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Published by Northwestern University Press, Evanston, IL, 1970
ISBN 10: 0810102900ISBN 13: 9780810102903
Seller: Heartwood Books, A.B.A.A., Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author to scholar/editor/author Cecil Y. Lang. Very Good, internally clean, solid hard cover First Printing with a bit of foxing to the cover cloth in a complete Very Good dust jacket with some small tears and some light soiling. #. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Book Thug, 2015
ISBN 10: 1771662018ISBN 13: 9781771662017
Seller: Samson Books, Trenton, ON, Canada
Book First Edition Signed
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Slight edgewear.Translated by Elisabet Rafols and Ona Bantjes-Rafols. First English Edition. Original text copyright 2005 by Marti Sales. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng. Signed by Author.
Published by PublishAmerica, 2007
ISBN 10: 1424194768ISBN 13: 9781424194766
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Softcover. Pictorial covers with black and white lettering. Copyright page dated 2007, stated first edition. 327 pages. Very good condition. Covers crisp. Binding stiff. Pages clean and free of marks. SIGNED on title page by author, who inscribed, "To: Warner from Dan.". Signed by Author(s).
Published by Star of Bethlehem Press, Bevis, Ohio, 1992
Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. 1st edition. 1st edition thus, 1992. A Near Fine copy. 8vo., 39 pp., bound in stiff green wraps. Inscribed by author on title page. Minor signs of shelf wear, clean and unmarked.
Published by New York: Viking, 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 0670881813ISBN 13: 9780670881819
Seller: Windy Hill Books, Bacova, VA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine Dustjacket. Ronald Himler (illustrator). First Thus. SIGNED by illustrator on front free end paper. Signed by Illustrator(s).
Published by University of Missouri Press, Columbia , Missouri, 1993
ISBN 10: 0826209203ISBN 13: 9780826209207
Seller: Inga's Original Choices, Piggott, AR, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hard Cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. DJ in new mylar, clean, crisp, colors bright. Pages clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Blue/green covers, gilt lettering. Signed by author with dedication on half-title page and signed with dedication by Chuck Kiesler, who served as chancellor of the University of Missouri-Columbia from 1992 - 1996. Subtitle: Essays on a Book, a Boy, and a Man. The author traces the history of Huck Finn from its inception in 1876 to its problematic presence in today's American culture. Quirk reveals how the author's imagination worked and why this novel has affected so many people for so long and in so many ways. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. Inscribed By Author.
Published by Books of Wonder, William Morrow and Co. (1994) First edition with 1, 1994
Seller: The Bookstall, Richmond, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Dark blue cloth with gold lettering, 7 X 9 1/4 inches, 348 pages. 17 full page color illustrations by Kellogg. Signed and inscribed by the illustrator on the title page with a small drawing of Huck Finn and a heart: "Here's an American Classic for a Heroic American! from your friend Steven Kellogg 1997". Fine in Fine unclipped jacket. Biography of Kellogg laid in. Inscribed by Illustrator(s).
Published by Books of Wonder/Morrow, New York, 1994
ISBN 10: 0688106560ISBN 13: 9780688106560
Seller: Bud Plant & Hutchison Books, Cedar Ridge, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Kellogg, Steven (illustrator). 1st ed. 1st ptg., 4to full blue cloth stamped in gilt. Illustrated in color by Steven Kellogg and signed with a drawing of Huck's head on the title page. Fine in fine, unclipped dj, no previous owner's marks. Signed with Drawing by the artist.
Published by Caliban, Montclair, 1984
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First, Limited Edition. First Printing. Signed bookplate loosely laid-in, limited to 200 copies, this being #52. Octavo (20.5 cm); red Canson wrappers printed in black; handmade Indian endpapers; 9pp. Slight wrinkle to covers, Near Fine.
Published by Diani & Devine Press, Los Angeles, 2011
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Illustrated by E. W. Kemble and Denise Devine (illustrator). 1st Edition, Stated; First Printing. Book is as new. No dust wrapper as issued. ; B&W Drawings; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 359 pages; Special edition of Huck Finn in which the "N" word Is, in every case, changed to "robot," and the illustrations have been redone to show Jim as a robot rather than an African-American. These changes make for an entirely new reading experience that falls somewhere between satire and science fiction. Signed with inscription, "To Ken," by both editors on the title page. Privately published and somewhat uncommon book, especially signed. Special edition of Huck Finn in which the "N" word Is, in every case, changed to "robot," and the illustrations have been redone to show Jim as a robot rather than an African-American. These changes make for an entirely new reading experience that falls somewhere between satire and science fiction. Signed with inscription, "To Ken," by both editors on the title page. Privately published and somewhat uncommon book, especially signed.; Signed by Editors.
