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1878
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Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller
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Thomaston, Maine
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- 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...
- Spine
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...