Following the Equator
by TWAIN, Mark
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG++/No Jacket
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897. Endpapers professionally restored and book tightened. Handsome volume, bound in 1/2 green morocco with matching green boards, with five raised bands on spine, stamped in gold. The true First edition, First Issue with the single line imprint and with signature "11" at bottom of page 161. With over 190 illustrations including a portrait frontispiece from a photograph of the author. 712 pp. A travel account by Twain of his travels "around the world". A tight, clean copy. . First Edition / First Issue. Hard Cover. VG++/No Jacket.
Synopsis
Following the Equator (American English title) or More Tramps Abroad (English title) is a non-fiction travelogue published by American author Mark Twain in 1897. Twain was practically bankrupt in 1894 due to a failed investment into a "revolutionary" typesetting machine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- abookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011499
- Title
- Following the Equator
- Author
- TWAIN, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition / First Issue
- Publisher
- American Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Hartford
- Date Published
- 1897
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel; NYSHOW2010;
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Glossary
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- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...