Twains Scrap Book by Twain Mark (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Quarto, approx 100 leaves designed for glueing paper items to each page by lightly dampening the glue strip. A very good copy in 3/4 leather and marbled boards. 3 pages with a picture original tissue guards present on many pages. Nice condition for this book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. Mark Twain's Scrap Book. Early edition in original red cloth binding. Publisher: Daniel Slote & Co., 1881.Binding is in near fine condition. Binding is blind-stamped with leaves and banner stating "Scrap Book". Contents clean without anything mounted on the pre-glued pages. Pages Some evidence of page removal, but contents clean. 76 numbered pages. Four blank pages of index ruled and lettered. 7 ¾ x 10 inches. A Nice copy of a Twain scarce item. BAL 2614. Inventory #26-028. Price: $275.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Quarto. Quarter cloth and marbled papercovered boards. Binding loose but sound, rubbed and bumped, small tears at the spine ends, very good, each page being filled with newspaper clippings. This is an item patented by Twain, with the label.

Quarto, original 3/4 cloth & marbled boards, [76] pp. Twain (Clemens) patented the scrapbook, and it became one of his best-known productions. The label inside the front cover is one of several varients, this one printed in blue and silver. The pages of the book contain clippings from the period 1891 - 1910. Very Good, solid. Literature, American Culture, Americana. KHS - X55.…

Patented June 24, 1873, by Saml L. Clemens. Illustr ad on free front endpaper, 10 x 7.5, blindstamped brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 100 pp. Front cover detached, covers worn, soiled, spotted, corners and spine tips bumped, worn and fraying, small hole on spine cover and small tear on lower edge of rear outer hinge, contents have glue stains, free front endpaper becoming detached, seven pages have newspaper clippings (mainly poetry) attached else good. On free front endpaper is an advertisement for "Mark Twain's Patent scrap book. "I have invented . . . A new Scrap Book, not to make money out of it, but to economise the profanity of this country . . . when the average man wants to put something in his scrap book he can't find his paste, then he swears . . . the result is barrels and barrels of profanity. This can all be saved . . . simply by substituting my self-pasting Scrap Book for the old-fashioned one.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. [Pavlova] 12 x 10", blindstamped blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 6 page index + 76 numbered pages. Covers well worn, rubbed, soiled, spine and corners bumped, lettering rubbed, textblock loose, lacks the interleaving leaves and stubs, toned, glue stains else good condition. A previous (unknown) owner pasted in playbill clippings from plays, operas, ballets that played in San Francisco c. 1904-1911 (not many are dated). Performers include Maude Adams, Nazimova, John Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, George M. Cohan, (Luisa) Tetrazzini, Al Jolson, Basil Rathbone, Pavlova. Each page has at least 3-4 individual performance clippings which include Ziegfeld Follies of 1910, Man And Superman, Dolls House. Mark Twain enjoyed creating his own scrapbooks but was annoyed with trying to glue the various pieces of paper so he created and patented scrapbooks that had gummed pages. This particular "Perforated Interleaved Scrap Book" was first patented in 1892. The scrap books were published circa 1877-1902.…

First Edition. MARK TWAIN'S SCRAP BOOK, Daniel Slote & Co., 1892, some light soil to the rear panel, else a just about fine unused copy. Rare thus.