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The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain
by Mark Twain (Charles Neider, Editor)
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- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
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About This Item
Doubleday & Co., Inc., N. Y, 1957. Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. DJ design full color by Daniel Schwartz. DJ lightly sunned on spine. One inch tears on DJ from header,tail and back outside edge. Book Club Edition. A solid spine with no edge rubbings or bumped corners. The Dust jacket is not price clipped. 676 pp, clean and unmarked. Text has green top edge and roughcut fore-edge, pages lightly yellowed typical of age. No prior owner attribution. Volume is comprised of 60 stories arranged chronologically. No evidence book has ever been read. Nearly new condition.
Synopsis
Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835. He gained national attention as a humorist in 1865 with the publication of "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," but was acknowledged as a great writer by the literary establishment with The Adventures Of Huckleberry Fin n (1885). In 1880, Twain began promoting and financing the ill-fated Paige typesetter, an invention designed to make the printing process fully automatic. At the height of his naively optimistic involvement in the technological "wonder" that nearly drove him to bankruptcy, he published his satire, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889). Plagued by personal tragedy and financial failure, Mark Twain spent the last years of his life in gloom and exasperation, writing fables about "the damned human race."
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100104
- Title
- The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain
- Author
- Mark Twain (Charles Neider, Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Green boards with off-white spine. Author signature on front cover and title and author on spine embossed in silver. Hinges ti
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Humor,
- Size
- 5 3/4 X 8 1/2
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I am making available selections from my collection of eclectic, historical and sometimes rare books. My collection includes historical novels, cookbooks, textbooks and children's books along with other ephemera.
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- Sunned
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- Book Club Edition
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- Fine
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- Spine
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- Price Clipped
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- New
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- Jacket
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