Search Results: the american claimant by twain mark clemens

Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 337 pp. Very light rubbing to the extremities of the covers. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean.

NY : Harper & Bros. 1899. vg-. Hardcover. Vol. 21, Author's National Edition. 538pp; glossy b/w photo frontis + 2 b/w plates; text unmarked, light foxing to title pg & frontis; top edge gilt, others uncut; 7.5" tall; wear to edges of dark green cover; letting on spine faded; no dj .

Harper & Brothers, 1899-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1899. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 538 pp. The spine covering is very lightly faded. Gilt upper page edges. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean. "Author's National Edition.

New York: P. F. Collier Books, 1899. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, tanned pages. Writing on front pastedown. Cloth over boards is clean with minor shelf wear, bright gilt lettering on spine. ; Many short stories and other short writings. 7.5" (19 cm) tall; 397 pages.

New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1899. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Boards lightly soiled, pages ridges and endpapers foxed. 1899 Hard Cover. 397, [5] pp. 8vo. Navy blue cloth, gilt titles. "A novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. Twain wrote the novel with the help of phonographic dictation, the first author (according to Twain himself) to do so. The American Claimant is a comedy of mistaken identities and multiple role switches. Its cast of characters include an American enamored of British hereditary aristocracy and a British earl entranced by American democracy.

Harper & Brothers, 1899. C-T on copyright page.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Minor edge random small spots. Remarkable condition. No marks inside.. 1 397 p. Grayscale paintings, frontispiece, 1 more. Dark blue cloth covered boards w/stylized MT on spine, gold titles. 5x7.5in. Title piece plus "Merry Tales": The Private History of a Campaign that Failed, Luck, A Curious Experience, Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning, Meisterschaft in Three Acts, Playing Courier. Near front, 'There is no weather in this book. This is an attempt to pull a book through without weather. It being the first attempt of the kind in fictitious literature, it may prove a failure, but it seemed worth the while of some dare-devil person to try it, and the author was in just the mood. ' Beginning on page 250, Twain provides some weather from other authors for those who require such while reading 'The American Claimant'.

NY: Harper & Brothers, 1917. olive green c. w/gilt spine titles; 397 clean, unmarked pages. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by b/w Illus. 12 vo.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Beard, Dan. 1897 printing. Spine faded, a couple small smudges on exterior, hinges just beginning to weaken, ink name on front endpapers. 545 pp. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt titles. Black-and-white frontispiece and illustrations in text by Dan Beard. The complete text of Twain's novel The American Claimant, together with five short stories from Merry Tales, three from the 1,000,000 Bank-Note and Other Stories, and nine others. "Twain wrote the novel with the help of phonographic dictation, the first author (according to Twain himself) to do so. The American Claimant is a comedy of mistaken identities and multiple role switches. Its cast of characters include an American enamored of British hereditary aristocracy and a British earl entranced by American democracy.

Harper & Brothers, 1899. 538 pages. Dark green cloth with gilt ltrs on spine. 3 illustrations. Deckle side and bottom edges. Gold printers ink on top edges. Corners & head-heel of spine are bumped. Spine has five rubbed gilt bordered boxes. Spine broken at fep.. Authorized Uniform Edition. Hard Cover. G++/No Jacket.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930. Publication date ca. 1930s although copyright is earlier. Part of The Complete Works of Mark Twain, American Artists Edition. Light yellow textured cloth lettered and decorated in red and gilt, pictorial endpapers, color frontis and title page, about 7 inches tall. Some very ilght use-related soil to the light colored background, spine subtly darkened but readily legible, binding sound, pages clean, no names or other markings.. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

P F Collier and Son, 1903, 1903. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Chatto and Windus, London, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover (Embossed Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Dan Beard and Hal Hurst. The Weather in This Book and list of illustrations. The text is illustrated with black-and-white drawings by Dan Beard and Hal Hurst, including a tissue guarded frontispiece – the tissue guard has become a little creased.. Red coloured boards with black coloured embossed decorations and titles to the front panel and gilt coloured titles and black coloured illustration to the back strip. This book is about mistaken identities, multiple role switches and no mention of weather! The author dictated this book using a pornographic dictation device, the first author to do so. The book is starting to show signs of age and use. Bumping, rubbing and fraying of the book corners with the underlying board is visible to the lower book corners. Softening, rubbing and fraying of the back strip and there is a 2 1/2 inch split to the rear spine gutter… Read More

P. F. Collier & Son, 1899. 397 yellowing pages. Dark blue cloth with gilt ltrs on spine. illustrated, hinge broken at ffep and bfep, corners & head-heel of spine are bumped. Harper & Brothers edition.. Reprint Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, ca. 1892. Hardcover. Good. Collection of British Authors. Tauchnitz Edition. Vol. 2863; The title page date is 1892; Foxing

Leipzig, Germany: Bernard Tauchnitz, 1892. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Tauchnitz Edition. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. 271 pp. a satire of sorts. 3/4 bound brown leather, raised spine bands and gilt letters, red buckram 4.75" x 6.4" boards. Binding tight and square, ffep & rep have 1/8" brown stain intermittently along the top & foreedges. Front Board top foreedge worn so board shows - about 1/3" long, lower fore-edge boards worn tips, Paper/pages unmarked, clean, and well-preserved. .

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1892.. Copyright edition. Small 8vo. 271, (1) pp. Contemporary green half calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red label. Slight fading to the fading to the spine, some gentle rubbing, very good overall. Published the same year as the first edition.

Hardcover. Vrey good. Illus. by DAN BEARD, 8pp adverts at end. xvi+277pp. orig. pictorial green cloth gilt, slight wear on extremities, From the library of Stanley Reynolds [1934-2016], the author and critic, who wrote �Better Dead than Red� (1964). No Jacket

[1]-[xvi]+17-277+[1]+[8 ads] pages with frontispiece, 23 black and white illustrations. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4) bound in original publisher's olive green cloth with gilt lettering and black pictorial to spine and cover. Illustrated by Dan Beard. (BAL 3434; McBride page 134) First American edition. The Colonel Mulberry Sellers here re-introduced to the public is the same person who appeared as Eschol Sellers in the first edition of the tale entitled The Gilded Age, years ago, and as Beriah Sellers in the subsequent editions of the same book, and finally as Mulberry Sellers in the drama played afterward by John T. Raymond. The name was changed from Eschol to Beriah to accommodate an Eschol Sellers who rose up out of the vastly deeps of uncharted space and preferred his request--backed by threat of a libel suit--then went his way appeased, and came no more. In the play Beriah had to be dropped to satisfy another member of the race, and Mulberry was substituted in the hope that the objectors would be… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1892. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 258 pages. In Good condition. Bound in red cloth with gilt and black lettering and black stamped images. Boards show cocking to spine. bumping to corners, sunning to spine, and mild edge wear and shelfwear. Textblock has light age toning, foxing to pages, splitting between pages 160 and 161 and between pages 192 and 193, and partial splitting to rear interior hinge. Shelved Room A. BAL 3434. 1372575. Special Collections.