Mark Twain Collection
at the WVU Libraries
This is a list of the Mark Twain books in the Rare Book Room at the West Virginia University Libraries, including the books in this exhibit.
Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: The writings of Mark Twain [pseud.]
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., American Publishing Co. [1899-1900]
Description: Edition De Luxe.
22 v. fronts., illus., plates, ports. 22 cm.
Notes: Vol. 22 contains first edition material.
Engraved t.-p.
Each volume has also and individual title page.
Imperfect: illustration listed for v.5, p. 266 wanting.
"The edition de luxe of Mark Twain's works is limited to
one thousand copies, of which this is no. 410."
Uncut.
Bound in green buckram with paper label on spine.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, 1935, p. 68 (for v.22) and p. 151.
Table of Contents: v.1-2. The innocents abroad.
v.3-4. A tramp abroad.
v.5-6. Following the equator.
v.7-8. Roughing it.
v.9. Life on the Mississippi.
v.10-11. The gilded age.
v.12. The adventures of Tom Sawyer.
v.13. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
v.14. Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those extraordinary twins.
v.15. The Prince and the pauper.
v.16. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court.
v.17-18. Personal recollections of Joan of Arc.
v.19. Sketches, new and old.
v.20. Tom Sawyer abroad. Tom Sawyer, detective, and other
stories, etc., etc.
v.21. The American claimant and other stories and sketches.
v.22. How to tell a story and other essays.
Call Number: 817 C591A3
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Other Author(s): Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900.
Title: The writings of Mark Twain.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Joan, 1412-1431.
Voyages around the world.
Christian Science.
Mississippi River--Description and travel.
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : American Pub. Co., 1899-1907.
Description: Autograph edition.
25 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes: Each vol. has engraved general t.p. and also special t.p.
"The autograph edition of Mark Twain's Works is limited to
five hundred and twelve copies, of which this is no.
104."
Letter by Samuel L. Clemens pasted in front of v.1.
Some prints are signed by the artist.
Bound in half morocco with marbled boards; marbled lining
papers.
Table of Contents: v.1-2. The innocents abroad.
v.3-4. A tramp abroad.
v.5-6. Following the equator.
v.7-8. Roughing it.
v.9. Life on the Mississippi.
v.10-11. The gilded age, by Mark Twain ... and Charles
Dudley Warner.
v.12. The adventures of Tom Sawyer.
v.13. Huckleberry Finn.
v.14 Pudd'nhead Wilson.
v.15. The prince and the pauper.
v.16. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court.
v.17-18. Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte [pseud.]
... tr. out of the ancient French by Jean François Alden
[pseud.].
v.19. Sketches, new and old.
v.20. Tom Sawyer abroad. Tom Sawyer, detective, etc.
v.21. The American claimant, etc.
v.22. How to tell a story, etc.
v.23. My début as a literary person, etc.
v.24. The $30,000 bequest, etc.
v.25. Christian Science.
Call Number: 817 C591A4
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Other Author(s): Bennett, James O'Donnell, 1870-1940.
Honce, Charles, 1895-1975.
Title: The adventures of Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass [by] Mark
Twain [pseud.] edited by Charles Honce, with a foreword
by Vincent Starrett, and a note on "A celebrated village
idiot" by James O'Donnell Bennett.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Clemens, Orion, 1825-1897.
Publisher: Chicago, P. Covici, inc., 1928.
Description: 1st ed.
xxiii, [1], 59 p. 24 cm.
Notes: "This edition of The adventures of Thomas Jefferson
Snodgrass is limited to three hundred and seventy-five
numbered copies of which this is no. 218."
First published in the Keokuk Saturday post and the Keokuk
daily post, 1856-57 cf. Introd.
The "celebrated village idiot" is Orion Clemens.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain. p. 107-108.
Call Number: 817 C591ad
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: The American claimant, by Mark Twain [pseud.]
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, C.L. Webster & Co., 1892.
Description: 1st ed.
4 p. l., xi-xv, 17-277 p. incl. front., illus. 21 cm.
Notes: Advertisements, 8 pages, at end.
Bound in olive green twilled cloth.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 53.
Call Number: 817 C591am2
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Other Author(s): Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941.
Hurst, Hal, 1865-
Title: The American claimant, by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)
With 81 illustrations by Dan Beard and Hal Hurst.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus, 1892.
Description: xi, 258 p. incl. front., illus. 20 cm.
Notes: First English edition.
Advertisements, 32 pages, at end dated May, 1892.
Bound in red cloth.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 53.
Call Number: 817 C591am3
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Author: New England Society in the City of New York.
Other Author(s): Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Seventy first anniversary celebration of the New-England
Society in the City of New York at Delmonico's, December
22, 1876.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, n.p. [1876?]
Description: 116 p. 23 cm.
Notes: "Address of Mr. Samuel L. Clemens": p. 50-54.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 244.
Call Number: 817 C591as
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Be good, be good, a poem by Mark Twain [pseud.]
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, Priv. Print., 1931.
Description: [4] p. 21.2 cm.
Notes: First edition: single fold.
Printed on vellum in blue ink.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain. 1935. p. 135.
Call Number: 817 C591b
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Other Author(s): Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: A Ballotd : owed phor the tymz not the knusepaper / by
Twark Main, skulemarster.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: Harfford Sitteigh [i.e. Hartford, Conn. : s.n.], 1871.
Description: broadside ; 45.5 x 30 cm.
Notes: A political dodger attributed to Mark Twain.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain. 1935. p. 132.
Call Number: 817 C591ba
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Other Author(s): Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: A boy's adventure : The whipping boy's story / Mark Twain.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: [Privately printed, ca.1929]
Description: [4] p. ; 21 cm.
Notes: Caption title.
Reprinted "From the Bazaar Budget, Hartford, Friday, June
4, 1880."
"100 copies only printed. This is no. 85."--Cf. Manuscript
note by Merle Johnson.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain. 1935. p. 41.
Call Number: 817 C591bo
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court / by Mark
Twain.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York : Charles L. Webster & co., 1889.
Description: xv, 17-575 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes: First edition, first state.
Advertisements, 2 pages, at end.
Half-title on recto of frontispiece; illus. on p.59 has a
scroll decoration between the words "The" and
"King."--Unbroken type at the lower left of p. 72. Stamp
at final end paper numbered C 4444.
Green end papers with an all over printed floral design.
Bound in green twilled cloth with stamping in gold, blue
and black.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 50.
Call Number: 817 C591c2a
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court / by Mark
Twain.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York : Charles L. Webster & Co., 1889.
Description: xv, 17-575 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes: First edition; first state.
Advertisements, 2 pages, at end.
On cover: A Yankee in King Arthur's court.
Half-title on recto of frontispiece; no scroll decoration
between "The" and "King" in the illus. on p.
59.--Perfect type on p. 72. Stamp at final end paper
numbered A 4683.
Olive green end papers with an all over floral design.
Bound in green twilled cloth with stamping in gold, blue
and black.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 50.
Call Number: 817 C591c2b
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court, by Mark Twain
.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, Charles L. Webster & Company, 1889.
Description: xv, 17-575 p. illus. 22 cm.
Notes: First edition, first state.
Advertisements, 2 pages, at end.
On cover: A Yankee in King Arthur's court.
Half-title on recto of frontispiece; scroll decoration
between "The" and "King" in the illus. on p.
59.--Defective type on p. 72.
Green end papers with an all over floral design.
Bound in green twilled cloth with stamping in gold, blue
and black.
Publisher's stamp wanting from back fly leaf.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 50.
Call Number: 817 C591c2c
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court, by Mark Twain.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, Charles L. Webster & Company, 1889.
Description: xv, 17-575 p. illus. 22 cm.
Notes: First edition, later state.
Advertisements, 2 pages, at end.
On cover: A Yankee in King Arthur's court.
Without half-title on recto of frontispiece. Scroll
decoration between "The" and "King" in the illustration
on p. 59. Defective type on p. 72.
Olive green end papers with an all over floral design.
Stamp at final end paper numbered C 887.
Bound in green twilled cloth with stamping in gold, blue
and black.
Pencilled autograph: A.F. Bromley.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 50.
Call Number: 817 C591c2d
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Other Author(s): Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941.
Title: [Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. 1889]
A Yankee at the court of King Arthur, by Mark Twain (Samuel
L. Clemens) [publisher's device] With 220 illustrations
by Dan. Beard.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly, 1889. [All rights
reserved]
Description: xvi, 525 p. illus. 20 cm.
Notes: First English edition.
Publisher's catalog, dated October 1889, 32 p., inserted at
end.
Bound in red cloth.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of Mark Twain, p. 51.
Call Number: 817 C591c3
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: A champagne cocktail and a catastrophe : two acting
charades / by Mark Twain.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: [New York : s.n., 1930?]
Description: [8] p. ; 19 cm.
Notes: Cover title.
"Printed from the original manuscript in the possession of
Robin and Marian MacVicars who present this Mark Twain
gem in a limited edition, now for the first time
printed, to their friends. Xmas 1930."
"Printed in New York City, about 1930 ... Robin and Marian
MacVicars are figments of the imagination." -- Blanck,
Bibliography of American Literature.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain. 1935. p. 108.
Call Number: 817 C591cc
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Christian science, with notes containing corrections to
date, by Mark Twain [pseud.] ...
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Christian Science.
Publisher: New York, London, Harper & Brothers, 1907.
Description: 4 p. l. [3]-362 p. front. (port.) 2 pl. 21 cm.
Notes: First edition, first issue: Caption below frontispiece
is"Mark Twain" in autograph facsimile, page [3] line 9
has perfect "r" in the word "farmhouses", page 5, line
14 has the original "W" in the word "Why". Preliminary
leaf 2, recto, listing the illustrations, has 7 lines,
including all carry-over lines.
Bound in original red cloth, circular M T monogram stamped
in gold on front cover and in blind on back cover.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 87-89.
Call Number: 817 C591cha
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Christian science, with notes containing corrections to
date, by Mark Twain [pseud.]
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Christian Science.
Publisher: London, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1907.
Description: 4 p.l. [3]-362p. front. (port.) plates. 19.4 cm.
Notes: First edition, early state. Caption below frontispiece is
"Mark Twain" in autograph facsimile. Page [3], line 9,
letter "r" of word "farm-houses" is missing; page 5,
line 14 has perfect letter "W" in word "Why".
Preliminary leaf 2, recto, listing the illustration has
7 lines including carryoverlines. Stamp of Arthur S.
Dayton on fly leaf.
Bound in original red cloth, circular M T monogram in gold
on front cover and in blind on back cover.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 87-89.
Call Number: 817 C591chb
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Christian science, with notes containing corrections to
date, by Mark Twain [pseud.]
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, Harper, 1907.
Description: 362 p. front. (port.) 2 pl. 20.5 cm.
Notes: First edition, later or intermediate state. Caption below
frontispiece is "Mark Twain" in autograph facsimile.
Page [3], line 9, the letter "r" appears to have been
replaced in the word "farm-houses"; page r, line 14 the
letter "W" has been inserted in the word "Why".
Preliminary leaf 2, recto, listing the illustrations has
only 5 lines. Inscription "Mr Samuel Woods, June 19,
1907. From Ruth." on front fly-leaf.
Bound in original red cloth, circular M T monogram stamped
in gold on front cover and in blind on back cover.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 87-89.
Call Number: 817 C591chc
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Cosmopolitan, v. 27, 1899, no. 6.
Christian Science and the book of Mrs. Eddy / by Mark Twain
[i.e. S. L. Clemens]
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Eddy, Mary Baker, 1821-1910.
Christian Science.
Publisher: Irvington, N.Y. : Cosmopolitan Press, 1899.
Description: p.[585]-594 ; 25 cm.
Notes: First printing.
Caption title.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain. 1935. p. 207.
