Roughing by Twain Mark, Signed (15 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Limited Edition. Includes publisher's slipcase and onion skin jacket. Signed by artist and hand-numbered on limitation page. Jacket spine mostly gone, jacket edges rubbed with loss, slipcase edges a bit toned. 1972 Hard Cover. xvii, [1], 445 pp. 8vo. Introduction by Edward Wagenknecht, illustrations by Noel Sickles. "Roughing It is a book of semi-autobiographical travel literature written by American humorist Mark Twain. It was written during 1870 - 71 and published in 1872 as a prequel to his first book Innocents Abroad. This book tells of Twain's adventures prior to his pleasure cruise related in Innocents Abroad. Roughing It follows the travels of young Mark Twain through the Wild West during the years 1861 - 1867. After a brief stint as a Confederate cavalry militiaman, he joined his brother Orion Clemens, who had been appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory, on a stagecoach journey west. Twain consulted his brother's diary to refresh his memory and borrowed heavily from his active imagination for many stories in the novel. Roughing It illustrates many of Twain's early adventures, including a visit to Salt Lake City, gold and silver prospecting, real-estate speculation, and his beginnings as a writer. In this memoir, readers can see examples of Twain's rough-hewn humor, which would become a staple of his writing in his later books, such as Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. U.S. astronauts Frank Borman and James Lovell read "Roughing It" aloud to pass the time aboard NASA's Gemini VII, a 14-day-long Earth orbital mission in December 1965. Borman recalls reading the book during an on-camera interview in the 1999 PBS-TV (USA) television program "Nova: To the Moon". Signed by illustrator.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. LIMITED EDITION. 4to. LIMITED SIGNED EDITION, one of 1,500 copies. SIGNED by Sickles on limitation page at rear of text. Housed in faintly rubbed slipcase. Mild scraping to corners of slipcase open end. Faint soiling to top edge of slipcase. VG in VG slipcase. Illustrator.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 28.5 x 18.5 c m. Quarto. 443pp. Limited to 1500 copies signed by the illustrator, Noel Sickles, of which this is copy 1437. Grey cloth spine, marble boards in matching slipcase. Chipped glassine wrapper. With an introduction by Edward Wagenknecht.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1972. Original quarter cloth, gilt, and illustrated paper boards, and marbled paper slipcase with printed spine label, illustrated by Noel Sickles, many in color, 445 pp., limited to 1500 copies signed by the illustrator, this is number 1366. The volume and slipcase in Fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. copy 1450, signed by illustrator Noel Sickles on the colophon. near fine copy, slipcase shows minor wear and tanning. notes laid-in.

Hard Cover. #355 of 1500 copies signed by the Illustrator. VERY SLIGHT FOXING TO ENDPAPERS, OTHERWISE FINE IN FINE SLIPCASE. A pretty copy. Introduction by Edward Wagenknecht. Illustrated by Noel Sickles.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Sickles, Noel (illustrator). First edition thus, hardcover, #946 of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator, tiny bump to base of spine, otherwise a Near Fine copy in a lightly shelfworn, VG+ slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Noel Sickles (illustrator). This book is in excellent gently-used condition. Structurally and cosmetically the exterior of the book is among the best I have seen in a nearly 50 year-old book. The interior of the book is also stellar. The pages are still very bright white and the illustrations are sharp and vivid. The only potentially undesirable aspect is that there are discreet owner marks (see photos of title page and artists signature page, as well as one close-up so that you cant miss it before making your purchase decision. There is also some minor slipcase discoloration, etc. However, the slipcase took 50 years of sun, etc. while protecting the book almost perfectly. Signed by artist.

Tall thick 8vo. xxvii, [1], 445, [1] pp. Illustrated title in red & black, colour plates, black & white text illustrations. Quarter-beige linen over marbled illustrated boards, gilt lettering & illust. on spine, w/ open-backed slipcase, spine label (minor edgewear, rubbing), NF/VG copy, inscribed & numbered by artist on colophon. First Limited Editions Club edition, signed & numbered No. 299 of 1500 copies by the artist, of this classic work of trekking across America, mining adventures in Nevada, Virginia City, San Francisco, and then to the Hawaiian islands. Sickles (1910-1982) was a noted illustrator who could create vivid line drawings of railroads, rugged landscapes, and illustrated the cover to Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. LEC, 448.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Introduction by Edward Wagenknecht. Illustrated by Noel Sickles. This copy is number 1,094 of a limited edition of 1,500 copies. SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Fine in a near fine (age toned along the spine) original glassine dust wrapper and housed in a near fine slipcase.; Signed by Illustrator.

