A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
by Twain, Mark
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Charles L. Webster. 1890. First edition, mixed second state - no 'S' in illustration page 59 but with broken type on page 72. Original decorated cloth boards, reading 'A Yankee in King Arthur's Court' both upper board and spine. Many b&w illus, dec endpapers, pp 575. Binding heavily shaken, stitching weak, rubbed head and foot of spine. rubbed edges and corners. Good condition. Twain comic novel in which a Connecticut Yankee engineer travels through time and space to England during the reign of King Arthur. 1st edition thus. Boards.
Synopsis
The original American satiristCracked on the head by a crowbar in nineteenth-century Connecticut, Hank Morgan wakes to find himself in King Arthur's England. Branded by Twain's aptitude for broad comedy and biting social satire, the grim truths of Twain's Camelot-fear, injustice, ignorance-resound as clearly now as when it was written
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Details
- Bookseller
- Muir Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 102371
- Title
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- Author
- Twain, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Boards
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st edition thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles L. Webster
- Date Published
- 1890
- Keywords
- England, King Arthur, Literature, USA
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Muir Books
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Perth, Western Australia
About Muir Books
MUIR BOOKS. Western Australia's largest and leading rare, secondhand, antiquarian and out of print bookshop, established in 1973 and managed by Rob & Janet Muir together with Tara Surry. We have over 50,000 books in stock. We are located in Perth (precinct of Northbridge), walking distance from the State Library, Art Gallery and Museum.
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.