Twain, Mark

SALESMAN'S SAMPLE FOR THE AUTHOR'S NATIONAL EDITION OF THE WORKS

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 0 · Charles Agvent

$750.00 (€677.46 | £566.47 | ¥119,856)

New York & London. Harper & Brothers. First Edition. Publisher's slim plain dark green cloth (4-7/8" x 7-1/2") consisting of sample text pages and illustrations. A sample volume used to sell the 25-volume set and includes the facsimile page: "This is the authorized Uniform Edi...

THE NEW GUIDE OF THE CONVERSATION IN PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH

(TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]) CAROLINO, Pedro · 1883 · Charles Agvent

$1,875.00 (€1,693.66 | £1,416.17 | ¥299,641)

Boston. James R. Osgood & Company. First Edition. BAL 3412. Contains Clemens's 5-page Introduction. Issued in both wraps and cloth, this is a scarce set of unbound sheets consisting of 13 signatures (the preface sheet and front endpaper are loose), a result of the publisher's...

A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 1889 · Charles Agvent

$625.00 (€564.55 | £472.06 | ¥99,880)

New York. Charles L. Webster & Co.. First Edition. Publisher's decorated green cloth. Illustrated with plates and engravings. BAL 3429: Fly-title unprinted; second state of page 59 with broken type on page 72. A satire using the vehicle of time travel.. Owner name dated 1892 o...

ROUGHING IT

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 1872 · Charles Agvent

$937.50 (€846.83 | £708.09 | ¥149,820)

Hartford et. al.. American Publishing Company. First Edition. Publisher's black cloth. BAL 3337: State A of page 242, with final ad leaf. Publisher's imprint is as listed by Blanck. Also includes all of the other First State points. Illustrated with two frontispieces, six full...

THE GILDED AGE. A TALE OF TODAY

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] and WARNER, Charles Dudley · 1874 · Charles Agvent

$750.00 (€677.46 | £566.47 | ¥119,856)

Hartford. American Publishing Company. Original gilt-decorated black cloth. Early but not first printing of Mark Twain's first novel, its title giving name to the peculiarly American era it describes. Illustrated with plates and engravings. BAL 3357. Issue without ads at rear....

THREE ACES. Jim Todd's Episode in Social Euchre. A Poem and A Denial

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 0 · Charles Agvent

$125.00 (€112.91 | £94.41 | ¥19,976)

(Westport, CT). (Robin and Marian MacVicars). First Edition. Stiff rust-colored stapled wraps printed in black; [8] pages including covers, the rear cover blank. Stated limitation of only 50 copies printed as a Christmas greeting for this poem by Mark Twain, "now for the first...

ARCHIVE OF TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED (ALSs) with Fine Content to Frank Holme with Material from the Bandar Log Press

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · Charles Agvent

$11,875.00 (€10,726.48 | £8,969.10 | ¥1,897,724)

Riverdale on the Hudson and New York City. Archive of 6 pieces including two AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED with excellent content, one letter referencing a famous passage of his and the other a poignant unpublished letter pertaining to his wife Olivia who had died the previous mont...

FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR. A JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 1897 · Charles Agvent

$937.50 (€846.83 | £708.09 | ¥149,820)

Hartford/New York. American Publ./Doubleday. First Edition. Decorated blue cloth. Illustrated with a frontispiece, plates, and text engravings. BAL 3451. This copy with the preferred single Hartford imprint and the signature "11" at page 161. Mark Twain's account of his tour o...

SLOVENLY PETER

[TWAIN, Mark (CLEMENS, Samuel)] HOFFMAN, Heinrich · 1935 · Charles Agvent

$250.00 (€225.82 | £188.82 | ¥39,952)

New York. Limited Editions Club. First Edition. Large quarto (9-1/4" x 12-1/2") bound in gilt-stamped red half morocco leather with color cloth sides with a lithographed design by LeRoy H. Appleton. Copy #930 of 1500 numbered copies illustrated with water-colors by Fritz Krede...

"Forty Three Days in an Open Boat" in HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY, December 1866

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 1866 · Charles Agvent

$1,250.00 (€1,129.10 | £944.12 | ¥199,760)

New York. Harper & Brothers. First Edition. Original printed wraps. Usually found, when at all, in the bound volume with other issues, this is very scarce in original wraps and notable for containing Mark Twain's first appearance in print in a national magazine, predating his ...