Hardcover. Noel Sickles (illustrator). Tall octavo (7" x 11") bound in quarter tan buckram over patterned paper boards, spine lettered in gilt. Introduction by Edward Wagenknecht. Printed at the Sign of the Stone Book. Copy #887 of 1500 with 13 full-page color plates and a number of black-and-white text drawings by Noel Sickles. SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase.

NY 1972. LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Illus by Noel Sickles, 11x7", cloth backed boards, 445pp. Introduction by Edward Wagenknecht. SIGNED BY SICKLES.

1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. Custom Clamshell Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case for Mark Twain's Classic: ROUGHING IT. A Superb Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is Gilt-stamped at the spine. The case is finished in black Nuba® with a 'sculpted' design of an iconic wagon with gold sides. Every TBCL case can be finished in a selection of fine leathers & cloths or Nuba® or a combination of both. Nuba® is a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck leather. This clamshell is perfectly sized to accommodate your first edition. A Terrific Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. TBCL Web Site photo/link available for OVER 100 generally in-stock titles. Custom Craft available upon request. "Book definitely NOT included" When you place your order: Please confirm the actual size of your first edition as sizes may vary with age or if the edition is covered in Mylar. The text can be altered to add "signed" or other special requests.

Early printing of Twainâs first semi-autobiographical work of travel literature, essentially a prequel to The Innocents Abroad. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles to the spine, fully illustrated by eminent artists with wood engravings throughout. Association copy, inscribed by Mark Twain on the fly-leaf, "For Mrs. P. T. Barnum with kindest wishes of Samuel L. Clemens Oct. 1875." The recipient, Nancy Fish, was the second wife of American showman P. T. Barnum. Twain and Barnum were, by various accounts, friends, mutual admirers and rivals. After visiting Barnumâs American Business Museum in New York City as a teenager, Twain criticized it as âone vast peanut standâ yet upon the opening of Barnumâs Hippodrome in 1875, he remarked, âI hardly know which to wonder at mostâ"its stupendousness, or the pluck of the man who has dared to venture upon so vast an enterprise. I mean to come to see the show,â" but to me you are the biggest marvel connected with it.â He alluded to Barnum frequently in both his published works and private correspondence, and although he received many invitations from Barnum to dine in New York, he always declined. Barnum even proposed that the two collaborate on an anthology of âqueer literatureâ based on letters he received from strangers hoping to join his circus, but Twain expressed little interest in the project. In 1867, Twain published âBarnumâs First Speech in Congressâ, a satire of Reconstruction politics that painted Barnum as a ruthless exploiter of the performers he employed. Twain referred to the work as a âspiritual telegraphâ delivered âto [him] in advance from the spirit worldâ and was certain that Barnum would never be elected to high office. Barnum was married to Charity Hallett from 1829 until her death in 1873, and they had four children. In 1874, a few months after his wifeâs death, he married Nancy Fish, his friendâs daughter who was 40 years his junior. They were married until 1891 when Barnum died of a stroke at his home. He was buried in Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, which he designed himself. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An outstanding association copy. Dedicated to Twain's mining companion Calvin H. Higbie, Roughing It follows the travels of young Mark Twain through the Wild West during the years 1861â"1867. After a brief stint as a Confederate cavalry militiaman, Twain joined his brother Orion on a stagecoach journey west. The book also chronicles many of Twain's other early adventures including a visit to Salt Lake City, gold and silver prospecting, real-estate speculation, a journey to Hawaii, and his beginnings as a writer.

ROUGHING IT, Limited Editions Club, 1972, first edition thus, fine in just about fine glassine dust-wrapper save for two small chips and some other slight wear and fine slipcase. 1/1500 copies SIGNED by the illustrator Noel Sickles and design by Ted Gensamer.