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[Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)]. "Instructions in Art, Part I." [contained in:] The New Metropolitan. New York: The Metropolitan Magazine Company, April, 1903. First edition. Octavo (9.375 x 6.5 inches; 240 x 165 mm.). [8, ads and contents], 128, [8, portraits], [16, ads] pages. Color frontispiece inserted with numerous in-text and full-age illustrations throughout (including some by Twain in his… Read more about this item

Mark Twain [Samuel L. Clemens]. Mark Twain's Joan of Arc. [New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1896]. Publisher's order form flyer for the first edition of Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc... Octavo (7.5 x 5 inches; 190 x 125 mm.). [4] pages. Eugene Grasset illustration on the first page (cover-title). Single sheet bifolium. A few trivial edge nicks and… Read more about this item

[Mark Twain (contributor)]. M. E. Wood (compiler). Lawrence and Eleanor Hutton. Their Books of Association. New York: Privately printed, 1905. First edition, limited to 152 numbered copies, of which this is number 145. Octavo (9.125 x 6.125 inches; 230 x 155 mm.). [8], 208, [2, blank] pages, limitation leaf inserted; bifolium with biographical information for Laurence Hutton laid in. Frontispiece… Read more about this item

[Mark Twain]. Kevin Mac Donnell and Allan Gribben (editors). Mark Twain's Rubáiyát. Austin & Santa Barbara: Jenkins Publishing Company/Karpeles Manuscript Library, [1983]. First edition, limited to 650 copies, of which this is number 406. Quarto (12 x 9 pages; 300 x 225 mm.). [2, blank], 67, [1, blank], [1, limitation], [1, blank] pages. 6 pages of facsimile reproductions. Publisher's pictorial… Read more about this item

Mark Twain [Samuel L. Clemens]. Following the Equator. A Journey around the World. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897. First edition, variant with a single imprint on the inserted title-page (also seen with a double imprint with Doubleday & McClure; no priority, but Johnson preferred the single imprint). Octavo (8.875 x 5.75 inches; 225 x 145 mm.). [2, inserted title-leaf], [3]-712… Read more about this item

[Mark Twain (subject)]. Will M. Clemens. Mark Twain. His Life and Work. A Biographical Sketch. Chicago: F. Tennyson Neely, [1898]. Third edition, issued as part of the ""Neely's Tourist Library"" series. Octavo (7.5 x 5.125 inches; 190 x 130 mm.). 212. [2, ads] pages. Publisher's side-stapled binding in the original wrappers, printed in red and black with a portrait of… Read more about this item

[Mark Twain (contributor)]. Marshall P. Wilder (editor). The Wit and Humor of America. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, [circa 1911]. New edition with a new editor (originally edited by Kate Robb Milner and published in 1907 by Bobbs Merrill in five volumes); not the Library edition, published around the same time. Ten volumes. Twelvemo (5.875 x 4 inches; 150… Read more about this item

[Mark Twain (subject)]. Cyril Clemens (editor). Tributes to Mark Twain. By Members of the Society. Paris: Mark Twain Society, 1930. First edition, limited to 500 copies. Octavo (7 x 5.25 inches; 180 x 135 mm.). 13, [2, blank], [1, printer] pages. Publisher's saddle-stapled binding in the original printed wrappers. Large bruise (about two inches wide) down the center of of… Read more about this item

[Mark Twain (contributor)]. Gutenberg-Museums. Gutenberg-fetz zu Mainz im Jahre 1900. Zugleich Erinnerungs-Gabe an die Eröffnung des Gutenberg-Museums am 23. Juni 1901. Mainz: Hermann Quasthoff, 1901. First edition. Quarto (9.25 x 6.75 inches; 235 x 170 mm.). [4], 139, [1, blank] pages without the addendum (Nachtrag) slip. Frontispiece. Publisher's perfect binding in the original light grayish-blue wrappers; all edges of the… Read more about this item

[Mark Twain]. Holker Abbot (compiler). Bear with Us. A Collection of Tavern Club Verses. [Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1905]. First edition. Octavo (8 x 5 inches; 205 x 125 mm.). [2, blank], iv, [2, note (verso blank)], 57, [1, printer imprint], [2, blank] pages. Publisher's brown cloth over dark gray paper-covered boards, printed paper label affixed to the spine; page… Read more about this item