Call Number: 817 C591cs
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: The curious republic of Gondour, and other whimsical
sketches, by Samuel L. Clemens ...
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, Boni and Liveright, 1919.
Description: 1st ed.
vii p., 1 l., 140 p. 20 cm.
Notes: "Most of the sketches in this volume were taken from a
series the author wrote for the Galaxy from May, 1870,
to April, 1871. The rest appeared in the Buffalo
express."
Bound in yellow boards, white cloth back.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 96.
Call Number: 817 C591cu
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: A double barrelled detective story, by Mark Twain [pseud.]
... illustrated by Lucius Hitchcock.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, London, Harper & Brothers, 1902.
Description: 3 p. l., 3-179 p. front., plates. 21 cm.
Notes: First American edition: Library copy has only 2 fly leaves
instead of 3 at end.
Illustrated lining papers with varying arrangements of
designs.
Bound in original red cloth.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 75.
Call Number: 817 C591d
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: A dog's tale, by Mark Twain [pseud.] illus. by W.T.
Smedley.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, London, Harper & Brothers, 1904.
Description: 2 p. l., 35, [1] p. 4 col. pl. (incl. front.) 21 cm.
Notes: First American trade edition with imprint: New York and
London. Presumably issued simultaneously with the first
English edition.
"Mark Twain's famous dog story ... firs appeared in
Harper's magazine." Cf. dust jacket.
Bound in red cloth with stamping in white and black.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 78.
Call Number: 817 C591do2
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Extract from Captain Stormfield's visit in heaven, by Mark
Twain [pseud.]
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York and London, Harper & Brothers, 1909.
Description: 3 p.l. 1-[120]p. front. 20.6 cm.
Notes: First edition, first issue, measuring 3/4" in thickness.
Bound in original red cloth with picture on cover.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 91.
Call Number: 817 C591ea
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Extract from Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven, by Mark
Twain [pseud.]
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, London, Harper & Brothers, 1909.
Description: 2 p. l., 120 p., 1 l. front. 21 cm.
Notes: First edition, second issue, measuring less than 3/4" in
thickness.
Bound in original red cloth with picture on cover.
Pencilled note on front fly leaf: For Honnes 12-25-09.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 91.
Call Number: 817 C591eb
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: English as she is taught, by Mark Twain [pseud.] with
biographical sketch of author by Matthew Irving Lans.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Examinations--Questions.
Publisher: Boston, Mass., Mutual Book Company [c1900]
Description: 28 p. 19 cm.
Notes: First American edition in book form, first state: p. 16,
line 5, the word "five" misspelled "fivc."
Page of publisher's advertisements at end.
"A review of Caroline B. Le Row's little book 'English as
she is Taught', New York [c1887]' Johnson, P. 72.
Copy "a" Bound in grey paper wrappers.
Copy "b" Bound in original green cloth. Printed matter of
front cover repeated on back cover.
Copy "b" Bookplate of Ward Bonsall on inside front cover.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 71.
Call Number: 817 C591en
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Author: Le Row, Caroline, 1843-
Other Author(s): Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: English as she is taught; being genuine answers to
examination questions in our public schools, collected
by Caroline B. Le Row; with a commentary thereon by Mark
Twain [pseud.]
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): English language--Study and teaching.
English language--Errors of usage.
Publisher: London, T. F. Unwin, 1887.
Description: xii, 109, [1] p. 16 cm.
Notes: First edition in book form of Mark Twain's Commentary
published in London before the first American edition.
Bound in imitation alligator skin cloth.
Autograph: D.M. Birkett, 1887.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 72.
Call Number: 817 C591enYl
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Author: Le Row, Caroline Bigelow, 1843-
Title: English as she is taught. Genuine answers to examination
questions in our public schools. Collected by Caroline
B. Le Row.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): English language--Study and teaching--United States.
English language--Errors of usage.
Publisher: New York, Cassell Publishing Company [c1887]
Description: First American edition.
ix, 109 p. 15 1/2 cm. x 11 1/2 cm.
Notes: Contains a four line extract of Mark Twain's review of the
book which appeared in the Century Magazine for April
1887, on verso of half-title.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 72.
Call Number: 817 C591enYl2
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Europe and elsewhere, by Mark Twain [pseud.] with an
appreciation by Brander Matthews and an introduction by
Albert Bigelow Paine.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, London, Harper & Brothers [c1923]
Description: xxxv p., 1 l., 406 p. front., illus. 20 cm.
Notes: First edition: "E-X" on verso of title page.
First appearance in book form for all items except "A
memorable midnight experience", Queen Victoria's
jubilee, and "To the person sitting in darkness."
Bound in red cloth.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 100.
Call Number: 817 C591eu
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Eve's diary translated from the original ms, by Mark Twain
[pseud.] Illustrated by Lester Ralph.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: London, Harper & Brother's Publishers, 1906.
Description: 109 p., 2 l. incl. front. illus. 21 cm.
Notes: First publication as a separate work.
Bound in red cloth with stamping in black, green and white.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 84.
Call Number: 817 C591ev
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Author: Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920.
Other Author(s): Alden, Henry Mills, 1836-1919.
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 1844-1911.
Roach, Abby Meguire.
Pottle, Emery Bemsley.
Hibbard, George A. (George Abiah), 1858-1928.
Stetson, Grace Ellery Channing, 1862-1937.
Title: Their husbands' wives, ed. by William Dean Howells and
Henry Mills Alden.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, London, Harper & Brothers, 1906.
Description: 2 p. l., 181 p. 18 cm.
Notes: First edition containing the first printing in book form of
Mark Twain's Eve's diary.
Bound in green cloth.
Autograph: Pencil note by Merle Johnson.
Pasted in: Certificate signed by Albert Bigelow Paine:"
From the Library of Samuel Langhorne Clemens ...".--Slip
bearing the signature of W.D. Howells.--Bookplate: Ex
libris. William Hartmann Woodin.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 85.
Table of Contents: [Clemens, S.L.] Eve's diary.
Phelps, E.S. Covered embers.
Roach, A.M. Life's accolade.
Pottle, E. The bond
Hibbard, G. The eyes of affection.
Channing, G.E. "The marriage question."
Call Number: 817 C591ev2
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Editorial wild oats, by Mark Twain.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, Harper, 1905.
Description: 82 p. plates. 21 cm.
Notes: First edition of this collection, but all matter reprinted.
Bound in red cloth.
Potter, J.K. Samuel L. Clemens. First editions and values,
p. 62.
Table of Contents: My first literary venture.
Journalism in Tennessee.
Nicodemus Dodge
printer.
Mr. Bloke's item.
How I edited an agricultural paper.
The Killing of Julius Caesar localized.
Call Number: 817 C591ew
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Extracts from Adam's diary, translated from the original
MS., by Mark Twain [pseud.] Illustrated by F.
Strothmann.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1904.
Description: 3 p.l. [1]-89 [1] p. front., illus. 20.1 cm.
Notes: First publication as a separate work.
Bound in red cloth.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 80.
Call Number: 817 C591ex
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Following the equator; a journey around the world, by Mark
Twain [pseud. of Samuel L. Clemens]
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Voyages around the world.
Australia.
India.
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., The American Publishing Company, 1897.
Description: 712 p. front. (port.) illus., plates. 24 cm.
Notes: First edition, first state with single publisher's imprint.
Bound in blue cloth, with gold and color stamping, picture
of elephant on front cover.
Published in London, Nov. 25, 1897 under title More tramps
abroad.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 65-68.
Call Number: 817 C591f
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Other Author(s): Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900.
Title: The gilded age, a tale of to-day. By Mark Twain [pseud.]
author of "Innocents abroad," "Roughing it," etc. and
Charles Dudley Warner, author of "My summer in a
garden," "Back Log studies," etc., Fully illustrated
from new designs by Hoppin, Stephens, Williams, White,
etc., etc. Sold by subscription only.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., The American Publishing Company, 1873.
Description: xvi, [17]-574, [2] p. front., illus., plates., fold. map.
23 cm.
Notes: Copy "a" First edition, first state: p. 353 has 38 line of
text (the first two lines of text repeating by error the
last two lines of text on the preceding page) this being
the "Kingpoint" as established by F.C. Willson. This
copy also has the following points: "Eschol Sellers"
instead of "Beriah Sellers"on p. vii, head of p. 27, p.
247, p. 344. Page xvi ends with "211 Alice". Page 246,
5th line from bottom "Hallelujah" in perfect type, no
comma after it; p. 280 period at end of line 18. No
illus. on p. 403. Page 409, line 14, initial "W" in
"Washington" shows sign of wear; p. 473, the "C"
"Chapter LII" is perfect, but "L" in "Le Tartuffe" is
missing, this latter point being usually considered a
sign of a later state.
Copy "b" 1st ed., 1st issue, intermediate state. no. illus.
on p. 403.
Copy "c" 1st ed., 1st issue, intermediate state. 2l. of
advertisements at end. illus. on p. 403.
Copy "d" 1st ed., 1st issue, intermediate state. map
wanting.
Copy "e" 1st ed., 1st issue, intermediate state. No
advertisements in back.
Copy "f" 1st ed., 1st issue intermediate state. Stamp of
Bertrand Smith's "Acres of books" on inside front cover.
Copy "g" 1st ed., 2d issue, intermediate state.
Copy "h" 1st ed., 1st issue, intermediate state. Bound in
original brown half-Morocco, Marbled lining papers and
edges.
"Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873
..."
Electrotyper's slug on verso of t.p.
Copies "a-g" Bound in black cloth. Copy "h" Bound in
original brown half-morocco, marbled lining papers and
edges.
Varies from copies descriped by Johnson and Blanck.
Two letters containing bibliographical data from Bennett
Book Studios laid in.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 17-22.
Call Number: 817 C591g
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Other Author(s): Allen, Thomas B. (Thomas Burt), 1928-
American Revolution Bicentennial Administration.
Title: The adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's comrade) /
Mark Twain ; illustrated by Tom Allen.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: Franklin Center, Pa. : The Franklin Library, 1983.
Description: Limited ed.
323 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Series: The 100 greatest masterpieces of American literature
Notes: "Notes from the editors" (22 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.) laid in.
Call Number: 817 C591h11
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's comrade) :
Scene: The Mississippi Valley. Time: Forty to fifty
years ago / by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) with 174
illustrations.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York : Charles L. Webster and Co., 1885[c1884]
Description: 366 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., 1 port. ; 22 cm.
Notes: First edition, earliest state: p.13, illustration on p. 87
listed as on p. 88; "was" for "saw" on p. 57, line 23;
p. 143, first word is "Co" instead of "Col." and "b" in
"body", line 7, is broken; the second 5, folio of p.
155, is missing; p. 161, figure 11 denoting signature is
missing; p. 319, the word "been" on last line is gouged.
Page 283 bound within the signatue and showing
illustration before defacement. Picture of Mark Twain's
bust has the feature of the artist's name on the
shoulder, the picture is produced by the Heliotype
Printing Company.
2 fly leaves at end, one of whichis inserted.
Printed by J.J. Little & Co.
Marbled lining-papers different from copy described in
Johnson.
Original half-morocco binding.
Laid in: Original letter by Miss Virginia Warren, secretary
to Mr. Hogan of Hogan & Hartson, about the problems
concerning the first editions of Huckleberry Finn.
Letter is directed to Mr. Dayton, dated Washington,
January 22, 1942.--A Supplement to "A bibliography of
Mark Twain" [by] Whitman Bennett and Jacob Blanck] New
York: Privately printed, 1939, about the problems
connected with the illus. on p. 283.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 43.
Call Number: 817 C591h6a
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's comrade) :
Scene: the Mississippi Valley. Time: forty to fifty
years ago / by Mark Twain [pseud.] with one hundred and
seventy-four illustrations.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York : C. L. Webster and Co. [c1884], 1885 printing.
