Charles Neider Editor Mark Twain (38 results)

Hard cover. First edition. Very good in very good dust jack.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Stated fifth Bantam Classic printing. Solid heft and unnerving front cover lend refreshing perspective on the American evergreen staple resource. Ex libris with borrowing card still in pocket on front cover's reverse, the paperback appears to have only been checked out that first instance with interiors remarkable bright and unmolested. and covers bearing only the '5-18' scrawl upon front and spine. Very good condition, still. See photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Printing. Very good black cloth hardcover in worn dust jacket with chips & tears, no names or markings. Abridged & edited by Charles Neider with intro, drawings by author. 1st printing 1977. Size 5x8 with 319 pages. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

paperback. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club. Octavo in jacket with edgewear and some short tears. Flap not clipped. Black cloth covered spine with silver lettering on spine edge. Ochre paper covered boards. Jacket illustration by Leslie Tucker. Wear to board edges. [489 pages].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Pretty nice book club edition. Revealing insights through Twain's letters.

Paperback. Condition: Used: Good. A standard copy with a tight and square binding. Text is clean but has yellowed. Spine has some creasing. Softcovers are lightly scuffed. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Acceptable. No Jacket. Shelf wear on edges of spine. Spine softening with age.

Paperback. Condition: Good - Cash. General use wear, surface and edges rubbed. Corners bumped and show wear. Pages show reader wear. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Minus or Very Good. Original vintage 1959 issue. Very good light wear - no markings in a used jacket depicting Twain smoking a pipe in an easy chair.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Unclipped ($2.45), mylar protected dust jacket. The book has clean text, no marks or writing. Unbelievably tight binding. Sharp corners. Some very shallow shelf bumps to the bottom of the boards. The DJ has a 1/2" closed tear and some minor creasing to the spine's head. (HP6051N).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. About As New in all respects, perhaps unread-unopened. Sewn in book marker, insert present. Title-page states "Now Collected for the First Time, edited with an introduction by Charles Neider." This declaration may come from the Hanover House collection of the same name also 1957 by Neider. Hanover House was also an imprint in the Doubleday family. Not in the McBride bibliography of Twain's works although the Hanover is. Neider was a prominent Twain scholar of the 20th century who edited and introduced many collections of Mark Twain's works. In the blue and gilt Tree of Life binding by Rafael Palacios for the ICL. From the publisher's description: The International Collectors Library was a book club series published by Doubleday Book & Music Clubs, Inc. from the late 1940s through the late 1980s. They were produced in Garden City, New Jersey. They were intended to be inexpensive reprints of great literature similar Everymans Library (Dent/Dutton), Modern Library (Random House), Penguin Classics (Penguin Publishing), and Oxford Worlds Classics (Oxford University Press). Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. light shelf wear; jacket shows wear to tips and corners, flaps darkened, approx 5 cm closed tear and crease to front panel, rear panel discolored. First separate publication, "a marvelous, biting satire of the Reconstruction Era." Not in Mark Twain: A Bibliography, McBride. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Most items ship with tracking numbers and(generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Green and cream boards have light wear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Tanning. Pages clean. Binding good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First printing. Blue & yellow covers. Tall 8vo, 388 pages. Covers soiled - contents fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. his is a Fine copy- neither the edition nor the printing is stated. The price on the dust jacket is $4.95. The bottom corner of the dust jacket is price clipped. The book itself is Fine -there are tape marks on the front and rear first blank pages-left from taping the mylar jacket cover to the jacket . Tape marks to the four corners. No tears or chips to the jacket. The top of the book has been stained a light green color. There is no isbn number.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. First thus. Doubleday & Co., 1965; stated First Edition, no later printings indicated; xxxv, 244pp. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; very minor wear to edges of green cloth boards, gilt titling remains bright and bold; text very good. Light wear to edges of clipped dust jacket; jacket arrives wrapped in protective mylar. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Octavo, hardcover, VG in VG green pictorial dj. 969 pp. Contains: Tom and Huck; the gilded age; (1873) Tom Sawyer (1876), Prince and Pauper (1881) and his masterpiece Huck Finn (1884). Edited with introduction by Charles Neider. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 560 pages. 8.25x5.50x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Mark Twain (illustrator). 705pp. Black cloth spine with orange boards, DJ VG, $15.95 price on flap, light brown foxing spots on outerpage edges, The complete essays of Mark Twain,

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Out of print. An exchange of views on Twain between Twain scholar Neider and his Russian counterpart, Y. Beretsnitsky.