"A Literary Nightmare" in THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, February, 1876

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 1876 · Charles Agvent

$125.00 (€112.91 | £94.41 | ¥19,976)

Boston. H. O. Houghton and Company. First Edition. Original printed wraps; Volume XXXVII, #220. Twain's story is about an encounter with an earworm, or virus-like jingle, and how it occupies his mind for several days until he manages to "infect" another person, thus removing t...

"The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut" in THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, June, 1876

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 0 · Charles Agvent

$156.30 (€141.18 | £118.05 | ¥24,978)

Boston. H. O. Houghton and Company. First Edition. Original printed wraps; Volume XXXVII, #224. In this 10-page humorous essay, Twain describes how the loss of a conscience can bring about bliss. Also in this issue are the first three parts of THE AMERICAN by Henry James, "A S...

ROUGHING IT

TWAIN, Mark (CLEMENS, Samuel) · 1972 · Charles Agvent

$106.30 (€96.02 | £80.29 | ¥16,988)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Tall octavo (7" x 11") bound in quarter tan buckram over patterned paper boards, spine lettered in gilt. Introduction by Edward Wagenknecht. Printed at the Sign of the Stone Book. Copy #887 of 1500 with 13 full-page color plates and a number of...

LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 1883 · Charles Agvent

$4,375.00 (€3,951.86 | £3,304.40 | ¥699,162)

Boston. James R. Osgood and Company. First Edition. Publisher's full mottled sheep leather with gilt-lettered morocco spine labels and marbled edges and endpapers. Illustrated with engravings and plates. BAL 3411: Scarce first state with tailpiece of Twain in flames on page 44...

THE TRAGEDY OF PUDD'NHEAD WILSON AND THE COMEDY [OF] THOSE EXTRAORDINARY TWINS

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 1894 · Charles Agvent

$1,875.00 (€1,693.66 | £1,416.17 | ¥299,641)

Hartford. American Publishing Company. First Edition. Publisher's decorated rust brown cloth. With all first printing points described in BAL 3442. Profusely illustrated in the margins. Notable of course for its very early use of fingerprints in fiction to solve a crime, but a...

THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 1939 · Charles Agvent

$437.50 (€395.19 | £330.44 | ¥69,916)

Cambridge. Limited Editions Club. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-1/2") bound in full blue denim with a paper spine label. Edited with an introduction by Bernard DeVoto. Designed by C. P. Rollins. Illustrated with 70 drawings by Thomas Hart Benton. Copy #323 of 1500 copies SIGNED by the ar...

THE NOTORIOUS JUMPING FROG AND OTHER STORIES

TWAIN, Mark (CLEMENS, Samuel) · 1970 · Charles Agvent

$62.50 (€56.46 | £47.21 | ¥9,988)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (7" x 11") bound in full linen of three colors with silver and gold lettering on the cover and spine and a silver frog on the cover. Printed at the Stinehour Press. Copy #887 of 1500 with color and B&W drawings by Joseph Low and SIGNED b...

PUDD'NHEAD WILSON

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 1974 · Charles Agvent

$75.00 (€67.75 | £56.65 | ¥11,986)

Avon, CT. Limited Editions Club. Two volumes with the text in a tall octavo volume (7" x 10-3/4") bound in pictorial buckram and accompanied by the much smaller (3-1/2" x 5-1/4") "Pudd'nhead Wilson Calendar" bound in marbled wraps. Both are housed in the same slipcase. Printed...

MARK TWAIN: LIFE AS I FIND IT. ESSAYS, SKETCHES, TALES, AND OTHER MATERIAL, THE MAJORITY OF WHICH IS NOW PUBLISHED IN BOOK FORM FOR THE FIRST TIME

[TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]] NEIDER, Charles (editor) · 0 · Charles Agvent

$75.00 (€67.75 | £56.65 | ¥11,986)

Garden City, NY. Hanover House (Doubleday & Company, Inc.). First Edition. Uncorrected Galley Proof in tall wraps with a printed note from the publisher stapled to the front cover. From the library of a former READER'S DIGEST editor with a note from her laid in as well as pape...

THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 1964 · Charles Agvent

$100.00 (€90.33 | £75.53 | ¥15,981)

Westerham, Kent. Limited Editions Club. Tall octavo (7-1/2" x 10-1/2") bound in luxurious half royal blue velvet and heavy gray buckram boards; 248 pages. Introduction by Edward Wagenknecht. Illustrated with 12 full-page color plates and 23 part-page monochrome sketches printe...