The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Twain, Mark
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good-
- Seller
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Palm Springs, California, United States
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About This Item
Early reprint of the 1876 first edition. Octavo. B/W illustrations. Original dark blue cloth stamped in gilt and black. No dust jacket. Good (light rubbing; inner joints cracking). 275 pages.
From the library of noted "Gone With The Wind" Hollywood director George Cukor with his Paul Landacre Bookplate on the front pastedown.
Synopsis
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, is a popular 1876 novel about a young boy growing up in the antebellum South on the Mississippi River in the town of St. Petersberg, based on the town of Hannibal, Missouri.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Houle Rare Books & Autographs (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2222467
- Title
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Author
- Twain, Mark
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The American Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Hartford, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1899
- Pages
- 275
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
This Book’s Categories
- Children & Juvenile Children’s Fiction & Literature
- Fiction & Literature Fiction by Region American Fiction
- Fiction & Literature Classic Literature
- Fiction & Literature Historical Fiction
- Fiction & Literature Individual Authors Mark Twain
- Children & Juvenile Juvenile & Young Adult Juvenile Fiction & Literature Juvenile Classics