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THE TRAVELS OF MARK TWAIN; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Charles Neider
by Neider, Charles, editor
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1961. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Small quarto, gray cloth with gold lettering on spine and gold line drawing of Mark Twain on the cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) with colored watercolor vignettes of places Twain visited, scarlet endpapers, 448 pages. Weight: 2 lbs. 1/2 oz. Charles Neider (1915 - 2001) was a Russian-American writer, known for One-Eyed Jacks (1961) and Unterwegs zur Familie Mann (2001). He also edited several authorial collections by Washington Irving, a prolific essayist, novelist, nature writer and Mark Twain scholar, died on Wednesday at his home in Princeton, N.J. He was 86. Mr. Neider edited and annotated a dozen anthologies of Twain's short stories, humorous sketches, essays, travel books, novels and letters, as well as ''The Autobiography of Mark Twain,'' published in 1959. Compiled from material in Albert Bigelow Paine and Bernard De Voto's earlier Twain autobiographies, with nearly 40,000 additional words of Twain's unpublished anecdotes and observations. SUPERIOR CONDITION: tight, bright, clean copy. Dust jacket is bright with very slight soil on the rear panel.
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- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6113
- Title
- THE TRAVELS OF MARK TWAIN; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Charles Neider
- Author
- Neider, Charles, editor
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Coward-McCann, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1961
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About the Seller
Borg Antiquarian
Biblio member since 2015
Lake Forest, Illinois
About Borg Antiquarian
BorgAntiquarian (ABAA & ILAB) is a dealer long engaged in selling exceptional collectibles: rare and fine books, autographs and manuscripts, fine art and artifacts. We are generalists in Americana, English & American literature, plus selected authors & important figures (Dickens & Darwin; presidents & 'signers'; scientists & historical figures; Revolutionary & Civil War militaria).
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- Quarto
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Cloth
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
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