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Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old.
by Twain, Mark
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Wilmington, Delaware, United States
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About This Item
Hartford, CT: The American Publishing Company, 1875. First Edition, Second State . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. F.W. Williams. 320pp. Blue publisher's cloth stamped with gilt lettering and black decoration. First Edition, Second State. Spine ends and corners lightly jworn, spine slightly darkened, small crack to front endpaper. Binding is tight, contents are age-toned, an occasional spot in margins, but mainly clean. Illustrated. Amusing story-telling by a master.
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- Bookseller
- Old Bookshelf
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004439
- Title
- Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old.
- Author
- Twain, Mark
- Illustrator
- F.W. Williams
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Second State
- Publisher
- The American Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Hartford, CT
- Date Published
- 1875
- Pages
- 320
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Anecdotes Humor
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature and Fiction; First Edition;
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About the Seller
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
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