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New York: American Book Exchange, 1880. Early Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Decorated cloth. Illustrated with silhouettes and engravings.
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A COMIC HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
by HOPKINS, Livingston
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THE CRUISE OF THE KAWA: WANDERINGS IN THE SOUTH SEAS
by TRAPROCK, Walter
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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1921). First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. A humorous and fictitious travel account, a parody of the usual Polynesian idyll. Illustrated with photographs.
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THE DICK GIBSON SHOW
by ELKIN, Stanley
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New York: Random House, (1971). First Edition. The book and dustwrapper have suffered from water damage at the bottom, only faintly visible but with the pages wavy at the bottom corner. There is some bleeding from the color of the covers to the dustwrapper as well. Good at best in like dustwrapper but with a great association from a Jewish son to his mother. The subject of this comic novelist's fourth book is the apprenticeship of an itinerant radio personality. This copy is INSCRIBED by the author to his mother: "For Mother,/Who had the good/character to change/my life--/Love,/ Stanley."
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THE FIGHT AT DAME EUROPA'S SCHOOL
by NAST, Thomas
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New York: Francis B. Felt & Co., (1871). First Edition. Hardcover. Neat owner signature dated April, 1871, on the front endpaper. Some fading and spotting to cloth. Quite Good. Thomas Nast. Original terra cotta cloth with gilt lettering. With 33 illustrations by Thomas Nast.
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THE FIGHT AT DAME EUROPA'S SCHOOL
by NAST, Thomas
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New York: Francis B. Felt & Co., (1871). First Edition. Hardcover. Spine tips worn, front endpaper detached. Good. Thomas Nast. Original terra cotta cloth with gilt lettering. With 33 illustrations by Thomas Nast.
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KNITTING-WORK: A WEB OF MANY TEXTURES, WROUGHT BY RUTH PARTINGTON
by PARTINGTON, Ruth (SHILLABER, Benjamin P.)
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Boston: Brown, Taggard & Chase, 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor wear, small loss of cloth on rear cover. Very Good copy. Original brown cloth. BAL 17556: Binding A. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 7 plates. Owner inscription dated September 25, two days after the Library of Congress copy was deposited. Mrs. Partington was Mark Twain's model for Aunt Polly in TOM SAWYER.
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KNITTING-WORK: A WEB OF MANY TEXTURES, WROUGHT BY RUTH PARTINGTON
by PARTINGTON, Ruth (SHILLABER, Benjamin P.)
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Boston: Brown, Taggard & Chase, 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor wear to spine tips, rear cover with bruise in a horizontal strip. Still Near Fine. Original blue cloth. BAL 17556: Binding A. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 7 plates. Mrs. Partington was Mark Twain's model for Aunt Polly in TOM SAWYER. Bookplate of Lt. Col. Walter Merriam Pratt on the front pastedown.
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LIFE AND SAYINGS OF MRS. PARTINGTON AND OTHERS OF THE FAMILY
by SHILLABER, Benjamin P
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New York/Boston: J. C. Derby/Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Head of spine chipped, some marginal dampstaining. Good+. Original brown cloth. BAL 17540: State 1, Imprint A. Wright II #2208. Illustrated with 8 plates & text engravings. A collection of comic pieces including a brief chapter on Daguerrotypes. In 1851, Shillaber became the founding editor of the The Carpet-Bag, one of the country's first comic publications. An 1852 issue ran a short article titled "The Dandy Frightening the Squatter" by a 16-year old Samuel L. Clemens.
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THE LITERARY GUILLOTINE
by [TWAIN, Mark (CLEMENS, Samuel)] [WHEELOCK, W. W.]
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New York/London: John Lane, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good copy, lacking the scarce dustwrapper. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. Truly funny anthology of mock literary trials--Henry James vs. Mary Baker Eddy: "Infringement of Patent," for example--often with Mark Twain presiding as judge. Other "characters" include Bliss Carman, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Oliver Herford, Booth Tarkington, Richard Harding Davis, etc. Authorship has been disputed. Not in BAL. Minor edgewear; some chipping to spine label. 1904 owner signature on dedication page.
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MARK TWAIN'S SKETCHES, NEW AND OLD
by TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]
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Hartford & Chicago: American Publishing, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Occasional internal soiling; some staining to rear cover but mostly faint. Gilt bright, covers and hinges strong. Minor wear to spine tips. Very Good to Near Fine. Original decorated blue cloth. Second State of the text. An early collection of 63 sketches by Twain, illustrated throughout. BAL 3364.
