Henry Nash Smith Preface (4 results)
More imagesLETTERS FROM THE EARTH (Fawcett Crest Book M1447)
Mark Twain; Bernard DeVoto (Editor); Henry Nash Smith (Preface)
Language: English
Published by Fawcett Publications, Greenwich, CT, 1962
- Softcover
Seller: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.100POCKETS
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued. 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.…
Published by New York Crest R647 1963., 1963
- Softcover
Seller: Kennys Bookstore, Olney, MD, U.S.A.Kennys Bookstore
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. 1963. Paperback. Good clean copy. Covers showing some shelfwear, otherwise remains in good condition. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
Published by New York Crest R647 1963., 1963
- Softcover
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, IrelandKennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd.
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. 1963. Paperback. Good clean copy. Covers showing some shelfwear, otherwise remains in good condition. . . . .
Letters From The Earth
Twain, Mark; Edited By Bernard Devoto; With A Preface By Henry Nash Smith (Dated March 1962)
Published by New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1962
- Hardcover
Seller: Time Tested Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.Time Tested Books
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Add to basketHardcover. 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.…