Description: 366 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes: First edition, earliest state: p.13, illustration on p.87
listed as on p.87 listed as on p.88; "was" for "saw" on
p.57 line 23; p.143, first word is "Co" instead "Col."
and b in "body", line 7, is broken; p.155, second 5 of
page number is of different font; p.161, figure 11
denoting signature is missing; p. 283 tipped in; p. 319,
the word "been" on last line is gouged. Picture of Mark
Twain's bust without the name of the sculptor; it shows
a cloth covered table. Picture is produced by the
Heliotype Printing Company.
Printed by J.J. Little & Co.
Off-white lining-papers. One fly leaf at end.
Bound in original blue cloth, identical with copy described
by Johnson.
A signed pen and ink drawing by the illustrator of the
book, E.W. Kemble, but not one of the Huckleberry Finn
illustrations, is laid in.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p.43.
Call Number: 817 C591h6b
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's comrade) :
Scene: The Mississippi Valley. Time: For to fifty years
ago. By Mark Twain, with one hundred and seventy-four
illustrations.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, C. L. Webster and Company, 1885.
Description: 366 p. front., illus. 22 cm.
Notes: First edition, early state: p.13, illustration on p. 87
listed as on p. 88; "was" for "saw" on p. 57, line 23;
p. 143, first word is "Co" instead of "Col." and "b" in
"body", line 7, is broken; the second 5, folio of p.
155, is missing; p. 161, figure 11 denoting signatue is
missing; p. 319, the word "been" on last line is gouged.
Page 283 tipped in. Picture of Mark Twain's bust without
the name of the sculptor; shows a cloth covered table.
The picture is produced by the Heliotype Printing
Company.
One fly leaf at end.
Printed by J.J. Little & Co.
Off-white lining-papers.
Bound in original green cloth; identical with copy
described by Johnson.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 43.
Call Number: 817 C591h6c
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's comrade) :
Scene: The Mississippi Valley. Time: Forty to fifty
years ago, by Mark Twain [pseud.] with one hundred and
seventy-four illustrations.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, C. L. Webster and company, 1885.
Description: 366 p. front., illus. 22 cm.
Notes: First edition, earliest state: p. 13, illustration on p. 87
listed as on p.88; "was" for "saw" on p. 57, line 23; p.
143, first word is "Co" instead of "Col." and "b" in
"body", line 7, is borken; the second 5, folio of p.
155, is missing; p. 161, figure 11 denoting signatue is
missing p. 319, the word "been" on last line is gouged.
Page 283 tipped in with the re-engraved illustration.
Picture of Mark Twain's bust has the feature of the
artist's name on the shoulder, the picture is produced
by the Heliotype Printing Company.
One fly leaf at end.
Printed by J.J. Little & Co.
Lining-papers marbled.
Original half-morocco binding.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 43.
Call Number: 817 C591h6d
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's comrade).
Scene: The Mississippi Valley. Tiem: Forty to fifty
years ago, by Mark Twain. With one hundred and
seventy-four illustrations.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, Charles L. Webster and co., 1885, c1884.
Description: 366 p. fronts. (port. pl.), illus. 22 cm.
Notes: First edition, early state: p. 13, illustration on p. 87
listed as on p. 88; "was" for "saw" on p. 57 line 23; p.
143, first word is "Co" instead "Col." and b in "body",
line 7, is broken; p. 155, second 5 of page number is of
different font; p.161, figure 11 denoting signature is
missing; p. 283 tipped in; p. 319, the word "been" on
last line is gouged. The name of the sculptor does not
appear on the picture of Mark Twain's bust; the table
appears slightly. The bust port. is by the Heliotype
Printing Co.
One fly leaf at end.
Printed by J.J. Little & Co.
Off-white lining-papers.
Bound in original green cloth, identical with the copy
described by Johnson.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 43.
Call Number: 817 C591h6e
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: The adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's comrade)
Scene: The Mississippi Valley. Time: Forty to fifty
years ago. By Mark Twain [pseud.] With one hundred and
seventy-four illustrations.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885[c1884]
Description: 366 p., 1l. illus., port., 22 cm.
Notes: First edition, later issue: illustration on p. 87 correctly
listed; p. 57, line 23 "saw", not "was"; on p. 155,
final "5" of page number is present, but out of line and
of a different font; p. 283 bound in the signature; on
p. 143 "b" of "body", line 7, has been replaced and is
slightly out of line; first word on p. 143 "Col" is
complete with "l". Figure 11 denoting signature is
missing. Picture of Mark Twain's bust shows name of
sculptor, Karl Gerhardt, no table is visible. The
picture is produced by Photo-Gravure Co., N.Y.
Fly leaf at beginning, missing; 2 fly leaves at end, one of
which is inserted.
Printed by J.J. Little & Co.
Off-white lining-papers.
Bound in original green cloth.
Bookplate of Edward Stuck.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 43.
Call Number: 817 C591h6f
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's comrade) :
Scene: The Mississippi Valley. Time: forty to fifty
years ago, / by Mark Twain [i.e. S.L. Clemens] with one
hundred and seventy-four illustrations.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York : Charles L. Webster and co., 1885, c1884.
Description: 366 p. : ill., port. ; 22 cm.
Notes: First edition, early state: p. 13, illustration on p. 87
listed as on p. 88; "was" for "saw" on p. 57, line 23;
p. 143, first word is "Co" instead of "Col." and "b" in
"body", line 7, is broken; p. 155, second 5 of page
number is of a different font; p. 161, figure 11
denoting signature is missing; p. 319, the word "been"
on last line is perfect. Page 283 bound within the
signature and showing illustration before defacement.
Picture of Mark Twain's bust, has the artist's name on
the shoulder, the picture is produced by the Heliotpe
Printing Co.
2 fly leaves at end, one of which is inserted.
Printed by J.J. Little & Co.
Off-white lining-papers.
Bound in original sheep.
Autograph: "Presented to C.L. Scott, 1895, by his friend
Edward Mills.-E. Mills, February 27th, 1885.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 43.
Call Number: 817 C591h6g
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: How to tell a story : and other essays / by Mark Twain
[psued.]
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers, 1897.
Description: 233 p. : 19.5 cm.
Notes: First edition, first issue.
"Ciper" instead of cipher appears on p. l87, line 16.
Advertisements, 2 pages, at end.
Bound in original red cloth.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 64.
Table of Contents: How to tell a story.
In defence of Harriet Shelley.
Fenimore Cooper's literary offences.
Travelling with a reformer.
Private history of the "Jumping frog" story.
Mental telegraphy again.
What Paul Bourget thinks of us.
A little note to M. Paul Bourget.
Call Number: 817 C591ho
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: A horse's tale, by Mark Twain, illustrated by Lucius
Hitchcock.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York and London, Harper & Brothers, 1907.
Description: viii, 152 p., 1l. plates. 20.7 cm.
Notes: First American edition in book form.
"Copyright, 1906."
Bound in red cloth with picture on cover.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 89.
Call Number: 817 C591ht
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Author: Adams, Lucille.
Other Author(s): Buffalo. Public library.
Title: Huckleberry Finn; a descriptive bibliography of the
Huckleberry Finn collection at the Buffalo public
library, compiled by Lucille Adams.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Publisher: Buffalo, Buffalo Public Library, 1950.
Description: 39 p. illus. 22 cm.
Notes: On cover: A bibliography of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's
comrade) by Mark Twain. Illustrated.
Call Number: 817 C591hZa
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Author: Blanck, Jacob, 1906-1974.
Other Author(s): Johnson, Merle De Vore, 1874-1935.
Title: A supplement to "A bibliography of Mark Twain".
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 --Bibliography.
Publisher: New York : [s.n.], 1939.
Description: [4] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes: "Privately printed."
Call Number: 817 C591hZb
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: The innocents abroad; or, The new Pilgrim's progress; being
some account of the steamship Quaker City's pleasure
excursion to Europe and the Holy Land; with descriptions
of countries, nations, incidents and adventures, as they
appeared to the author. With two hundred and thirty-four
illustrations, by Mark Twain, (Samuel L. Clemens.) /
(Issued by subscription only, and not for sale in the
book-stores. Residents of any state desiring a copy
should address the publishers, and an agent will call
upon them)
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., American Publishing Company; Newark, N.J.,
Bliss & Co.; Toledo, Ohio, R.W. Bliss & Co. [etc.] 1869.
Description: [68 l.] illus. 22.4 cm.
Notes: Salesman's dummy, made up of title page, various pages,
leafof advertisement, full page illustrations, and the
leaf of "Conditions," followed by leaves to enter names
of subscribers, their addresses, and types of binding.
The names of subscribers have been written in, by the
subscribers on nine pages. Contains samples of bindings
on inside covers.
Bound in original black cloth.
Dayton, p. 59.
Call Number: 817 C591i3
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: The innocents abroad, or the new pilgrims' progress; being
some account of the steamship quaker city's pleasure
excursion to Europe and the Holy Land; with descriptions
of countries, nations, incidents and adventures, as the
appeared to the author. With two hundred and thirty-four
illustrations, by Mark Twain [pseud.] (Issued by
subscription only, and not for sale in the book-stores.
Residents of any state desiring a copy should address
the publishers and an agent will calll upon them)
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., American Publishing Company; Newark, N.J.,
R.W. Bliss & Co., etc. 1869.
Description: 6 p. l., vii-xviii [19]-651 [1] p., 5l. 2 fronts., plates,
illus. 22.5 cm.
Notes: First edition, first issue: Lacks numerals for page
references at p. xvii and xviii and the word
"Conclusion" at foot of p. xviii. No. illus. on p. 129.
On p. 643 chapter heading reads "XLI" instead of "LXI".
Includes advertising matter, not included in paging.
Bound in black cloth, stamped in gold.
Johnson, Merle de Vore. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, 1935, p. 9.
Call Number: 817 C591ia
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: The innocents abroad, or, The new pilgrims' progress ;
being some account of the steamship Quaker City's
pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land : with
descriptions of countries, nations, incidents, and
adventures, as they appeared to the author : with two
hundred and thirty-four illustrations/ by Mark Twain
(Samuel L. Clemens)/ (Issued by subscription only, and
not for sale in the book-stores. Reseidents of any state
desiring a copy should address the publishers, and an
agent will call upon them)
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: San Francisco, Cal. : H.H. Bancroft ; Hartford, Conn. :
American Pub. Co., 1869.
Description: xviii, [19]-651 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22.2 cm.
Notes: First edition, second issue: Numerals for page references
at p. xvii and xviii, the word "Conclusion" at foot of
p. xviii and illus. on p. 129. On p. 643 chapter heading
reads "LXI".
Includes advertising matter, not included in paging.
Bound in black cloth, stamped in gold and blind.
Johnson, Merle de Vore. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, 1935, p. 9. Dayton, p. 59.
Call Number: 817 C591ib
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Is Shakespeare dead? From my autobiography [by] Mark Twain
[pseud.]
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Authorship.
Publisher: New York, London, Harper & Brothers, 1909.
Description: 2 p. l., 149, [1] p. double front. 22 cm.
Notes: First edition, first issue.
Error on p. 55, line 5: epuipped for equipped.
Bound in vertically ribbed green cloth with gold stamping.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliograhy of the works of Mark Twain,
p. 90-91.
Call Number: 817 C591isa
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Is Shakespeare dead? From my autobiography [by] Mark Twain
[pseud.]
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1909.
Description: 2 p. l., 149, [1] p., double front. 21.5 cm.
Notes: First edition, first issue, lacking the publisher's
inserted leaf after the copyright notice referring to
George G. Greenwood.
Rubber stamp "Printed in U.S.A." on verso of title page
indicating the edition for the English trade. After the
final leaf of text there is inserted a leaf of
advertisements for "The Shakespeare proble restated", by
George G. Greenwood and "In re Shakespeare problem", by
George G. Greenwood.