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MARK TWAIN'S (BURLESQUE) AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND FIRST ROMANCE
by TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]
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New York: Sheldon & Company, (1871). First Edition. Hardcover. Owner name in light purple ink on the blank space of page 30. Very light wear to spine tips and corners, a few small purple ink stains on rear cover, front pastedown, and front free endpaper with some foxing to the text. Very Good. Original green cloth. BAL 3326: First State without ad. Twain's fictional history of his ancestry with anonymous illustrations satirizing Jay Gould and the Erie Railroad scandal.
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THE MEZZANINE
by BAKER, Nicholson
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New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. Very thin, light remainder stripe on bottom edge. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Author's first book.
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THE MEZZANINE
by BAKER, Nicholson
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New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Author's first book.
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THE NIAGARA BOOK
by TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] et al
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Buffalo: Underhill & Nichols, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. The endpapers and preliminaries, including the front blank with Twain's signature, have been strengthened with Japanese tissue paper in the gutters. The Porter letter detached at one fold but all present. Spine a little darkened, still a bright copy. Near Fine. Publisher's decorated green cloth stamped in brown and silver. SIGNED by the book's most famous contributor "Truly yours, Mark Twain" on the first blank. BAL 3437: Fourth Printing. Contains the first appearance of Twain's "Extracts from Adam's Diary, Translated from the Original MS," on pages [93]-109. This copy also has an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED from each of three of the other contributors--David Day, Edward Martin, and Peter Porter--laid in. Also laid in is an old catalogue description from Charles Sessler, Bookseller.
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ON A MEXICAN MUSTANG, THROUGH TEXAS, FROM THE GULF TO THE RIO GRANDE
by SWEET, Alex E. & KNOX, J.Armoy
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Hartford: S. S. Scranton & Company, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Hinges neatly reinforced; early owner ink stamp on front blank. Light soiling to covers. Very Good and increasingly uncommon in this condition. Decorated mustard cloth with fancy gilt designs on the front cover and spine; 672 pages. Illustrated with many plates and facsimiles. Sixguns 2174; Adams HERD 2217: "Scarce"; Jenkins BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 201: "the best volume of 19th century Texas humor." Later state of the Contents section and with all of the imprints noted by Jenkins on the title page except Cleveland & New York.
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ORIGINAL CARTOON ART: Oh--and Look Out for the Shark!
by WILSON, Gahan
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n.p., n.d. Drawing. About Fine. Gahan Wilson. Original pen, ink, watercolor, and gum arabic on paper, 9" x 12", SIGNED by the artist at the lower left and titled in pencil in the bottom margin. The cartoon depicts a man diving into a pool with the caption spoken by another man in a robe sitting at poolside. The otherwise blank verso has a sticker stating "NEW YORKER Drawing A7892."
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ORIGINAL SIGNED DRAWING
by THURBER, James
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Framed Drawing. Tear in paper on left side, some creasing. A striking, large drawing in Very Good condition, not examined out of the frame. James Thurber. Large Original Pencil Drawing (36" x 24") of two couples dancing SIGNED by the artist, simply framed. This drawing was used on the cover of HARPER'S MAGAZINE Centennial Issue, October 1950, No.1205. Not in Bowden's bibliography of Thurber. A scarce and very large iconic drawing by Thurber at his best. With a copy of the magazine where it appears on the cover.
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PRUE AND I
by CURTIS, George William
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New York: Dix, Edwards & Co., 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Small leather bookplate, old bookseller's ticket. Slight bubbling to cloth, minor rubbing. Near Fine in chemise and a Very Good slipcase. Original blue cloth. BAL 4270: Binding A. Johnson High Spot. Dedicated to Mrs. Henry W. Longfellow. Curtis, editor of HARPER'S WEEKLY during the Civil War years and one of the most influential American journalists of any day, also was known for his speeches, one of which was a tribute to Charles Sumner. Curtis also had the honor of helping Thoreau build his cabin on Walden Pond. Housed in a later cloth dustwrapper and cloth slipcase.
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PUNCH, BROTHERS, PUNCH! AND OTHER SKETCHES
by TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]
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New York: Slote, Woodman & Company, (1878). First Edition. wraps. Minor wear to wraps, crease to lower front corner. Very Good. Publisher's printed pictorial orange wraps. BAL 3378: "Second Edition," though second printing might be more accurate.
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PUNCH, BROTHERS, PUNCH! AND OTHER SKETCHES
by TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]
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New York: Slote, Woodman & Co., (1878). First Edition. Original pictorial wraps. Slight wear. Near Fine and scarce thus. Publisher's printed orange wraps. BAL 3378: First Printing with all points. Housed in a cloth chemise and matching slipcase with leather label. Leather bookplate on verso of the front wrap.
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