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A beautiful hardcover edition in very good condition. Boards are clean throughout — navy blue leatherette to the spine and back with a grey coated front board bearing a gold "MT" monogram in script, and a red spine label with gilt lettering and decorative gilt scrollwork. Pages are clean and unmarked with deckle edges throughout. No dust jacket, as issued. The American Claimant and Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain. Nelson Doubleday Inc., Garden City, New York, circa 1980. Published by arrangement with Harper & Row under the S. L. Clemens / Mark Twain trademark. Part of the Nelson Doubleday six-volume collected works of Mark Twain, printed on quality deckle-edge paper. The American Claimant (1892) is a satirical comedy of mistaken identity; Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) is a darker satire of race and identity set in the antebellum South.
This well-preserved hardcover is near fine, no marks, pages are tight and in good condition. The book is tight, square, and in good condition. In 1955, the Whitman Publishing Company released an edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, featuring illustrations by Paul Frame. Frame's artwork includes both full-page and partial-page monochromatic illustrations in black, white, orange, and green, vividly depicting scenes such as Huck and Jim on a raft drifting down the Mississippi River. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, first published in 1885, is widely regarded as one of the greatest works of American literature and a seminal novel of the Realism movement. A sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the novel follows Huckleberry Finn, a young boy who escapes his abusive father and journeys down the Mississippi River with Jim, a runaway enslaved man seeking freedom. The book remains a literary jewel of American fiction and is often celebrated as The Great American Novel.
This beautiful softcover edition is in fine condition, with crisp, unmarked pages and a firm, clean binding. The Original Illustrated Mark Twain, released by Castle Books in 2001, is a compilation of Mark Twain's classic works, featuring the original illustrations that accompanied the stories during their initial publications. This edition is a nostalgic tribute to Mark Twain's literary genius. The illustrations are faithful reproductions of the ones created for the original 19th-century publications of Twain's works.
This like-new hardcover is near fine, no marks, pages are tight and appear unread, the book is tight, square, and unmarked. The book is one of Mark Twain's earliest and most popular works. Originally published in 1869, this travelogue humorously recounts Twain's observations and experiences during a trip abroad on the steamship Quaker City. The journey included stops in Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Holy Land. This edition is part of the The World's Best Reading series, which features classic works of literature.