Error on p. 55. line 5: epuipped for equipped.
Bound in vertically ribbed green cloth with gold stamping.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 90-91.
Call Number: 817 C591isb
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Other Author(s): Webb, Charles Henry, 1834-1905.
Title: The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County, and other
sketches. By Mark Twain [pseud.] Edited by John Paul
[pseud.]
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, C.H. Webb, 1867.
Description: 198 p. 17.5 cm.
Notes: First edition, first issue: the type unbroken on p. 198,
last line in numeral on p. 21, and in last word on p.
66. Yellow leaf of publisher's advertisements opposite
the title page.
Bound in original blue cloth.
Autograph of Chrystina Hedges, Newark, N.J. on blank leaf
at end.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, 1935, p. 3.
Call Number: 817 C591j
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: The jumping frog, in English, then in French, then clawed
back into a civilized language once more by patient,
unremunerated toil, by Mark Twain [pseud.] illustrated
by F. Strothman.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, London, Harper & Brothers, 1903.
Description: 2 p. l., 65, [1] p. front., 11 pl. 21 cm.
Notes: First separate edition.
Imperfect: plate facing p.4 wanting.
Bound in original red cloth.
Duschnes, P.C. Catalogue no. 49 [n.d.] no. 55.
Call Number: 817 C591j2
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: King Leopold's soliloquy; a defense of his Congo rule, by
Mark Twain [pseud.]
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Léopold 1835-1909.
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Publisher: Boston, Mass., The P.R. Warren Co., 1905.
Description: 2 p. l., 3-49, [1] p. front., illus., plates. 18.7 cm.
Notes: First edition, first state, issued in green printed
wrappers. First page of text is numbered 3.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 81.
Call Number: 817 C591k
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Mark Twain's library of humor. Illustrated by E. W. Kemble.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): American wit and humor.
Publisher: New York, C. L. Webster, 1888.
Description: xxiv, 707 p. illus. 24 cm.
Notes: First edition, first issue: Index not arranged
alphabetically, and "Warm hair", page 8, bears the
signature of Mark Twain, omitted in later issues.
Contains "Compiler's apology."
Bound in brown cloth.
Publishers' and booksellers' protective Assn. stamp, no.
5021 pasted on back fly leaf.
Reissued by Harpers, 1906, in three volumes entitled: Men
and things, Women and things, and little nonsense.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 127.
Call Number: 817 C591l2
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Life on the Mississippi, by Mark Twain [pseud.] With more
than 300 illustrations. <Sold by subscription only>
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Mississippi River--Description and travel.
Mississippi River Valley--Social life and customs.
Publisher: Boston, J. R. Osgood, 1883[c1874,1875,1883]
Description: 624 p. incl. front., illus., plates. 23 cm.
Notes: Title vignette.
First issue of the American edition, having an illustration
on p. 441, showing Mark Twain in flames, which was
omitted, at the request of Mrs. Clemens, in further
printings of same t. p. date. Cf. Merle Johnson. A
bibliography of the work of Mark Twain, 1910, p. 57.
Bound in original brown twilled cloth.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 41-43.
Call Number: 817 C591l2a
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Life on the Mississippi, by Mark Twain [pseud.] With more
than 300 illustrations. <Sold by subscription only.>
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Mississippi River--Description and travel.
Mississippi River Valley--Social life and customs.
Publisher: Boston, J. R. Osgood, 1883.
Description: 624 p. front., illus., plates. 23 cm.
Notes: Title vignette.
First American edition, 2nd issue.
The first copies contained an illustration, p. 441, showing
Mark Twain in flames, which was omitted, at the request
of Mrs. Clemens, in further printings of same t.-p.
date. cf. Merle Johnson, A bibliography of the work of
Mark Twain, 1910, p. 57. In the present issue the
illustration is omitted. Illus. on p. 443 captioned "St.
Charles Hotel."
Bound in original cloth.
Bookplate and autograph of Geo. F. Sinclair.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 41-43.
Call Number: 817 C591l2b
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Life on the Mississippi, by Mark Twain [pseud.] ... With
over 300 illustrations.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Mississippi River--Description and travel.
Mississippi River Valley--Social life and customs.
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus, 1883.
Description: xxv, 561 p. incl. front., illus., pl. 19 cm.
Notes: Printed May 12, 1883.
First English edition.
Advertisements, 32 p., dated March, 1883, at end.
Bound in red cloth with figured end papers.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 43.
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: The suppressed chapter of "Life on the Mississippi".
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Mississippi--Social conditions.
Publisher: [New York, Privately printed, ca.1910]
Description: [4] p. 21.5 cm.
Notes: Caption title.
"Two hundred and fifty copies of the first printing. This
is no. 215."
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain. 1935. p. 43.
Call Number: 817 C591l4
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Mark Twain's letter to the California pioneers.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: Oakland, Cal., Dewitt & Snelling, 1911.
Description: 2 p. l., [7]-13, [1] p., 1 l. 19 cm.
Notes: First edition, first issue: copyright notice intact on
verso of title page.
On cover: Elmira, N.Y., 1869.
"This edition is limited to 750 copies." This copy not
numbered.
Bound in tan papers.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain. 1935. p. 93.
Call Number: 817 C591lc
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Other Author(s): Sacramento union, Sacramento, Calif.
Title: Letters from Honolulu, written for the Sacramento union by
Mark Twain [pseud.] Introduction by John W. Vandercook.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Hornet (Clipper-ship)
Shipwrecks.
Sugar trade--Hawaii.
Whaling.
Publisher: Honolulu, T. Nickerson, [c1939.]
Description: xv, 101 p., 1 l. 21 cm.
Notes: "This edition is limited to one thousand copies."
"Printed for the first time between covers." Introduction.
Table of Contents: Letters from Honolulu. I. The burning of the clipper ship
Hornet. II. The sugar industry. III. The whaling trade.
IV. The importance of the Hawaiian trade.
Excerpts from the diaries of Captain Mitchell and the
Ferguson brothers.
Mark Twain's concluding remarks, reprinted from Harper's
new monthly magazine, December, 1866.
Call Number: 817 C591le
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Other Author(s): Branch, Edgar Marquess, 1913-
Mark Twain Association of America.
Title: Muscatine journal and news-tribune.
Mark Twain's letters in the Muscatine journal, edited with
an introduction by Edgar M. Branch ...
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 --Correspondence.
Publisher: Chicago, The Mark Twain Association of America, 1942.
Description: 28 p. front. (port.) pl. 22 cm.
Notes: "An edition consisting of 300 numbered copies, of which
this is copy no. 51."
Call Number: 817 C591lm
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Other Author(s): Dane, G. Ezra (George Ezra), 1904-1941.
Sacramento union, Sacramento, Calif.
Grabhorn Press.
Title: Letters from the Sandwich Islands, written for the
Sacramento union by Mark Twain [pseud.] Introduction &
conclusion by G. Ezra Dane, illustrations by Dorothy
Grover.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Hawaii--Description and travel.
Hawaii--Social life and customs.
Publisher: San Francisco, The Grabhorn Press, 1937.
Description: 1st ed.
3 p. l., [v]-xii p., 1 l., 224 p., 1 l. col. illus. 25 cm.
Series: Rare Americana, 3d ser., no. 4
Notes: Illustrated t.-p. in color.
Bound in paper covered boards with cloth spine.
"Number four of the third series of Rare Americana printed
in an edition of five hundred and fifty copies."
Call Number: 817 C591ls
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Other Author(s): Dane, George Ezra.
Sacramento union, Sacramento, Calif.
Title: Letters from the Sandwich Islands, written for the
Sacramento union by Mark Twain [pseud.] Introduction &
conclusion by G. Ezra Dane, illustrations by Dorothy
Grover.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Hawaii--Description and travel.
Hawaii--Social life and customs.
Publisher: Stanford University, Calif., Stanford university press;
London, H. Milford, Oxford university press [c1938]
Description: 3 p. l., [v]-xii p., 1 l., 224 p. illus.
Notes: Illustrated t.p.
Call Number: 817 C591ls2
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Other Author(s): De Voto, Bernard Augustine, 1897-1955.
Title: Mark Twain in eruption; hitherto unpublished pages about
men and events, by Mark Twain [pseud.] edited and with
an introduction by Bernard DeVoto.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York and London, Harper & brothers [c1940]
Description: xxviii p., 1 l., 402 p. front. [facsim.] 22 cm.
Notes: "First edition K-P" on verso of title page.
"When Albert Bigelow Paine published his two-volume edition
of Mark Twain's Autobiography in 1924, he used something
less than half of the typescript in which everything
that Mark wanted in his memoirs had been brought
together. This book uses about half of the remainder. It
has been selected, rearranged, and to some extent
edited."-Introd.
Call Number: 817 C591m
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: The man that corrupted Hadleyburg and other stories and
essays / by Mark Twain.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York : Harper & Bros., 1900.
Description: 398 p., [11] leaves of plates : ill., 1 facsim., ports. ;
21 cm.
Notes: First edition, first issue, printed on thicker paper than
later issues, measures 1 3/8 inches in thickness.
Page 154, line 4 the words "and requires" run together.
Advertisements, 2 pages, at end.
Bound in red cloth with the M T and corn design monogram
stamped in gold on front cover.
Autograph: H.C. Munro on front fly leaf.
Stamp: Lavender's loan library on inside covers.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 70.
Table of Contents: The man that corrupted Hadleyburg.
My début as a literary person.
From the "London times" of 1904.
At the appetitecure.
My first lie, and how I got out of it.
Is he living or is he dead?
The Esquimau maiden's romance.
How to tell a story.
About play-acting.
Concerning the Jews.
Stirring times in Austria.
The Austrian Edison keeping school again.
Travelling with a reformer.
Private history of the "Jumping frog" story.
My boyhood dreams.
Call Number: 817 C591ma
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Mark Twain, able yachtsman, interviews himself on Why
Lipton failed to lift the cup.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yachting--United States.
Publisher: [n.p., Priv. print., 1920]
Description: 2 p. l., 9-31 p. incl. pl., port. front. 22 cm.
Notes: Cover title: Mark interviews himself.
"First edition of 109 copies, of which this is number 17."
Cover and blank sides of leaves included in paging.
Appeared originally in the New York Herald, Aug. 30, 1903
ad "The yacht races."
Bound in printed wrappers; uncut.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain. 1935. p. 97.
Call Number: 817 C591mar
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: My début as a literary person, with other essays and
stories/ By Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens).
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : American Publishing Co., 1903.
Description: Underwood ed.
viii, [2], 4-367 p. : ill. ; 22.5 cm.
Series: Writings of Mark Twain ; v. 23
Notes: Mistaken as a first edition, but one of the cheaper
editions printed from the same plates as v.23 of the
Autograph edition. Shows type wear, for example on p.
313. No insertedportrait of Mark Twain.
Bound in blue cloth.
Table of Contents: My début as a literary person
The Esquimau maiden's romance
The man who corrupted Hadleyburg
My first lie and how I got out of it
The belated Russian passport
Two little tales
About play acting
Diplomatic pay and clothes
Is he living or is he dead
My boyhood dreams
The Austrian Edison keeping school again
Extracts from Adam's diary
The death disk
A double-barreled detective story.
Call Number: 817 C591md
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Merry tales, by Mark Twain [pseud.]
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, C.L. Webster & co., 1892.
Description: vi p., 1 l., 9-209 p. 19 cm.
Series: Fiction, fact, and fancy series
Notes: First edition: first issued; figured end-papers and without
frontispiece of Mark Twain.
Bound in original olive green twilled cloth.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 52.
Table of Contents: The private history of a campaign that failed.
The invalid's story.
Luck.
The captain's story.
A curious experience.
Mrs. McWilliams and the lightning.
Meisterschaft.
