Tom Sawyer Abroad; And Other Stories (Series: Famous Tales of Adventure.)
by Twain, Mark (Pseudonym of Samuel L. Clemens)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1924. (Hardcover) 217pp. Very good in good to very good dust jacket. Light green cloth with black lettering on the cover and spine. Top edge stained red, illustrated endpapers, illustrated frontispiece, illustrations. Lightly edgeworn, the dust jacket is chipped and edgeworn with some soiling to the edges of the inner flaps. "The title story of this volume takes Tom, Huck and the darky Jim across the Atlantic in a balloon. The boys, accidentally in sole possession of the machine, fly over the Sahara desert, and 'roost' on a pyramid to 'argufy' in the best hilarious Twain manner". Pseudonym of Samuel L. Clemens. Series: Famous Tales of Adventure. (Juvenile, Short Stories, Stories).
Synopsis
Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of Jules Verne-esque adventure stories.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 153969
- Title
- Tom Sawyer Abroad; And Other Stories (Series: Famous Tales of Adventure.)
- Author
- Twain, Mark (Pseudonym of Samuel L. Clemens)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Keywords
- Juvenile, Short Stories, Stories
- Bookseller catalogs
- Juvenile;
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About the Seller
Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
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