Paperback octavo, very good condition, spine lettering little faded, laminate coating lightly creased top & bottom edges front cover, rear cover little creased (few tiny dents), minor edgewear, internally excellent, remainder spot bottom edge. 448 pp. This anthology is a generous selection from the best of Mark Twain's travel writings. The travels are from Virginia City to Venice, from New Orleans to Nazareth, from silver mining in Nevada to the Pyramids and Sphinx of Egypt. Twain's descriptions are filled with humor, shrewd commentary on the people, and the customs and mores of foreign lands. (An unabridged re-issue of a book originally published in New York in 1961. Edited by Charles Neider, a noted compiler of works by American writers.).

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 343 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Omnibus. DJ and boards show light shelf wear, some creasing, lower fore corner of front flap clipped, top corner priced. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 676 pages.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 722 pages. 8.50x5.50x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine(-). Octavo in white multicolored DJ, deckled edges, xxiv, 676 pages; 22 cm. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. Frog illustration to DJ spine and two color illustrations to front DJ (steamboat and Mark Twain). **A large, heavy book. Extra shipping charges may apply for international & expedited orders. Please inquire.** Contents: The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County -- The story of the bad little boy -- Cannibalism in the cars -- A day at Niagara -- Legend of the Capitoline Venus -- Journalism in Tennessee -- A curious dream -- The facts in the great beef contract -- How I edited an agricultural paper -- A medieval romance -- My watch -- Political economy -- Science vs. luck -- The story of the good little boy -- Buck Fanshaw's funeral -- The story of the old ram -- Tom Quartz -- A trial -- The trials of Simon Erickson -- A true story -- Experience of the McWilliamses with membranous croup -- Some learned fables for good old boys and girls -- The canvasser's tale -- The loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton -- Edward Mills and George Benton: a tale -- The man who put up at Gadsby's -- Mrs. McWilliams and the lightning -- What stumped the bluejays -- A curious experience -- The invalid's story -- The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm -- The stolen white elephant -- A burning brand -- A dying man's confession -- The professor's yarn -- A ghost story -- Luck -- Playing courier -- The Californian's tale -- The diary of Adam and Eve -- The Esquimau maiden's romance -- Is he living or is he dead? -- The ?1,000,000 bank-note -- Cecil Rhodes and the shark -- The joke that made Ed's fortune -- A story without end -- The man that corrupted Hadleyburg -- The death disk -- Two little tales -- The belated Russian passport -- A double-barreled detective story -- The five boons of life -- Was it heaven? or hell? -- A dog's tale -- The $30,000 bequest -- A horse's tale -- Hunting the deceitful turkey -- Extract from Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven -- A fable -- The mysterious stranger. "Contains a total of sixty stories, thirteen of them gathered from works of non-fiction. They cover the entire span of Twain's writing life, [published] from 1865 to 1916, six years after his death . The stories are arranged chronologically according to the years of first publication, and alphabetically within a given year." A note on the text. Short stories, American -- 19th century. Extremely mild wear to spine head and foot, exceedingly gentle bumping to front board-rear corner, extremely mild rubbing to other 3 corners, faint soiling to fore-edges, bright pages in tight binding, less than quarter-inch tear to DJ top corners, less than quarter-inch clipped to DJ spine head and foot, sunned DJ spine and rear DJ, light soiling to rear DJ, less than quarter-inch tear to front DJ, else Near Fine(-) in Very Good DJ. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated).

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Condition: Very Good. Publisher: Doubleday and Company, Inc, NY, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. FINE- hardcover book in FINE- dust-jacket. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves.

Wraps. First Edition. Uncorrected Galley Proof in tall wraps with a printed note from the publisher stapled to the front cover. From the library of a former READER'S DIGEST editor with a note from her laid in as well as paperclips marking passages of interest. Long mended tear to upper left corner of the front cover. Very Good.