Call Number: 817 C591me
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: The £1,000,000 bank-note, and other new stories, by Mark
Twain [pseud.]
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, C.L. Webster & company, 1893.
Description: 1st ed.
3 p. l., 9-260 p. front. 20 cm.
Notes: Publisher's advertisements, 9 pages, at end.
Bound in light brown cloth, stamped in gold, black and
brown.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 55-56.
Table of Contents: The £1,000,000 bank-note.
Mental telegraphy.
A cure for the blues.
Enemy conquered.
About all kinds of ships.
Playing courier.
The German Chicago.
A petition to the Queen of England.
A majestic literary fossil.
Call Number: 817 C591mi
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: More tramps abroad; by Mark Twain [pseud.]
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus, 1897.
Description: 4 p.l. [1]-486p., 1l. [1]-32 p. facsim. 19.5 cm.
Notes: First English edition.
Advertisements, 32 paged dated: Sept. 1897, at end.
Published previously under title: Following the equator.
Bound in maroon cloth.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 66.
Call Number: 817 C591mo
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: The mysterious stranger; a romance by Mark Twain [pseud.]
with illustrations by N.C. Wyeth.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York and London, Harper & brothers [1916]
Description: 150 p. col. front., col. plates. 24 cm.
Notes: First edition: "Published October, 1916 K-Q" on verso of
title page.
Bound in black cloth with picture mounted on cover.
Potter, J.K. Samuel L. Clemens, first editions and values,
p. 74.
Call Number: 817 C591ms
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: The mysterious stranger, and other stories, by Mark Twain
[pseud.]
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, London, Harper & brothers, 1922.
Description: 3 p. l., 3-323, [1] p. front. 20 cm.
Notes: "First edition, D-W."
Publisher's advertisement, 4 pages, at end.
First editions of the following pieces in book form: My
platonic sweetheart, A fable, Hunting the decietful
turkey.--Cf. Johnson, p. 80.
Bound in original red cloth; circular M T corn monogram on
front cover.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark Tain,
p. 99.
Table of Contents: The mysterious stranger.
A horse's tale.
Extract from Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven.
A fable.
My platonic sweetheart.
Hunting the deceitful turkey.
The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm.
Call Number: 817 C591ms2
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Other Author(s): Harnsberger, Caroline Thomas, 1902-
Title: Mark Twain at your fingertips, edited by Caroline Thomas
Harnsberger.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, Beechhurst Press [1948]
Description: xiv, 559 p. port. 23 cm.
Notes: "A Cloud, inc., publication."
"Quotations from ... [Mark Twain's] works alphabetically
arranged by subject matter."--Dust jacket.
Bibliography: p. [531]-535.
Call Number: 817 C591mt
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Mark Twain on simplified spelling : a speech at the annual
dinner of the Associated Press, held in New York,
September 19, 1906 : revised expressly for the
Simplified Spelling Board.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Spelling reform.
Publisher: New York : Simplified Spelling Board, [1906]
Description: 4 p. ; 22 cm.
Series: Circular - Simplified Spelling Board ; no. 9, Nov. 10, 1906
Notes: First edition, later issue: blurred type on p.1, line 3.
Caption title.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain. 1935. p. 134.
Call Number: 817 C591mts
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Author: Fonseca, José da, 1788-1866.
Other Author(s): Carolino, Pedro.
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: The new guide of the conversation in Portuguese and English
... by Pedro Carolino.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Portuguese language--Conversation and phrase books.
Errors and blunders, Literary.
Publisher: Boston, J.R. Osgood and Company, 1883.
Description: 1st American ed., reprinted verbatim et literatim, with an
introduction by Mark Twain [pseud.]
xiv, 182 p. 15 cm.
Notes: Bound in brown cloth.
Bookplate of George Abbot James.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 126.
Call Number: 817 C591n
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Old times on the Mississippi, by Mark Twain, author of
"Innocents Abroad," "Roughing it," etc., etc.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Mississippi River--Description and travel.
Mississippi River Valley--Social life and customs.
Publisher: Toronto, Belford Brothers Publishers, 1876.
Notes: First edition, first state: No mention of "Tom Sawyer" on
the title page; no advertisement for "Tom Sawyer" on
verso of half-title.
Advertisements, 3 pages, at end.
Cover title is set in Old English.
Bound in original lavendar.
Autograph: Carl V. Davis, 210 Union St., Kingston, Ont.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 42.
Call Number: 817 C591oa
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Old times on the Mississippi / by Mark Twain, author of
"Tom Sawyer," "Innocents Aborad," &c., &c.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Mississippi River--Description and travel.
Mississippi River Valley--Social life and customs.
Publisher: Toronto : Belford Brothers, 1876.
Description: 157 p. ; 18.5 cm.
Notes: First edition, second state: mentions "Tom Sawyer" on title
page, has advertisement for "Tom Sawyer" on verso of
half-title.
Advertisements, 3 pages, at end.
Cover title is set in Old English.
Bound in original maroon cloth.
Autograph: Dewitt Miller, Forest-Glen, Maryland.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 42.
Call Number: 817 C591ob
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: The Panama Railroad.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, Chips, 1895.
Description: p. [3-4] 16 cm.
Notes: First printing.
Caption title.
Uncut.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain. 1935. p. 128.
Call Number: 817 C591pa
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Personal recollections of Joan of Arc. By the Sieur Luis de
Conte [pseud.] (her page and secretary) Freely
translated out of the ancient French into modern English
from the original unpublished manuscript in the national
archives of France, by Jean Franc·ois Alden. Illustrated
from original drawings by F. V. Du Mond ...
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Joan, 1412-1431 --Fiction.
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers, 1896.
Description: xiv p., 1 l., 461 p. incl. front. plates. 20 cm.
Notes: First edition, first issued without dedication.
Mark Twain's name appears only on the cover.
Advertisements, 2 pages at end, list Memoirs of Barros with
last two words being "just ready."--cf. Duschnes,
Catalogue no. 49, p. 9.
Bound in red buckram with gold and silver stamping.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 61.
Call Number: 817 C591pe2
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Personal recollections of Joan of Arc / By the Sieur Louis
de Conte [pseud.] (her page and secretary) ; freely
translated out of the ancient French into modern
English, from the original unpublished manuscript in the
national archives of France, by Jean François Alden ;
edited by Mark Twain ; with 12 illustrations by F. V. Du
Mond.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: London : Chatto & Windus, 1896.
Description: x, [6], 435, [1], 32 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ;
19.4 cm.
Notes: First English edition, late state: 32 pages of
advertisements at end dated Nov. 1896 instead of March
1896.
On cover: Joan of Arc.
Title page in red and black.
Bound in original blue cloth.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, 1935, p. 61.
Call Number: 817 C591pe3
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Punch, brothers, punch! and other sketches. By Mark Twain
[pseud.]
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, Slote, Woodman & Co. [1878]
Description: 140 p. illus. 16 cm.
Notes: First edition, first state: author's name on title page
printed in Roman capitals; 2 blank fly leaves at end;
the printed picture of the scrap book on inside back
cover is small, measuring about 2 by 2 7/8 inches.
Bound in original green cloth.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 31.
Table of Contents: Punch, brothers, punch!
Speech on the weather at the New England society's
seventy-first annual dinner.
Rogers.
Map of Paris (with map)
Random notes of an idle excursion.
Speech at a dinner of the Knights of St. Patrick.
An encounter with an interviewer.
The loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence, etc.
Canvasser's tale.
Call Number: 817 C591pna
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Punch, brothers, punch! and other sketches, by Mark Twain
[pseud.]
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, Slote, Woodman & Co. [c1878]
Description: [1]-140 p., 2l. illus., facsim. 14.9 cm.
Notes: Probably first edition, second state: author's name on
title page printed in facsimile autography.
Advertisements including certificate, 2 leaves, at end.
Bound in red decorative wrappers, the damaged spine
lettered: Mark Twain's Punch, price 25 cents; on back
cover advertisement for Mark Twain's scrap book.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 32.
Call Number: 817 C591pnb
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: The prince and the pauper; a tale for young people of all
ages, by Mark Twain [pseud.] With one hundred and
ninety illustrations.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus, 1881.
Description: [1-xvi] [1]-391[1] [1]-32p. incl. front. illus., facsim. 19
cm.
Notes: First English edition, pub. almost 2 weeks before the
American edition.
Letter to Cromwell in manuscript facsimile and transcript
of same and picture of the great seal, pages [ii-iv]
32 p. of advertisement at end.
Bound in original red cloth.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 39-42.
Call Number: 817 C591pr2
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: The prince and the pauper : a tale for young people of all
ages / by Mark Twain ; with one hundred and ninety-two
illustrations.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: Boston : James R. Osgood and Company, 1882.
Description: 1st American ed.
411 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes: First edition, first state: gilt plate on spine about 3/8"
from the top.
Printed by Franklin press.
Letter to Cromwell in manuscript facsimile and transcript
of same and picture of the great seal, pages [2-4]
Bound in green cloth stamped in gold and black.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 39.
Call Number: 817 C591pr3
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: The prince and the pauper; a tale for young people of all
ages, by Mark Twain [pseud.]
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: Montreal, Dawson Brothers, 1881.
Description: 278 p. 21 cm.
Notes: First Canadian edition.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 41.
Call Number: 817 C591pr4
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Other Author(s): Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: [Pudd'nhead Wilson]
The tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson ; and the comedy, Those
extraordinary twins / by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)
; with marginal ill.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : American Pub. Co., 1894.
Description: [4], 15-432 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., port. 23 cm.
Notes: 1st edition.
Collation of the preliminary leaves includes the protective
tissues of the frontispiece.
Bound in original brown cloth.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 59-61.
Call Number: 817 C591pu2
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: [Pudd'nhead Wilson. 1894]
Pudd'nhead Wilson : a tale / by Mark Twain.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: London : Chatto & Windus, 1894.
Description: ix, 246, 32 p. : ill. ; 19.4 cm.
Notes: Includes a portrait of the author by James Mapes Dodge and
six illustrations by Louis Loeb.
First English edition, preceding the American edition.--Cf.
DAyton p. 71.
Advertisements, 32 pages, at end, dated Sept. 1894.
Error in numbering of page of preliminary matter.
Bound in red cloth.
Potter, J.K. Samuel L. Clemens. First editions and values,
p. 48.
Call Number: 817 C591pu3
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Pudd'nhead Wilson's calendar for 1894.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 --Calendars.
Publisher: [Dawson's Landing, Mo., : Henry Butts, 1893?]
Description: 16 p. : ill., port. ; 7.8 cm.
Notes: First edition, first state: p.5 reads "When angry count a
hundred"; the advertisement on p.15 concludes "It began
in the December Century-the great Christmas number ...";
no critical notices about the early installments of
Pudd'nhead Wilson; full length portrait of Mark Twain on
inside back cover.
Presentation autography on front civer by an unknown hand.
Bound in yellow papers.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain. 1935. p. 56.
Call Number: 817 C591pud
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Queen Victoria's jubilee : the great procession of June 22,
1897, in the Queen's honor, reported both in the light
of history, and as a spectacle, by Mark Twain [pseud.]
Privately printed for private distribution only.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Victoria, 1819-1901.
Publisher: [New York? 190-?]
Description: 1 p. l., 22 p. front., pl. 23 1/2 cm.
Notes: Plate printed on both sides.
"The first printing in book form is limited to 195 copies,
of which this is no. 11."
"Originally contributed to the New York Journal, June 21
and 23, 1897. Date of issue of the book is uncertain,
but at least previous to 1908."-- M. Johnson, Bibl. of
Mark Twain.
Autograph: First edition, Merle Johnson.
Book plate: Ex libris, William Hartmann Woodin on slip case
cover.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 92.