Published by Columbia, Mo: University of Missouri Press, 1985
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Octavo, blue cloth lettered in silver; pictorial dust jacket. First edition. A multiple presentation copy, inscribed to Twain scholar Nick Karanovich by colleagues (who contributed essays to this volume), including J. Donald Crowley, John Gerber (Introduction), Louis J. Budd ("A Nobler Roman Aspect of Huck Finn"), Tom Quirk ("Life Imitating Art"), Jay Martin ("Genie in the Bottle"), Publisher Matthew J. Bruccoli, Alan Gribben ("Boy-Book Elements in Huck Finn"), Allison Ensor ("Illustrating Huck Finn"), Hamlin Hill ("Huck Finn's Humor Today"), Roy Harvey Pearce ("Yours Truly, Huck Finn"), Robert Sattelmeyer ("Huck Finn and the Problem of Tradition"), Stanley Brodwin ("Mark Twain in the Pulpit"), and James M. Cox ("A Hard Book to Take"). A gorgeous copy of this venerable who's who of Twainian scholars with a distinguished provenace. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Lorson's Books & Prints, Fullerton, California, 2007
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. "This special edition of first-edition chapters from Mark Twain's ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN has been designed and produced in the year 2007 by Joe D'Ambrosio exclusively for Lorson's Books & Prints in Fullerton, California using Hoefler text digital typefaces and Adobe PageMaker software; giclee-printed on Ingres paper. The edition is limited to twenty-one copies. This is copy No. One that includes Chapters I and II from the specific volume." Signed by publisher Jim Lorson on the colophon. Original gray cloth binding, with a reproduction of Mark Twain's signature inset within a pictorial paper overlay on the front panel. A fine copy, housed in the publisher's clamshell box.
Published by Pennyroyal Press, West Hatfield, 1985
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
full green morocco. Pennyroyal Press (illustrator). 4to. full green morocco. Accompanied by a linen-covered portfolio containing an extra set of the engravings, both enclosed in a linen-covered slipcase. (xxxiv), 419, (vii) pages. One of 350 copies signed by the artist Barry Moser. A near fine copy with the accompanying portfolio in fine condition. This edition was published on February 18, 1985 on the one hundredth anniversary of the publishing of the first American edition. It is full bound in a deep green morocco with borders of triple gold fillets on top and bottom covers by E. Gray Parrot, then of Easthampton, Massachusetts. A calligraphic pair of dates 1885, 1985 circled in gold, and spine decorated with gold fillets and title. Orange striped paste papers were used for the endpapers. Accompanied by the publisher's extra suite of 49 prints housed in a liner folder with the book and suite of plates housed in a linen slipcase. The publisher's Prospectus is laid in. As stated by John Henry Nash in his foreword, we are reminded "that the course of American literature was changed by Huck Finn. Second, that the use of speech as narrative won for American literature its own kind of freedom." A fine collector's copy in a like folder and slipcase. The book was printed by Harold McGrath.
Published by Charles L. Webster and Company, New York, 1885
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
366 pp. 8vo, publisher's decorated green cloth. First edition; first printing with the following points: p. 13 in first state; p. 57 in first state; p. 155 in first state; title page a cancel; p. 283 integral; frontispiece in second state; p. 283 in State C. BAL 3415 Foxing to fore-edge and preliminaries; some moderate use to cloth at the top and bottom of the spine; a very good copy with the gold decoration in attractive condition. Laid in is a 12mo leaf, signed "Truly Yours / Mark Twain [paraph]".
Published by Charles L. Webster and Company, New York, 1885
Seller: Tschanz Rare Books, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First Edition, Early State. 366pp. Octavo [22 cm] Original green cloth with pictorial stamping to front board and backstrip. Near fine. Profusely illustrated throughout by E.W. Kemble. Signed card laid in. Beautiful copy of this timeless work of a young boy and his journey down the Mississippi River. The great American novel. "all American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.there was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." - Ernest Hemingway. BAL 3415.
Published by Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885
Seller: Trilby & Co. Books, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Collectible: Very Good. First Edition. Publisher's original 1/2 leather, with page edges, pastedowns, and endpapers all marbled. One of just 500 copies printed (Raptis Rare Books, internet article, March 2014) and comes with a copy of the infamous "priapic plate", one of 100 proof copies made by Merle Johnson from an original leaf from an unbound copy found in the collection of Willard S. Morse.///LAID in is a hand written response, declining an invitation, on a folded Quarry Farm labeled note, dated "Sept. 17/03", and SIGNED, "S. L. Clemens". (Quarry Farm was the home of Susan Langdon Crane, sister of Mark Twain's wife Olivia, and often the summer residence of the Twains. Mark Twain wrote, at least in part, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn while at Quarry Farm). The note sheet was created with a fold to yield 4 writing surfaces although this message is confined solely to the letterhead panel; The note was then manually folded, horizontally. It was written 5 weeks prior to the Twain family leaving for Italy and was penned during the last summer they spent together at Quarry Farm, as Olivia died in Italy the following June. ///CONDITION OF THE NOTE: Very good-near fine, with a touch of toning, faint soiling, two miniscule specks on the letterhead panel, the faint horizontal crease, and light peeling on the rear panel where it had been affixed to some other surface. ///CONDITION OF THE BOOK: The spine and corners have been professionally restored (corners still showing the bumped tips) and the marbled surfaces have some scratches and nicks. Interior condition problems: 1.) The pastedown/endpaper hinges have been reinforced, 2.) the front endpaper has a 1/8"x 1/4" upper corner chip, 3.) there is scattered light foxing