CONVERSATION AS IT WAS BY THE SOCIAL FIRESIDE
by Twain, Mark [Clemens, S. L.]
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Austin, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Twain, Mark [Clemens, S. L.] CONVERSATION AS IT WAS BY THE SOCIAL FIRESIDE IN THE TIME OF THE TUDORS [Philadelphia? Printed for the Flatulence Society of Pittsburgh, 1917] First illustrated edition, one of 150 copies printed. Small folio, French-folded, on Japan vellum, with copperplate etchings inserted. Original three-quarter vellum and purple silk sides. Some aging of spine and wear along edges, but a very good copy. In this copy the initial letters have not been rubricated as usual; perhaps an undistributed copy. Both Meine and Haas date this volume 1916, but the frontispiece and illustrations (by Josef Pierre Nuyttens, 1885-1960) are inserted etchings dated 1917 in the plates. Previous editions (1894 and 1903, for example) had pictorial initial letters, but this was the first edition to have full-page illustrations, and is by far the most lavish edition of this work ever published. Meine 6. Haas 6.
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- Bookseller
- Mac Donnell Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23132
- Title
- CONVERSATION AS IT WAS BY THE SOCIAL FIRESIDE
- Author
- Twain, Mark [Clemens, S. L.]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Keywords
- 1601 , FLATULANCE SOC , NUYTTENS, J P , BINDING
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Mac Donnell Rare Books
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Austin, Texas
About Mac Donnell Rare Books
The owner of Mac Donnell Rare Books is a former rare book librarian and widely published bibliographer with more than 40 years experience in rare books. We maintain a fine rare book inventory of 19th and 20th century American and English literary first editions, association copies, and autographs, with a specialty in Mark Twain. We also offer qualified tax and insurance appraisals, and library development consultation.
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