Call Number: 817 C591q
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: The Quaker city Holy Land excursion. An unfinished play /
by Mark Twain [i.e. S. L. Clemens] 1867.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: [s.l.] : Privately printed, 1927.
Description: [22] p. ; 24 cm.
Notes: First edition: "This play is here printed for the first
time from the author's original manuscript. The edition
consists of 200 copies." The greater part of the edition
was destroyed.--Cf. Johnson, M. De V. American first
edition, 1942, p. 114.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of Mark Twain. 1935. p.
106.
Call Number: 817 C591qu
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Rambling notes of an idle excursion, by Mark Twain, author
of "Adventures of Tom Sawyer," "Old Times on the
Mississippi," "Innocents Abroad," etc.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: Toronto, Rose-Belford Publishing Co., MDCCCLXXVIII.
Description: 150 p. 18.7 cm.
Notes: First Canadian edition, probably pirated.--Cf. Dayton.
Imperfect: pages 1-2 wanting.
Bound in green cloth.
Autograph on back fly leaf: Dewitt Miller, Forest-Glen
Maryland.
Potter, J.K. Samuel L. Clemens. First editions and values,
p. 27. Dayton, p. 62.
Table of Contents: An idle excursion.
Facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in
Connecticut.
The loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton.
A true story.
The canvasser's tale.
An eccounter with an interviewer.
Speech on the weather.
Rogers.
Letter read at a dinner of the Knights of St. Patrick.
Call Number: 817 C591ra
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Roughing it, by Mark Twain [pseud.] Fully illustrated by
eminent artists. (Issued by subscription only, and not
for sale in book-stores) (Residents of any state
desiring a copy should address the publishers as below)
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., American Publishing Company, 1872.
Description: xviii, [19]-591, [1] p. fronts., illus., 6 plates. 22.7 cm.
Notes: First edition, first state: p. 242, lines 20 and 21:
premises - said he was occupying his; capital "M" in
Table of contents, first line, p. xi and the letter "y"
in "My", first word of chapter 1, p. 19, are unbroken.
Advertisement for the American publisher on p. [592].
Illus. no. 126 used as a front, and not inserted at p.
235. Illus. no. 92 listed as "Fight at Lake Tahoe".
Illus "Tom Quartz" on p. 440 doubles as "Peter" in Tom
Sawyer.
Bound in original black pebbled cloth with stamping in
gold.
Library copy differs from copy described by Johnson:
different imprint, 4 fly leaves at end, no reprint
notice on title page.
Autograph: E.D. Buffington, Worcestor, Mass.
Call Number: 817 C591roa
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Roughing it, by Mark Twain. (Samuel L. Clemens) Fully
illustrated by eminent artists. (Issued by subscription
only, and not for sale in book-stores.) (Residents of
any state desiring a copy should address the publishers
as below.)
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., American Publishing Company; Chicago, F.
G. Gilman & Co.; [etc., etc.] 1872.
Description: xviii, [19]-591 p. fronts., illus., plates. 22.7 cm.
Notes: First edition, 3d state: p. 242, lines 20 and 21: premises
- said was occupying; capital "M" in Table of contents,
first line, p. xi and the letter "y" in "My", first word
of chapter 1, p. 19, are broken.
Same copy as described by Johnson, but no reprint notice on
title page.
Call Number: 817 C591rob
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Mark Twain's Date 1601 : conversation as it was by the
social fireside in the time of the Tudors, comprising
facsimiles of the original edition and the revised or
West Point edition.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: [s.l.] : Privately printed, 1920.
Description: 8, xi, [7] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes: "This edition is limited to 110 copies of which this is no.
six."
Facsimile reprint of Cleveland edition.
Bound in brown paper.
Bookplate: Ex libris. William Hartmann Woodin on slip case
cover.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 35-37 (About first editions and variants)
Call Number: 817 C591s2
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: The Sandwich Islands by Mark Twain [pseud.]
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, 1920.
Description: 39 p. facsim. 26 cm.
Notes: First edition limited to 30 copies.
Bound in morocco back and cloth sides, heavy pasteboard end
papers, dark blue, 2 fly leaves in front, 10 fly leaves
at end.
"The material ... appeared originally in the New York
Tribune as 'Views of Mark Twain,' January 6, 1873; and
'Concluding views of Mark Twain,' January 9, 1873 ...
Includes the text of Mark Twain's 'Kanakadom' speech as
delivered at Cooper Union, New York, in 1868." Johnson,
p. 99.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 98.
Call Number: 817 C591sa
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Mark Twain's scrap book.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, Daniel Slote, 1878.
Description: 32 l. 27.7 cm.
Notes: First edition.
Title taken from trade mark pasted on inside front cover.
"Registered: April 23rd 1878."
Bound in blue cloth, grey lining-papers.
A self-pasting scrap-book, designed and patented by Mark
Twain. The only copy know to be absolutely unused, with
the leaves blank, as issued, and the only copy to
possess a printed letter, written by Mark Twain to
commend it. The letter is illustrated.--Cf. Dayton p.
62.
Autograph: Presented to Miss Myrtie Crissey, by Fred Erwin
[and others]
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 158.
Call Number: 817 C591sc
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Mark Twain's sketches.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, American News Co. [c1874]
Description: Authorized edition. With illustrations by R. T. Sperry.
32 p. illus. 24 cm.
Notes: First edition, first issue.
Illustrated green paper covers.
Book plates: Woodin, William Hartmann and Whitall, W. Van
R.
First edition of "A memorable midnight experience," and
"Rogers"; first American edition of most of the other
stories. cf. Johnson's Bibl. of Mark Twain.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 22.
Table of Contents: A memorable midnight experience.
The jumping frog.
Rogers.
Breaking it gently.
Back from "Yurrup."
The facts in the case of the great beef contract.
Aurelia's unfortunate young man.
The widow's protest.
Map of Paris.
Property in London.
The undertaker's chat.
Misplaced confidence.
Concerning chambermaids.
Call Number: 817 C591sk
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Sketches, new and old by Mark Twain [pseud.]
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., American Publishing Co., 1893.
Description: 316 p. illus. 21 cm.
Notes: Author's autograph presentation copy: To W.S., 1896 S.L.
Clemens.
Autograph: Jim with Holly's love. Xmas 1898, on front
lining papers.
Advertisement of The adventures of Tom Sawyer, a new and
popular edition, at end.
Bound in yellow decorative cloth with design of the jumping
frog.
Bibl. of American literature, no. 3651.
Call Number: 817 C591skn2
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: [Sketches new and old]
Mark Twain's Sketches, new and old. Now first published in
complete form. Sold only by subscription.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: Hartford and Chicago, The American pub. company, 1875.
Description: [1st ed.]
[8], 17-320 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes: On spine: Sketches old and new.
First issue: The footnotes on p. 119 repeated on p. 120,
and the erroneously printed "From Hospital Days," on p.
299, with the relevant erratum slip tipped in.
Bound in original decorated blue cloth.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 24.
Call Number: 817 C591skna
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: [Sketches new and old]
Mark Twain's sketches, new and old.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : American Pub. Co., 1875.
Description: Now first published in complete form.
320 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes: Cover title: Sketches / by Mark Twain.
Spine title: Sketches old and new / Mark Twain.
First edition, 2nd issue: Lacks the sketch "From hospital
days" and erratum slip at p. 299, and the duplicated
note on p. 120.
Bound in original decorated blue cloth.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 24.
Call Number: 817 C591sknb
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Author: Hoffmann, Heinrich, 1809-1894.
Other Author(s): Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Kredel, Fritz, 1900-1973.
Limited Editions Club.
Title: Slovenly Peter <Der Struwwelpeter> translated into English
jingles from the original German of Dr. Heinrich
Hoffmann by Mark Twain [pseud.] with Dr. Hoffmann's
illustrations adapted from the rare first edition by
Fritz Kredel; now printed, for the first time, for the
members of the Limited Editions Club.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, The Marchbanks Press, 1935.
Description: 2 p. l., 3-34 p. numb. l., 1 l. col. illus. 32 cm.
Notes: Printed on one side of leaf on opposite pages.
"1500 copies ... This is copy number 291."
Bound in cloth printed with vignettes.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 109.
Call Number: 817 C591sl
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Mark Twain's speeches, with an introduction by William Dean
Howells.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York and London, Harper 1910.
Description: 1st ed.
v, [3] p., 2 l., 433p. front. (port.) 21cm.
Notes: The "R" in "Rock" on page 24, line 17 lacking.
Bound in original red cloth, with the corn and M T
monograpm stamped in gold on front cover, repeated on
back, blind stamped.
Stamp of Preston H. Weil on inside front cover.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 112.
Call Number: 817 C591sp
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Mark Twain's speeches, with an introduction by Albert
Bigelow Paine, and an appreciation by William Dean
Howells.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York London, Harper & brothers [c1923]
Description: xv, [1] p., 1 l., 396 p. front. (port.) 21 cm.
Notes: "First edition, D-X."
Contains material not published in the 1910 edition.
Bound in red cloth with the corn and M T monogram on front
cover.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 113.
Call Number: 817 C591sp2
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: The stolen white elephant, etc. By Mark Twain [pseud.]
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: Boston, James R. Osgood and Company, 1882.
Description: [1]-306 [1]-12 p., 1l. 16.7 cm.
Notes: First American edition.
Advertisements at end dated Spring, 1882.
Original light brown decorated cloth.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 38-39.
Call Number: 817 C591st2
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: The adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., American Pub. Co., 1876.
Description: xvi, 274 p. illus. 22.2 cm.
Notes: First edition, first state: 4 pages of publisher's
advertisements at end; 3 blank fly leaves, laid paper,
supplied, at beginning and end. Versos of half title and
preface blank. "The" in half title 1/16 inch high. Last
line on first page of text has a perfect typeline. The
body of the book is printed on calendered paper.
Bound in original blue decorated cloth, back cover having
horizontal decorated rule extending from hinge and
bleeding off cover.
"Invaluable source of informatiopn relative to the
publication of Tom Sawyer," typed sheet laid in.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 27.
Call Number: 817 C591t2a
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: The adventures of Tom Sawyer / by Mark Twain.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : American Pub. Co., 1876.
Description: xvi, 274 p. : ill. ; 22.2 cm.
Notes: First edition, later state: Frontispiece printed on verso
of half-title; part of Table of Contents printed on
verso of preface. "The"in half-title measures 1/16 inch.
Pagination is faulty due to rearrangementof the
half-title. Lacks blank leaves at beginning and end.
Printed on heavier paper. Four pages of publisher's
advertisements at end. Final line of p. 17, the words
"furniture to" are damaged; p. 202, last paragraph, type
is badly broken.
Bound in original blue decorated cloth, back cover having
horizontal decorated rule extending from hinge and
bleeding off cover.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 27-30.
Call Number: 817 C591t2b
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: [Adventures of Tom Sawyer. 1876.]
The adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain [pseud.]
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus, 1876.
Description: 3 p. l., 341 p., 1 l. 20 cm.
Notes: First English edition.
Advertisement on verso of first preliminary leaf.
Bound in red cloth.
Bookplate of L.A. Harrison.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 29.
Call Number: 817 C591t3
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: The adventures of Tom Sawyer / by Mark Twain [i. e. S. L.
Clemens]
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: Toronto : Belford Brothers, 1876.
Description: [6], 341, [5] p. ; 19 cm.
Notes: Probably first Canadian edition.--cf. Johnson, M. De V. A
bibliography of Mark Twain, p. 29.
Advertisements, 4 pages, at end.
Bound in purple pebbled grain cloth.
Call Number: 817 C591t4
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Other Author(s): De Voto, Bernard Augustine, 1897-1955.
Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975.
Title: The adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain [pseud.] The
text edited and with an introduction by Bernard DeVoto;
with a prologue, "Boy's manuscript," printed for the
first time; illustrated with drawings by Thomas Hart
Benton.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: Cambridge [Mass.] Printed for the membersof the Limited
editions club at the University Press, 1939.
