Language: English
Published by New York Public Library, NY, 2010
ISBN 10: 0871044641 ISBN 13: 9780871044648
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. b/w photographs/ephemera (illustrator). A catalog that accompanied an exhibit celebrating the 175th anniversary of Mark Twain's birth and the 100th anniversary of his death. Prepared as a collaborative effort between The Morgan Library and The New York Public Library, it was shown at the Morgan from September 17, 2010 to January 2, 2011. Two essays are included: the first, by Isaac Gewirtz, is titled "A Skeptic's Progress" and the second is by Declan Kiely and is titled "A Century of Collection Mark Twain at The Morgan Library & Museum and The New York Public Library".140 clean, unmarked pages.
Published by Longman Brown Green, 1853
Seller: Bristow & Garland, Shaftesbury, United Kingdom
US$ 69.28
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketFrontispiece and illustrations in the text. 8vo (7 x 4 5/8 inches), pages: viii:312:24 (publisher's advertisements). Original green blindstamped cloth. 1 1/4 inch split to upper joint. Contemporary inscription on front free endpaper and recto of frontispiece.
Published by Longman Brown Green and Longmans,, 1847
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 363.00
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Add to basketSm. 8vo., First Edition, with woodcut illustrations in the text; original green ribbed cloth, boards with multiple frame borders in blind, gilt back, uncut, cream endpapers, a remarkably well-reserved bright, crisp copy. With personal armorial bookplate on front paste-down, and binder's ticket of Westley & Clark on rear paste-down. CRISP, ELEGANT COPY OF AN ANGLING CLASSIC IN WHOLLY UNRESTORED PUBLISHER'S BINDING. 'Highly esteemed. The chapters on fly-fishing are unusually clear and comprehensible' (Westwood & Satchell). Westwood & Satchell, pp. 85-6.