Mark Twain's sketches, new and old.: Now first published in complete form.: Sold only by subscription
by TWAIN, Mark
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
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1875 Mark TWAIN 1st ed Sketches Samuel Clemens Jumping Frog Poultry Blue Cloth
"But still he was lucky, uncommon lucky; he most always come out winner."
– Mark Twain, The Celebrated Jumping Frog
'Sketches, New and Old', published in 1875, was a collection of 63 of Samuel Clemens's earliest newspaper and journal writings. It was his most ambitious, most thoroughly sifted, and most fully revised collection of his apprentice work. It was also his final one. Some works include:
· The Jumping Frog
· To Raise Poultry
· Science vs. luck
· A Curious dream
Many of the short stories in this collection were of materials that Twain used in his public readings and lectures. It was published similarly to that of many of his other 'subscription books,' but it was a much smaller book and printed on more 'squarish' paper than that of his other works.
This first edition is bound in the original blue cloth with decorative gilt on the front cover and meets all first edition points below.
Item number: #22338
Price: $550
TWAIN, Mark
Mark Twain's sketches, new and old.: Now first published in complete form.: Sold only by subscription
[Hartford]: The American Publishing Company. Hartford, Conn., and Chicago, Ill., 1875. First edition.
Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o 320
o Numerous illustrations throughout
· References: BAL 3364;
· Notes on edition:
o pg. 120: Footnote not present.
o pg. 299: "From Hospital Days" not present.
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
o Decorative blue cloth
· Size: ~8.75in X 7in (22cm x 18cm)
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22338
- Title
- Mark Twain's sketches, new and old.: Now first published in complete form.: Sold only by subscription
- Author
- TWAIN, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover; tight and secure
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The American Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- [Hartford]
- Date Published
- 1875
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1875 Mark TWAIN 1st ed Sketches Samuel Clemens Jumping Frog Poultry Blue Cloth, rare, antique, old, first edition, 1st state, provenance, signed, inscribed, dust jacket, vellum, manuscript, engravings, illustrations, leather, plates, maps, antiquarian
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