Search Results: the american claimant by twain mark clemens

Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 337 pp. Very light rubbing to the extremities of the covers. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean.

NY : Harper & Bros. 1899. vg-. Hardcover. Vol. 21, Author's National Edition. 538pp; glossy b/w photo frontis + 2 b/w plates; text unmarked, light foxing to title pg & frontis; top edge gilt, others uncut; 7.5" tall; wear to edges of dark green cover; letting on spine faded; no dj .

Harper & Brothers, 1899-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1899. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 538 pp. The spine covering is very lightly faded. Gilt upper page edges. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean. "Author's National Edition.

New York: P. F. Collier Books, 1899. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, tanned pages. Writing on front pastedown. Cloth over boards is clean with minor shelf wear, bright gilt lettering on spine. ; Many short stories and other short writings. 7.5" (19 cm) tall; 397 pages.

New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1899. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Boards lightly soiled, pages ridges and endpapers foxed. 1899 Hard Cover. 397, [5] pp. 8vo. Navy blue cloth, gilt titles. "A novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. Twain wrote the novel with the help of phonographic dictation, the first author (according to Twain himself) to do so. The American Claimant is a comedy of mistaken identities and multiple role switches. Its cast of characters include an American enamored of British hereditary aristocracy and a British earl entranced by American democracy.

NY: Harper & Brothers, 1917. olive green c. w/gilt spine titles; 397 clean, unmarked pages. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by b/w Illus. 12 vo.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Beard, Dan. 1897 printing. Spine faded, a couple small smudges on exterior, hinges just beginning to weaken, ink name on front endpapers. 545 pp. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt titles. Black-and-white frontispiece and illustrations in text by Dan Beard. The complete text of Twain's novel The American Claimant, together with five short stories from Merry Tales, three from the 1,000,000 Bank-Note and Other Stories, and nine others. "Twain wrote the novel with the help of phonographic dictation, the first author (according to Twain himself) to do so. The American Claimant is a comedy of mistaken identities and multiple role switches. Its cast of characters include an American enamored of British hereditary aristocracy and a British earl entranced by American democracy.

Harper & Brothers, 1899. 538 pages. Dark green cloth with gilt ltrs on spine. 3 illustrations. Deckle side and bottom edges. Gold printers ink on top edges. Corners & head-heel of spine are bumped. Spine has five rubbed gilt bordered boxes. Spine broken at fep.. Authorized Uniform Edition. Hard Cover. G++/No Jacket.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930. Publication date ca. 1930s although copyright is earlier. Part of The Complete Works of Mark Twain, American Artists Edition. Light yellow textured cloth lettered and decorated in red and gilt, pictorial endpapers, color frontis and title page, about 7 inches tall. Some very ilght use-related soil to the light colored background, spine subtly darkened but readily legible, binding sound, pages clean, no names or other markings.. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

P. F. Collier & Son, 1899. 397 yellowing pages. Dark blue cloth with gilt ltrs on spine. illustrated, hinge broken at ffep and bfep, corners & head-heel of spine are bumped. Harper & Brothers edition.. Reprint Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Leipzig, Germany: Bernard Tauchnitz, 1892. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Tauchnitz Edition. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. 271 pp. a satire of sorts. 3/4 bound brown leather, raised spine bands and gilt letters, red buckram 4.75" x 6.4" boards. Binding tight and square, ffep & rep have 1/8" brown stain intermittently along the top & foreedges. Front Board top foreedge worn so board shows - about 1/3" long, lower fore-edge boards worn tips, Paper/pages unmarked, clean, and well-preserved. .

[1]-[xvi]+17-277+[1]+[8 ads] pages with frontispiece, 23 black and white illustrations. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4) bound in original publisher's olive green cloth with gilt lettering and black pictorial to spine and cover. Illustrated by Dan Beard. (BAL 3434; McBride page 134) First American edition. The Colonel Mulberry Sellers here re-introduced to the public is the same person who appeared as Eschol Sellers in the first edition of the tale entitled The Gilded Age, years ago, and as Beriah Sellers in the subsequent editions of the same book, and finally as Mulberry Sellers in the drama played afterward by John T. Raymond. The name was changed from Eschol to Beriah to accommodate an Eschol Sellers who rose up out of the vastly deeps of uncharted space and preferred his request--backed by threat of a libel suit--then went his way appeased, and came no more. In the play Beriah had to be dropped to satisfy another member of the race, and Mulberry was substituted in the hope that the objectors would be… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1892. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 258 pages. In Good condition. Bound in red cloth with gilt and black lettering and black stamped images. Boards show cocking to spine. bumping to corners, sunning to spine, and mild edge wear and shelfwear. Textblock has light age toning, foxing to pages, splitting between pages 160 and 161 and between pages 192 and 193, and partial splitting to rear interior hinge. Shelved Room A. BAL 3434. 1372575. Special Collections.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1892. First English edition. Illustrated by Dan Beard and Hal Hurst. 258 pp. Includes May, 1892 ads. 1 vols. 8vo. Original red decorated cloth, some fading, staining and soiling, short tears about spine, 32 pages publisher's advertisements dated May 1892, some spotting, mostly at front and back. A good copy. First English edition. Illustrated by Dan Beard and Hal Hurst. 258 pp. Includes May, 1892 ads. 1 vols. 8vo. BAL3434n; McBride 135

London: Chattto & Windus, , 1892. HB NO DJ, , 1st British Edition, 1892, NF-/NF+, NODJ,, embossed DESIGN Dark Blue cloth with Bright Gold Gilt Title front & gilt on spine Bright, Interior Nice clean some FoXing, light Wear, 258 pgs + page with b/w decorated design, Cover light Rub, Wear, APPENDIX. First Edition. Hard Cover.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1892-1893, 1892. First Edition . Plastic binder, soft cover. Very Good. Hal Hurst, illustrator. This is a group of disbound portions of The American Idler Magazine of the complete serialization of Twain's The American Claimant that are gathered together with the frontispiece portrait of Twain that appeared in volume one, the contents pages for both volume one and volume two, and the Luke Sharp's iinterview with Twain.

Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Dan Beard Line Drawings. A superb copy with gleaming cover gilt, tight and unmarked except for a historic 1919 Asheville, North Carolina bookplate neatly tipped to the front endpaper. Twain wrote this novel with the help of phonographic dictation, likely the first author to do so. This was also an attempt to write a book without mention of the weather, the first of its kind in fictitious literature (although, of course, the first sentence of the second paragraph contains ""fine, breezy morning""). Indeed, all the weather is contained in an appendix at the back of the book, which the reader is encouraged to reference from time to time. The story is a comedy of mistaken identities and multiple role switches. One rarely finds such a fine copy of this Twain work.

New York: Charles L. Webster & Co.. Very Good+. 1892. First Edition; First Printing. Original Cloth. First edition, BAL 3434, original unrestored olive-green cloth binding in better than Very Good condition, little rubbing to extremities; The American Claimant is Twain's comedy of mistaken identities and multiple role switches, all revolving around the serious debate between the hereditary aristocracy of Europe and the democracy of America; B & W Illustrations; 8vo; i-xvi, 17-277, [1], 8pp. adv., [2] pages .

New York: Charles L. Webster, 1892. First edition. Good. In original pale olive green cloth stamped with images of the Earl of Rossmore and the Colonel Mulberry Sellers, with the motto "suum cuique" (to each their own). Binding not fresh but sound and entire, which is true of the text as well. Ghost of old cello tape on pastedown.