Description: xxx, 340 p. illus., facsims. 24.5 cm.
Notes: The "Boy's manuscript" (p. 1-22) is the earliest known use
of the materials of "The adventures of Tom Sawyer". The
manuscript was probably written in 1870 or 1871. cf.
p.1.
"This edition ... consists of fifteen hundred copies. This
is copy number 1368 and its is signed by the
illustrator."
Call Number: 817 C591t5
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Other Author(s): Allen, Thomas B. (Thomas Burt), 1928-
Title: The adventures of Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain [i.e. S. L.
Clemens] ; illustrated by Tom Allen.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: Franklin Center, Pa. : Franklin Library, 1977.
Description: 264 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Series: The 100 greatest masterpieces of American literature
Notes: "Notes from the editors" (22 p.) in pocket.
"A limited edition."
Call Number: 817 C591t7
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: A tramp abroad / by Mark Twain, author of The Innocents
Aborad' The New Pilgrim's Progress' etc..
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Europe--Description and travel.
Publisher: London : Chatto & Windus, 1880.
Description: 1st ed.
2 v. ; 19 cm.
Notes: Volume 1: 328 p.; v.2: 304, 32 p.
Includes music: Lorelei, v.1, p. 132-133.
Error in paging: v.1, p. 79 erroneously paged 76.
Advertisements, 32 pages dated April 1880, at end of volume
2.
Bound in brown decorated cloth.
Schwartz, J. 1100 obscure points, p. 88.
Call Number: 817 C591ta2
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: A tramp abroad ... Illustrated by W. Fr. Brown, True
Williams, B Day and other artists. With also three or
four pictures made by the author of this book without
outside hels, in all three hundred and fourteen
illustrations, by Mark Twain [pseud.]
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus, 1880.
Description: xxiii, 564, 32 p. front., illus., plates. 20 cm.
Notes: First illustrated English edition.
Advertisements, 32 pages, dated 1880 at end.
Bound in red decorated cloth.
Bookplate: George Maule Allen.
Potter, J.K. Samuel L. Clemens.First editions and values,
p. 30.
Call Number: 817 C591ta3
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: A tramp abroad ... Illustrated by W. Fr. Brown, True
Williams, B. Day and other artists, with also three or
four pictures made by the author of this book, without
outside help, by Mark Twain [pseud.]
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: Toronto, Slemin & Higgins, 1880.
Description: [1]-410 p., 4 l. 2 fronts. (1 port.) illus. 18 cm.
Notes: Frontispiece is of the first state, with caption: Moses,
but evidently not the first Canadian edition.--Cf.
Duschnes Catalog, no. 30, p. 10.
Page 344 erroneously numbered 3.
Autograph: Herbert J. McDonald Brockville, Canada, May
1880.
Call Number: 817 C591ta4
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: A tramp abroad; illustrated by W. Fr. Brown, True Williams,
B. Day and other artists. With also three or four
pictures made by the author of this book, without
outside help; in all three hundred and twenty-eight
illustrations. By Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens).
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Europe--Description and travel.
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus, 1880.
Description: xvi, 631 p incl. illus., plates. front (port.) plates. 23
cm.
Notes: First edition, first state: frontispiece captioned "Moses";
underlying line on sleeve in frontispiece portrait in
almost vertical posititon.
Bound in original black cloth.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 33-35.
Call Number: 817 C591taa
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Other Author(s): Arthur S. Dayton Collection.
Title: The $30,000 bequest and other stories, by Mark Twain
[pseud.]
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1906.
Description: [i]-iv p., 2l. [1]-522 p., 1l. front. (port.), illus.,
plates. 19.5 cm.
Notes: First edition, first state: without advertisements on verso
of title page.
Includes 38 pieces, 16 of which are here first collected in
book form.
Bound in red cloth with gold stamping.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 85.
The Arthur S. Dayton Collection.
Call Number: 817 C591tha
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Other Author(s): Arthur S. Dayton Collection.
Title: The $30,000 bequest, and other stories by Mark Twain
[pseud.] ...
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, London, Harper & Brothers, 1906.
Description: iv p., 2 l., 522, [1] p. front. (port.) illus., 7 pl. 21
cm.
Notes: First edition, second state: Advertisements on verso of
titlepage.--Cf. Blanck, J.N. Bibl. of American
literature, 1955. v.2, no. 3492.
Includes 38 pieces, 16 of which are her first collected in
book form.
Bound in red cloth with gold stamping.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 85.
The Arthur S. Dayton Collection.
Call Number: 817 C591thb
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Three aces : Jim Todd's episode in social euchre : a poem
and a denial / by Mark Twain.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: [Westport, Conn.? : s.n. ; 1929]
Description: [8] p. ; 22 cm.
Notes: Cover title.
"Of this poem ... now for the first time published in book
form, there have been printed but 50 copies for friends
of Robin and Marian MacVicars, in their studio at
Westport in Connecticut. Christmas season 1929."
"Originally published in the Buffalo Express, Deeember
[sic] 3, 1870, over the signature, Carl Byng."
Clemens disclaimed authorship of poem.--Cf. p.[6-7]
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, 1935. p. 108.
Call Number: 817 C591thr
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Tom Sawyer abroad, by Huck Finn [pseud.] Ed. by Mark Twain
[pseud.] with illustrations by Dan Beard.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, C.S. Webster & company, 1894.
Description: 219 p. incl. front., plates. 20.5 cm.
Notes: First American edition.
Bound in brownish-grey twilled cloth; cover and spine
decorated with a picture in black and dull orange, after
the illustration on p. 69; lettering on spine in gold.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 58.
Call Number: 817 C591to2
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Other Author(s): Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941.
Title: Tom Sawyer abroad, by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) With
26 illustrations by Dan. Beard.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus, 1894.
Description: viii, 208 incl. front., illus. 20 cm.
Notes: First English edition.
Advertisements, 32 pages, dated Feb. 1894, at end.
Bound in red cloth.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 59.
Call Number: 817 C591to3
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Tom Sawyer abroad. Tom Sawyer, detective, and other
stories, etc., etc.; by Mark Twain [pseud.] ...
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers [1896]
Description: vii, 410 p. front., illus., plates 21 cm.
Notes: First edition.
Advertisements, 2 pages, at end.
Bound in red cloth, with gilt monogram "M.T." on front
cover.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 62.
Call Number: 817 C591to4
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Tom Sawyer : a drama / [S. L. Clemens].
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 --Adaptations.
Publisher: [s.l. : s.n.], 1940.
Description: [4 p.] ; 20 cm.
Notes: "One hundred copies have been printed for the friends of
Jacob and Stella Blanck, holiday season, December
MCMXL."
A synopsis by Clemens of his projected dramatic version of
"Tom Sawyer" taken from his copyright application for
his play.
The Arthur S. Dayton Collection.
Call Number: 817 C591tos
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: To the person sitting in darkness, by Mark Twain [pseud.]
Reprinted by permission from the North American review,
February, 1901.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: [New York? 1901?]
Description: 1st ed.
15 p. 18 cm.
Notes: Issued by the Anti-Imperialist League of New York.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain. 1935. p. 73.
Call Number: 817 C591tot
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Other Author(s): Walker, Franklin Dickerson, 1900-
Dane, G. Ezra (George Ezra), 1904-1941.
Title: Alta California.
Mark Twain's Travels with Mr. Brown : being heretofore
uncollected sketches writtern by Mark Twain for the San
Francisco Alta California in 1866 & 1867, describing the
adventures of the author and his irrepressible companion
in Nicaragua, Hannibal, New York, and other spots on
their way to Europe / collected and edited with an
introduction by Franklin Walker & G. Ezra Dane.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1940.
Description: 6 p.l., 3-296 p., 1 l., [1] leaf of plates (port.) ; 25 cm.
Notes: "First edition...limited to 1795 numbered copies of which
1750 are for sale. This copy is number 172."
Title page in red and black; printer's device on title
page.
Call Number: 817 C591tr
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: A true story, and The recent carnival of crime. By Mark
Twain [pseud.]
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: Boston, J. R. Osgood and Company, 1877.
Description: [1st ed., 1st issue.]
92 p. incl. front., plates. 13 cm.
Series: [Vest-pocket series of standard and popular authors]
Notes: Publisher's advertisements in red on end papers, 2 leaves
of publisher's advertisements at end.
Bound in original brown-orange cloth; cover stamped "J.R.O.
& Co."
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 30.
Call Number: 817 C591ts
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: What is man?
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Human beings.
Publisher: New York, Printed at the De Vinne Press, 1906.
Description: 5 p. l., 3-140 p. 24 cm.
Notes: First edition: privately printed as an anonymous work.
"This copy is one of an edition of two hundred and fifty
copies printed during the month of July, nineteen
hundred and six." This copy no. 12.
Title page in black and red.
Bound in original grey boards.
Autographs of Isabel Lyon Ashcroft and Merle Johnson.
Letter by Ralph W. Ashcroft, dated June 15, 1910 tipped in.
Bookplate of William Hartmann Woodin on fly leaf.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, 1935, p. 83.
Call Number: 817 C591w2
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: What is man? and other essays, by Mark Twain [pseud.]
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York and London, Harper & brother, [c1917]
Description: 3 p. l., 375, [1] p. front. [port.] illus. 21 cm.
Notes: First edition: "Published May, 1917 E-R" on verso of title
page.
Bound in original red cloth; circular M T and corn design
on front cover.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 95-96.
Table of Contents: What is man?-The death of Jean.-The turning-point of my
life.-How to make history dates stick.-The memorable
assassination.-A scrap of curious history.-Switzerland,
the cradle of liberty.-At the shrine of St. Wagner.-
William Dean Howells.-English as she is taught.-A
simplified alphabet.-As concerns interpreting the
deity.-Concerning tobacco.-The bee.-Taming the
bicycle.-Is Shakespeare dead?
Call Number: 817 C591w3
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Other Author(s): Walker, Franklin Dickerson, 1900-
Title: The Washoe giant in San Francisco, being heretofore
uncollected sketches by Mark Twain [pseud.] published in
the Golden era in the sixties, including Those blasted
children, The Lick house ball, The Kearny street ghost
story, Fitz Smythe's horse, and thirty-four more items
by the wild humorist of the Pacific slope. With many
drawings by Lloyd Hoff. Collected and edited, with an
introduction, by Franklin Walker.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: San Francisco, G. Fields, 1938.
Description: 143, [1] p. incl. front., illus. 25 cm.
Notes: First edition.
Advertisement of first edition laid in.
Duschnes, P.C. Catalogue no. 49, p. 20, no. 117. Dayton, p.
82.
"The complete list of Mark Twain material in 'The Golden
era'" p. 141-142.
"Bibliographical note": p. 143.
Call Number: 817 C591wa
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Other Author(s): Hirsch, Charlotte Teller, 1876-
Title: S. L. C. to C. T.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: [New York : privaely printed], 1925.
Description: 1st ed.
24 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes: Cover title.
"One hundred copies."
A collection of letters addressed to Charlotte Teller
(Hirsch)
Manuscript letter from Charlotte Teller (Hirsch) dated
March 20, 1922, addressed to Merle Johnson laid in.
Bookplate of William Hartmann Woodin on slipcase.
Potter, J.K. Samuel L. Clemens. First editions and values,
1932, p. 80.
Call Number: 817 C591Y10
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: [Autobiography]
Mark Twain's autobiography, with an introduction by Albert
Bigelow Paine.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, London, Harper & brothers, 1924.
Description: 2 v. fronts. (ports.) facsim. 25 cm.
Notes: "First edition H-Y" on verso of title page.
Bound in blue cloth.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 101.
Call Number: 817 C591Y3
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Other Author(s): Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937.
