Tom Sawyer Detective : As Told By Huck Finn & Other Tales
by Twain, Mark ( S L Clemens)
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- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good /No Jacket
- Seller
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LEICESTER, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus. New edition with a portrait of the author as a frontis with tissue guard. Published same year as 1st edition. Publishers 32 pages catalogue bound in at rear, dated Nov 1896. Minor foxing to prelims. Tape removal marks to inner hinges. Publishers dark blue-green cloth, titled gilt. Spine a little dulled now. Contents generally nice & clean . Good. Hardcover. reprint. 1897.
Synopsis
Tom Sawyer, Detective follows Twain's popular novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Tom Sawyer Abroad. In this novel, Tom turns detective, trying to solve a murder. Twain plays with and celebrates the detective novel, wildly popular at the time. This novel, like the others, is told through the first-person narrative of Huck Finn.
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- Bookseller
- Black Cat Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005942
- Title
- Tom Sawyer Detective : As Told By Huck Finn & Other Tales
- Author
- Twain, Mark ( S L Clemens)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- reprint
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1897
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- Gilt
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