Search Results: the prince and the pauper a by samuel l clemens

Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1909. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Chicago: Goldsmith Publishing Company. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. N.D.. No edition stated. Hardcover. Book square and tight. Small owner name at 1st page else no markings. Orange decorated boards with black lettering. DJ cover detached from rest of DJ and missing the flap. Spine delicate. ; 252 pages .

New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1921. First Thus. . Leatherette. Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Thus, the "Authorized" Edition. Hard cover 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall bound uniformly in green Faux Leather (leatherette), w/ gilt spine titles, dec and rules. Fine/No Jacket. 281pp., illustrated in b/w reproductions and frontis reproduction from text.

The Goldsmith Publishing Co., 1931. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket in acceptable condition. Later printing. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. LIQUID DAMAGE TO BOARDS AND DUST JACKET CENTERED AROUND SPINE. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, 5.5 x 8, xii + 282 pages. Tightly bound in attractive red cloth with gold stamping (faded to dark brown on the back strip); interior is clean with foxing only on the title page (opposite the book's one tipped-in illustration).

Harper & Brothers, 1909. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. From the Harper's Illustrated series. With frontispiece and 2 black and white illustrations. Deep pink covers looking remarkably fresh, with bright gilting to spine. Free of marks of any kind. Wear at lower spine edge & gentle bumps to upper corners, but else a very presentable, well-preserved copy. .

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Very Good+. 1917. Early printing. Hardcover. Color Illustrations; This is an Early printing thus - with the code K-R (October, 1917). This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light bowing to the covers of the book. This book has a pictorial pastedown surrounded by gilt rules. There is some dulling / fading to the gilt rules on the front cover, and most lettering on the spine is faded away. The cover edges have some fading and water spotting that has been repaired by a former owner. The text pages are clean and bright. This book includes seven full page, full color plates by Franklin Booth. "Franklin Booth, (July 8, 1874 – August 28, 1948) was an influential American artist known for his highly detailed pen-and-ink illustrations. ..Booth was primarily a commercial artist, and his illustrations appeared in The Century Magazine,… Read More

London:: J. M. Dent and Sons,. Very Good. 1923. Hardcover. B000S95MQA . Eight color plates. First edition thus. A bit faded along the spine, two wear sports along the fore edge of the front board, foxing to edges and endpapers, previous owner's name on front paste-down, else very good in red cloth with gilt lettering and design. No dust jacket. .

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940. Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. [6], ix-xvii, [5], 1-296, [2] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and with seven color plates, all done by W. Hatherell, R.A. A bookplate from the Becky Thatcher Bookshop, once located in Hannibal, MO, Twain's hometown (bookplate with a 1947 gift inscription on it). A minor tobacco odor to the leaves.

315pp, volume XV in the works, half pebbled leather with a really nice art nouveau gilt decoration along spine, unmarked, edgeworn, marbled boards, top edge gilt some wear, untrimmed page edge, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded photogravure frontis, two in text illustrations.

James R. Osgood And Company, Bos, 1882-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1.4000 8.2000 6.7000. First U.S. edition, later state. Green cloth cover with decoration in black and gilt shows minor wear, teawr, rubbing, and edgewear. Name of former owner on the front pastedown, missing the front free endpaper. Pages are tanned with minor foxing/smudges.

James R. Osgood And Company, Bos, 1882-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1.4000 8.2000 6.7000.

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1881.

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1882. 1st. Hardcover. Very good condition. With one hundred and ninety-two illustrations. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in gilt and blind. Front inner hinge is weak. The covers have chips to the extremities. Gift inscription in ink on the front free endpaper.

[CLEMENS, Samuel L.]. The Prince and the Pauper. A Tale for Young People of All Ages. Orig. pictorial cloth. Illustrated. London: Chatto & Windus, 1881. First edition, published two weeks before the American edition. BAL 3396. A very good copy.

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1882. 1st. Hardcover. Very good condition. With one hundred and ninety-two illustrations. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in gilt and blind. The covers have chips to the extremities. 2nd state.

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1882. First edition, First issue with the Franklin imprint on the copyright page. Illustrated by F. T. Merrill. 411pp. 1 vols. 4to. Bound in publisher's half morocco over marbled covered boards with matching marbled endpapers and marbled edges. Very Good. First edition, First issue with the Franklin imprint on the copyright page. Illustrated by F. T. Merrill. 411pp. 1 vols. 4to. DELUXE BINDING. McBride page 70

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1882. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. [10], 11-411, [1] pp. Green publisher's cloth with black and gilt decorations on the front board and spine; all edges gilt. A few full-page illustrations at the beginning of the volume, facing the title page, with several full-page and in-text illustrations throughout the rest of the book. Ahearn APG 032g. Kevin Macdonnell, "The Primary First Editions of Mark Twain", Firsts Magazine, July 1998, 44-45. The first state of the first printing with all the textual errors. A subscription book that reached three printings before publication, this classic tale plays with the rags to riches trope. A young Prince Edward VI experiences the lives of English common-folk first-hand when he is ejected from his home in a case of mistaken identity. The happy ending makes this Twain novel a favorite among readers. A few hints of wear to the extremities and one very discreet touch-up each to the crown and heel of the spine.

New York: Gabriel Wells, 1922-27. The Definitive edition, one of 1024 numbered sets, with volume one signed by Mark Twain and Albert Bigelow Paine. The publisher states that Twain intended a definitive edition and signed 1024 single leaves in 1906 in anticipation of this edition. Octavo, 37 volumes, bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine over marbled boards, each volume illustrated with frontispiece and plates. In very good condition.