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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
by Clemens, Samuel L. [Mark Twain]
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Heritage Press, 1948. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover, quarto, bound in mustard yellow cloth with spine lettered in red, over blue paper covered boards. 275 pages. Original preface by Twain and introduction by Carl Van Doren. Illustrated throughout with line drawings by Honore Guilbeau. Sandglass laid-in. Presumed first edition thus. Previous owner's small book-plate affixed to inside front cover. Very mild age darkening to spine. else book is clean, square, tight and unmarked. Slipcase is solid but shows chipping to paper at joints and tips. Very good in a still good slipcase. Media mail only. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018930
- Title
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- Author
- Clemens, Samuel L. [Mark Twain]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Publisher
- Heritage Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- American 19th Century Literature, Heritage Press
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
Terms of Sale
Great Expectations Rare Books
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
We carry a general stock of antiquarian books with a focus on Charles Dickens, 19th and 20th century literature, history and biography.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Laid-in
- "Laid In" indicates that there is something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper. The...
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