on the front and rear the preliminary pages, 4.) leaves 3-18 have areas of (food?) staining heaviest on page 17 with bleeding back to the copyright page and finally vanishing on page 36, 5.) the bottom corner of page 23-24 has a 1/2"x7/8" chip. 6.) the rest of the text has occasional soiling, some perimeter stains, a few tipped corners, one dog-eared page, and most pages have light perimeter toning. ///ISSUE POINTS: The tissue guarded front plate is second state with no cloth visible under the bust. The title/copyright leaf is integral (lack of uniform opinion on this point), "Him and another man" is incorrectly listed at page 88 (instead of page 87 where it appears), page 57 has "with the was" on line 11 from the bottom, page 143 is missing the "l" in "Col." (which is part of the illustration at the top line of the text) and has the broken "b"in "body" on line 7, the final 5 of page 155 is lacking (again, lacks consensus), the illustration on page 283 is bound in with the noticeable curve on the fly of Silas Phelp's trousers, and the final leaf is blank. ///CONDITION OF THE PROOF PLATE: The plate is lightly toned and there are some creases, and a small hole (1/8" x 1/16") on the right edge; repaired on the verso with a small piece of tape. ///OVERALL: in spite of the aforementioned flaws, this is a very good and quite scarce 130 year old volume. Several of these leather bound copies are in university and library collections, while others have surely been destroyed or lost, leaving precious few for private collections. Signed.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The very rare first edition in publisher's sheepskin, with the first issue point of the original drawing with the unaltered fly. Signed and dated by the author on a laid-in small card. Very good condition, front cover partially detached from spine. Previous owner's inscription on 2nd front free end paper. Housed in a handsome quarter-leather custom-make collector's clamshell case.
Published by Charles L. Webster, 1885
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by Mark Twain on a laid in signature. This First Edition book has the original boards that are in nice shape with light wear to the spine and panels. The binding is tight, and the panels are crisp with slight wear to the edges. The pages are clean, with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a beautiful copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION SIGNED by the author. We buy Twain First Editions. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Charles L. Webster and Company, New York, 1886
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Early printing of Twain's masterpiece, inscribed by Mark Twain. Octavo, bound in half buckram by Roycroft with paper labels to the spine, tissue-guarded frontispiece photogravure plate of Gerhardt's bust of Clemens, one hundred and seventy-four illustrations by E. W. Kemble. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Mr. Garth W. Cate: TakingÂtheÂpledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it. Truly Yours, Mark Twain, Nov. 25/06." With a lengthy letter of provenance dated October 14, 1964 and signed by the recipient which reads in part, "Dear Mr. Jacobs, If I had been younger and could have carried out a study of some of Mark Twain's motives and acts, I never would have parted with my cherished old copy of the first printing of Huckleberry Finn. This was the first book given to me by my father. In 1906-1907 I was a lecture manager for Elbert Hubbard, the Sage of East Aurora, whose quasi-socialist group The Roycrofters was quite famous as an arts and crafts enter at East Aurora, New York. By that time the HUCK FINN was loose in its covers. Elbert Hubbard saw the book on my desk when I brought it in to have it rebound in the Roycroft Bindery. Said he, "No author could resist seeing such a well worn volume testifying to the delight it had given many readers. Why don't you send it down to Mark Twain and ask him to inscribed it. I'll sign and send Mark a few of my own books along with it, thus salting the mine for you." So I sent HUCK back to its spiritual father, and when it returned I was somewhat shocked, having been sent to a temperance Sunday School by a whiskey fearing mother, to find that he had inscribed it "To Mr. Garth W. Cate - Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but will improve it." (Incidentally it was several years after that before I took my first drink. I am an abstainer today). Later on I was to marry a Christian Science practitioner, and when she saw this inscription she exclaimed: Why, that is the most immoral thing I ever saw! How could a great author send such a sentiment to a young man?" A careful search of Mark Twain's writings revealed that he had a deep-seated lifetime aversion for pledges, especially when they had been obtained under pressure from those of an older generation. It seems when Mark was a boy in his early teens, his mother and aunt talked and pressured him into signing a pledge not to touch alcohol in any from. Later he was to refer to this as "A ball and chain clanking behind him down the years of time." He hated such restrictions, especially when thrust upon him while immature." In very good condition. With the original publisherâ s decorated green cloth cover bound in and three rare portraits of Twain tipped in. With two further letters of provenance and several period Twain-related clippings adhered to several pages. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional presentation copy with noted provenance. Written over an eight-year period, Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was controversial from the outset, attacked by critics for its crudeness, coarseness and vulgarity. Upon issue of the American edition in 1885, several libraries, including the Concord and Brooklyn Public Libraries, banned it from their shelves. Twain later remarked to his editor, "Apparently, the Concord library has condemned Huck as 'trash and only suitable for the slums.' This will sell us another twenty-five thousand copies for sure!" The book nevertheless emerged as one of the defining novels of American literature, prompting Hemingway to declare: "All modern literature comes from one book by Mark Twain. It's the best book we've had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing since.".