[Mark Twain (subject)]. Jervis Langdon. Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Some Reminiscences and Some Excerpts from Letters and Unpublished Manuscripts. [Elmira: Privately printed, 1938]. First edition. Octavo (9 x 6 inches; 230 x 155 mm.). 26, [2, blank] pages. Full-page photographic portrait of Twain on page [1]. Publisher's saddle-stapled bindings in the original paper wrappers, gray variant, printed in black; cover title.… Read more about this item

Mark Twain [Samuel L. Clemens]. The £1,000,000 Bank Note. And Other New Stories. New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1893. First edition. Octavo (7.5 x 5.25 inches; 190 x 135 mm.). 260, [2, blank], 9 (ads), [1, blank] pages. Frontispiece inserted and included in the pagination. Publisher's light grayish-brown cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt, front board… Read more about this item

Mark Twain [Samuel L. Clemens]. Mark Twain's Autobiography. With an Introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1924. First edition, later printing with the publisher's code, K-Y (October 1924, two months after the first), on the copyright page; BAL's state A with ads at the end of the second volume (no priority). Two volumes. Octavo (9.25… Read more about this item

[Miniature book]. Mark Twain [Samuel L. Clemens]. The Old Time Printer. Baltimore: The Xavier Press, 1988. First edition, limited to 175 copies, of which this is number 107. Miniature (2.25 x 1.75 inches; 58 x 45 mm.). [2, blank], vi, 18, [2, blank], [1, limitation], [3, blank] pages. Mounted frontispiece, in-text illustration on page 3. Publisher's brown cloth, spine and… Read more about this item

[Mark Twain (contributor)]. Short Stories... Take One... Free. [Des Moines: Chamberlain Medicine Company, 1910]. First (?) edition of an advertising pamphlet for Chamberlain Medicine. Octavo (9.875 x 6.875 inches; 250 x 175 mm.). 15, [1, ad] pages, printed in red and black. In-text illustrations throughout. Original self-wrappers and cover title; gatherings unbound (?), presumably as issued since there is only… Read more about this item

[Mark Twain (subject)]. [Paul Blouët]. Jonathan and His Continent. (Rambles through American Society). By Max O'Rell (pseudonym) and Jack Allyn. London: Cassell & Co., [1889]. First edition. Signed by the author, with compliments, using both his real name and pen name. Octavo (7.125 x 4.75 inches; 180 x 120 mm.). [2, blank], [6], ix, [1, blank], 313, [1, blank], [4,… Read more about this item

[Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)]. "The Panama Railroad". [contained in:] Chips from Literary Workshops. New York: The Chips Publishing Co., March, 1895. First edition. Sixteenmo (5.875 x 4.5 inches; 150 x 115 mm.). Eight unpaginated leaves. In-text portrait of John Kendrick Bangs, decorative head- and tailpieces. Disbound, side-stitching removed and newly, but discreetly, respined; original self-wrappers and cover-title, printed in… Read more about this item

[Mark Twain]. John Hakac. Huckleberry Finn: More Molecules. By Tak Sioui (pseudonym). [Tuscon, AZ, or Pecos, TX (?)]: Privately printed, 1962. First edition. Octavo (8 x 5.25 inches; 200 x 135 mm.). [2, blank], [6], v, [1, blank], 37, [1, blank], [9, appendix], [3, blank] pages. Four full-page illustrations in the appendix. Publisher's dark green cloth, spine lettered in gilt,… Read more about this item

Mark Twain [Samuel L. Clemens]. The Prince and the Pauper. A Tale for Young People of All Ages. Boston: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. First U. S. edition, Webster issue, using the original sheets, purchased after James R. Osgood went bankrupt, and a cancel title-leaf; text corrected (second state). Octavo (8.25 x 6.5 inches; 210 x 165 mm.). [2,… Read more about this item

[Mark Twain (subject)]. William C. Spengemann. Mark Twain and the Backwoods Angel. The Matter of Innocence in the Works of Samuel L. Clemens. [No place, Kent (?)]: The Kent State University Press, [1966]. First edition. Octavo (9.25 x 6 inches; 235 x 155 mm.). xvi, 143, [1] pages. Publisher's dark brownish red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; all edges of… Read more about this item