Bernard Smith Preface (8 results)

Cloth. Condition: Fair. Reading copy. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light bowing to boards and staining to page ends. Toning to pages and edgewear. Dust jacket has many flaws with tape repairs and heavy rubbing and edgewear and few small tears.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Text/NEW w/faint margin discoloration & the letter "M" to fEP. Softcover (Portrait of seated white-haired Twain dressed in white)/Good/sound w/edge rubs & creasing to front & back. Text blocks dyed red. Posthumous anthology of essays & short stories from Mark Twain, pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910), best known for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). 240 pgs, edited by Pulitzer Prize winner, historian Bernard DeVoto (1897 - 1955), whose biography was written by Wallace Stegner. Contents are: 1, Letters from the Earth; 2, Papers from the Adams Family (7 chapters); 3, Letter to the Earth; 4, A Cat-Tale; 5, Cooper's Prose Style; 6, Official Report to the I.I.A.S.; 7, The Gorky Incident; 8, Simplified Spelling; 9, Something About Repentance; 10, From an English Notebook; 11, From the Manuscript of "A Tramp Abroad"; The French & the Comanches; 12, From an Unfinished Burlesque of Books on Etiquette; 13, The Damned Human Race (5 essays); and 14, The Great Dark, followed by Editorial & Biographical Notes. Strong copy w/tired softcover.

1953 509 pages illustrated binding (fair/poor) pages (good).

Condition: (good/fair). 1953 509 pages illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Priority uncertain. No statement of edition. 'K-M' on verso. '0962' on front flap of dust jacket. Preface dated March, 1962. Near fine hardback in very good plus price-clipped dust jacket. Name of previous owner (2 inch by 3/8 inch) in upper fore-edge corner of front pastedown. Dust jacket has 1/2 inch chips to head and heel of spine; a 1/4 inch by 1/4 inch chip to lower edge of front panel at spine; 3 inch by 3/4 inch chip to upper edge of rear panel at fore-edge fold; and moderate, if not minor additional wear/shelf wear/ rubbing to rear panel, edges, corners and front folds of spine and fore-edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 272 pp., illustrations. ex-library, dust jacket wear, bottom edges of cover are worn, label inside front cover, labels & stamps on 1st blank page, label on last blank page, labels inside back cover 0.0.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Priority uncertain. No statement of edition. 'K-M' on verso. '0962' on front flap of dust jacket. Preface dated March, 1962. Near fine plus, if not fine hardback in near fine dust jacket ($5.95). Book is faded along 1/8 inch of bottom edge of covers. Dust jacket has a 3/8 inch closed tear to bottom edge of front panel near fore-edge corner; a 3/4 inch closed tear to top edge of front panel at spine-fold; wear to 1/4 inch of head and heel of spine; a a 1/2 inch closed tear and associated 1.25 inch hairline crease to top edge of rear panel and minor, if not trivial shelf wear/rubbing to panels, corners, edges, fore-edge folds, and extremities.

First Edition. 31 x 25 cm 272 pp with 232 colour and 450 b&w illustrations. Cloth, very good in dustmarked dustwrapper. Inscribed by Arthur Boyd (son).