Twain, Mark

PUDD'NHEAD WILSON

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

$62.50 (€56.46 | £47.21 | ¥9,988)

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...

THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER

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

$500.00 (€451.64 | £377.65 | ¥79,904)

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 #665 of 1500 copies SIGNED by the ar...

LES AVENTURES DE TOM SAWYER

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

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

Paris. Bibliothèque Nouvelle de la Jeunesse/A. Hennuyer. First French Edition. Quarto (7" x 9") in publisher's tan pictorial cloth stamped in red and black on the spine and front cover with 4 embossed color vignettes on the front cover and one embossed color vignette on the r...

THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER

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

$625.00 (€564.55 | £472.06 | ¥99,880)

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 #440 of 1500 copies SIGNED by the ar...

SLOVENLY PETER

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

$437.50 (€395.19 | £330.44 | ¥69,916)

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. Illustrated with water-colors by Fritz Kredel adapted from the original illust...

THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER

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

$137.50 (€124.20 | £103.85 | ¥21,974)

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...

THE NOTORIOUS JUMPING FROG AND OTHER STORIES

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

$75.00 (€67.75 | £56.65 | ¥11,986)

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 #39 of 1500 with color and B&W drawings by Joseph Low and SIGNED by...

PUDD'NHEAD WILSON

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

$93.80 (€84.73 | £70.85 | ¥14,990)

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...

THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER

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

$125.00 (€112.91 | £94.41 | ¥19,976)

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...

SLOVENLY PETER

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

$500.00 (€451.64 | £377.65 | ¥79,904)

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 #1188 of 1500 numbered copies illustrated with water-colors by Fritz Kred...

THE INNOCENTS ABROAD OR THE NEW PILGRIMS' PROGRESS BEING SOME ACCOUNT OF THE ... PLEASURE EXCURSION TO EUROPE & THE HOLY LAND

TWAIN, Mark (CLEMENS, Samuel) · 1962 · Charles Agvent

$93.80 (€84.73 | £70.85 | ¥14,990)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Octavo (6-1/2" x 10") bound in a red linen buckram spine with a leather label stamped in pure gold leaf and boards covered with paper hand-marbled to achieve a peacock tail effect by Douglas Cockerell & Son. Printed at the Thistle Press. Copy #...

THE NOTORIOUS JUMPING FROG AND OTHER STORIES

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

$125.00 (€112.91 | £94.41 | ¥19,976)

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 #1087 of 1500 with color and B&W drawings by Joseph Low and SIGNED ...

"The 1,000,000 Pound Bank Note" in THE CENTURY, Vol. XLV, #3

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 1893 · Charles Agvent

$156.30 (€141.18 | £118.05 | ¥24,978)

New York. The Century Company. First Edition. Original printed wraps. The first appearance of Twain's story. Also includes articles on John Greenleaf Whittier (with a portrait); Halbot Knight Browne "Phiz," with illustrations by him; the Great Wall of China; and the Kindergart...

THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (TOM SAWYER'S COMRADE). SCENE: THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. TIME: FORTY TO FIFTY YEARS AGO

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 1884 · Charles Agvent

$2,500.00 (€2,258.21 | £1,888.23 | ¥399,521)

London. Chatto & Windus. First British Edition. Decorated red cloth. Preceding the American edition by four months. With 174 illustrations by E.W. Kemble. BAL 3414: Sequence B with the gatherings saddle-stitched with wire staples as opposed to sewn. BAL assigns no priority to ...

THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER

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

$125.00 (€112.91 | £94.41 | ¥19,976)

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...

ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN. (TOM SAWYER'S COMRADE). SCENE: THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. TIME: FORTY TO FIFTY YEARS AGO

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 1885 · Charles Agvent

$6,250.00 (€5,645.52 | £4,720.58 | ¥998,802)

New York. Charles L. Webster & Company. First Edition. Original decorated green cloth. With 174 illustrations by E. W. Kemble. BAL 3415: With first issue points of pages 13, 57, and 143; second issue of title page, frontispiece, and page 155; and fourth issue of page 283. Also...

"The Esquimau Maiden's Romance" in THE COSMOPOLITAN, Vol. XVI, #1

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 1893 · Charles Agvent

$93.80 (€84.73 | £70.85 | ¥14,990)

New York. First Edition. Original printed wraps. "Railroad Edition" stated at bottom of front wrap. Dan Beard illustrated Twain's interesting piece which contains the following quote about humility: "There's a breed of humility which is itself a species of showing off." Other ...

MARK TWAIN'S (BURLESQUE) AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND FIRST ROMANCE

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

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

New York. Sheldon & Company. First Edition. Publisher's green cloth, gilt. BAL 3326: First State without ad. Twain's fictional history of his ancestry with anonymous illustrations satirizing Jay Gould and the Erie Railroad scandal. . Professional tissue repair to front hinge b...

ENGLISH AS SHE IS TAUGHT

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

$187.50 (€169.37 | £141.62 | ¥29,964)

New York. Mutual Book Co.. First Edition. First American and First Separate Edition. Original gray printed wraps printed in red and black. BAL 3465: Second issue with corrected text on page 16. A collection of humorous observations reflecting the state of contemporary educatio...

A DOUBLE BARRELLED DETECTIVE STORY

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 1902 · Charles Agvent

$93.80 (€84.73 | £70.85 | ¥14,990)

New York. Harper & Brothers. First Edition. Decorated red cloth. BAL 3471: State A of front & rear endpapers, state B of others. With seven illustrations by Lucius Hitchcock. Twain's parody of Sherlock Holmes. Small leather bookplate with offsetting to front endpaper. Horizont...