Title: Mark Twain's notebook, prepared for publication with
comments by Albert Bigelow Paine.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, London, Harper & Brothers, 1935.
Description: xi, 413 p. front. (port.) pl., facsims. 25 cm.
Notes: "First edition I-K" on verso of title page.
Bound in blue cloth.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 103.
Call Number: 817 C591Y4
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Other Author(s): Webster, Samuel Charles.
Title: Mark Twain, business man, edited by Samuel Charles Webster
...
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Webster, Charles L., 1851-1891.
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1946.
Description: xii p., 1 l., 409 p. incl. illus., geneal. tab. front.,
ports., facsims. 22 cm.
Notes: "An Atlantic monthly press book."
Contains a collection of family and business letters, most
of which have not previously been published, largely
concerned with Mark Twain's publishing venture with the
editor's father, Charles L. Webster. cf. Foreword.
"First edition published February 1946."
Call Number: 817 C591Y5
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Mark Twain's (burlesque) autobiography and first romance.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: New York, Sheldon & Company [c1871]
Description: 47 p. incl. illus., pl. 19 cm.
Notes: First edition.
Bound in original green cloth.
This work was not considered very good by the author, and
after a year or two, he bought the plates and destroyed
them. Cf. Mark Twain. An exhibition ... in the
Huntington Library, p. 32.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 12.
Call Number: 817 C591Y7
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Other Author(s): Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937.
Title: [Correspondence. Selections]
Mark Twain's letters / arranged with comment, by Albert
Bigelow Paine.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Publisher: New York : Harper, c1917.
Description: 1st ed.
2 v. : ill., facsims., ports ; 21 cm.
Notes: Paged continuously.
"Three hundred and fifty sets of this first edition ...
have been bound [in tan boards with tan buckram backs]
with uncut edges and paper labels."
Johnson, M De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark Twain.
p. 116.
Call Number: 817 C591Y8
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Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Authors, American--19th century--Biography.
Publisher: [s.l. : s.n., 1898?]
Description: vii p. ; 22 cm.
Notes: First edition, proofsheet, folded, untrimmed, unstitched.
Autobiographical sketch, never published. Cf. manuscript
note by Merle Johnson on top of p. [i]
Printed on paper water-marked "Mark Twain".
Bookplate of William Hartmann Woodin on slipcase.
Duschnes, P.C. Catalogue no. 49, [n.d.] no.44.
Call Number: 817 C591Y9
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Author: American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Other Author(s): National Institute of Arts and Letters (U.S.)
Title: Public meeting under the auspices of the American Academy
and the National Institute of Arts and Letters held at
Carnegie Hall, New York, November 3, 1910, in memory of
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Publisher: [New York] American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1922.
Description: 2 p. l., 103 p. 17 cm.
Series: [Publication no. 9]
Notes: First edition in book form.
Series title "Academy notes and monographs" is printed at
foot of pages.
Duschnes, P.C., firm. Catalogue no. 30, 1938, no. 176.
Call Number: 817 C591Yap
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Author: Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963.
Title: The ordeal of Mark Twain, by Van Wyck Brooks.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & company, [c1920]
Description: vii p., 1 l., 267 p. 21 cm.
Notes: "First printing April, 1920. Second printing September,
1920."
Call Number: 817 C591Ybr2
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Author: Clemens, Clara.
Title: My father: Mark Twain, by Clara Clemens; illustrated from
family photographs, with hitherto unpublished letters of
Mark Twain.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Publisher: New York, London, Harper & Brothers, 1931.
Description: vii, 292 p. front., plates, ports. 25 cm.
Notes: "First edition G-F."
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 103.
Call Number: 817 C591Ycm
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Author: De Voto, Bernard Augustine, 1897-1955.
Title: Mark Twain at work, by Bernard De Voto.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1942.
Description: ix, 144 p. port., 2 facsim. 25 cm.
Notes: "Boy's manuscript" is a sketch by Mark Twain from which his
Tom Sawyer was subsequently developed.
Table of Contents: The phantasy of boyhood: Tom Sawyer.
"Boy's manuscript."
Noon and the dark: Huckleberry Finn.
The symbols of despair.
Appendix.
Call Number: 817 C591Yd
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Author: Frear, Walter Francis, 1863-
Title: Mark Twain and Hawaii.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Hawaii--Description and travel.
Publisher: Chicago, Priv. Print., Lakeside Press, 1947.
Description: xiv, 519 p. illus., ports., map, facsims. 25 cm.
Notes: "This is copy number 152 of 1000 autographed copies of this
book". [Signed] Walter Francis Frear.
"The appendices [p. [247]-505 ... present a pretty complete
collection of practically all that Mark Twain wrote in
connection with Hawaii."--p. ix.
Includes bibliographical references.
Call Number: 817 C591Yf
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Author: Gillis, William Robert, 1840-1929.
Title: Memories of Mark Twain and Steve Gillis, by Wm. R. Gillis.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Gillis, Stephen Edward, 1838-1918.
Publisher: Sonora, Calif., Printed by the Banner, c1924.
Description: 96 p. illus., ports. 23 cm.
Notes: Published also under title: Gold rush days with Mark Twain
and Steve Gillis.
Author's autography on title page.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark
Twain, p. 240.
Call Number: 817 C591Yg2
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Author: Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920.
Title: My Mark Twain; reminiscences and criticisms, by W.D.
Howells ...
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Publisher: New York, London, Harper & Brothers, 1910.
Description: 5 p. l., 3-186 p., 1 l., front., plates, ports. 22 cm.
Notes: First edition, first state: top edges gilded; without the
rubber stamp notice: "Printed in U.S.A." on verso of
title page.
Author's autograph pasted on fly leaf.
Duschnes, P.C., firm. Catalogue no. 30, 1938, no. 163.
Call Number: 817 C591Yh
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Other Author(s): Pollard, Braxton.
Hannibal, Mo. Chamber of Commerce.
Title: In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, famed as Mark Twain, this book
is affectionately dedicated by the citizens of his
boyhood home, Hannibal, Missouri, 1935.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Publisher: [Hannibal, Mo., Lithographed by Standard printing company,
1935?]
Description: [24] p. illus., ports., facsims. 23.8 cm.
Notes: "Edited and designed by Braxton Pollard."
On cover: Mark Twain centennial, 1835-1935. Hannibal,
Missouri.
Bound in original paper covers.
Seven Gables Bookshop. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark
Twain) Second list p.9, no. 59.
Call Number: 817 C591Yi
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Author: Mark Twain Society of Chicago.
Title: Tributes to Mark Twain / by members of the society.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Publisher: Paris : Printed for the Mark Twain Society by Herbert
Clarke, 1930.
Description: 13 p. ; 18 cm.
Notes: Cover title.
"Written ... for the special Mark Twain number of the
Overland Monthly, April 1919."
Five hundred copies only of this booklet have been printed
for distribution to members of the Mark Twain Society.
Call Number: 817 C591Yin
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Author: Mack, Effie Mona.
Title: Mark Twain in Nevada, by Effie Mona Mack ...
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons; London, C. Scribner's Sons,
Ltd., 1947.
Description: xiv, 398 p. front., illus., plates, ports., facsims. 24 cm.
Notes: Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 361-369)
Bibliography: p. 377-379.
Call Number: 817 C591Ym
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Title: Mark Twain's seventieth birthday ; record of a dinner given
in his honor, with photographs of more than one hundred
authors of imaginative literature who were present upon
that occasion, together with addresses by Mark Twain, W.
D. Howells, Henry van Dyke, Richard Watson Gilder,
Brander Matthews, George W. Cable, John Kendrick Bangs,
Hamilton W. Mabie, and others.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Publisher: New York : Harper & Bros., [c1905]
Description: 1st ed.
16 leaves. : ill. ; 39 cm.
Notes: Cover-title.
The place names in imprint are printed between double
rules.
Bound in paper covers.
Duschnes, P.C. Catalogue no. 49. First and other editions
of Samuel L. Clemens, no. 60.
Call Number: 817 C591Yma
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Author: Mayfield, John S., 1904-
Title: Mark Twain vs. The Street Railway Co., by John S. Mayfield;
With an introduction by Charles J. Finger.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Metropolitan Street Railway Company, New York.
Publisher: Privately Printed, 1926.
Description: 1st ed.
[1]-25 [1] p., 1 l. illus., facsims. 22.2 cm.
Notes: Bound in original printed covers.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibl. of the works of Mark Twain, p.
122.
Call Number: 817 C591Yms
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Author: Wecter, Dixon, 1906-1950.
Other Author(s): Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title: Mark Twain in three moods. [Illus. with] three new items of
Twainiana. Edited by Dixon Wecter.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Publisher: San Marino, Calif. Friends of the Huntington Library, 1948.
Description: 32 p. port. 21 cm.
Series: Friends of the Huntington Library. Occasional publications
Notes: "This edition consists of 1200 copies specially printed for
the Friends of the Huntington Library. This copy is no.
"[without number]
Two of the items are by Mark Twain and one by C. E. S.
Wood.
Call Number: 817 C591Yw2
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Author: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
Other Author(s): Carpenter, Edwin H.
Title: Mark Twain; an exhibition selected mainly from the papers
belonging to the Samuel L. Clemens estate, on deposit in
the Huntington Library.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 --Bibliography--Catalogs.
Publisher: San Marino, Calif., 1947.
Description: 33 p. 2 ports. (incl. front.) facsim. 22 cm.
Notes: "This exhibition was first shown at the library's annual
observance of Friends' day, June 2, 1947."
"Handlist prepared by Edwin H. Carpenter, jr."
Call Number: 817 C591Zh
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Author: Johnson, Merle De Vore, 1874-1935.
Title: A bibliography of the works of Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne
Clemens; a list of first editions in book form and of
first printings in periodicals and occasional
publications of his varied literary activities, by Merle
Johnson.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 --Bibliography.
Publisher: New York, London, Harper & Brothers, 1935.
Description: Rev. and enl.
xiii, 274 p. front. (facsim.) illus. 25 cm.
Notes: "First edition."
Call Number: 817 C591Zj
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Author: Jones, Theodore A.
Other Author(s): Duschnes, Philip C., firm, booksellers, New York.
Title: First & other editions of Samuel L. Clemens, Mark Twain,
together with some association items & a large section
of biography, bibliography, analysis, collected by
Theodore A. Jones, Teaneck, N.J.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Publisher: New York, Philip C. Duschnes [1941?]
Description: 27 p. 25 cm.
Series: Duschnes, Philip C., firm, booksellers, New York. Catalogue
no. 49
Notes: "One of fifty large paper copies, specially bound. No. 19."
Cover-title.
Call Number: 817 C591Zjf
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Author: Duschnes, Philip C., firm, booksellers, New York.
Title: First and other editions of Samuel L. Clemens / collected
by the well known bibliophile and bibliographer, Alfred
P. Lee of Philadelphia ; with a few additions.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 --Bibliography--Catalogs.
Publisher: New York : P. C. Duschnes, 1938.
Description: 31 p. ; 24 cm.
Series: Its Catalogue ; no. 30
Notes: Cover-title.
Compiled by Jacob Blanck.
"Of this catalogue there was made an edition of six hundred
copies."
Call Number: 817 C591Zl
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Author: Potter, John K. (John Kelly), 1904-
Title: Samuel L. Clemens, first editions and values, by John K.
Potter.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 --Bibliography.
Publisher: Chicago, Black Archer Press, 1932.
Description: iii, 80 p. front., illus. (incl. facsims.) 19 cm.
Notes: "Of this work 500 copies have been issued for subscribers,
after which the type lines have been returned to the
melting pot. This copy is number 369."
Author's autograph presentation copy.
Duschnes, P.C., firm. Catalogue no. 49, [n.d.] no. 168.
Call Number: 817 C591Zp
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