The Stolen White Elephant Etc.
by Twain, Mark
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine copy (very light shelf wear, light remnants of tape on front end paper).
- Seller
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Fair Oaks, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston.: James R. Osgood and Company,, 1882.. First American edition.. Tan cloth over boards, pictorial front cover and spine, stamped in brown and gold. Hardcover. . Near fine copy (very light shelf wear, light remnants of tape on front end paper).. Octavo.. No vestige of signature mark 14. Eighteen medium length sketches, some of which are here published for the first time. Very scarce in this condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BookMine (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 225797
- Title
- The Stolen White Elephant Etc.
- Author
- Twain, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Tan cloth over boards, pictorial front cover and spine, stamped in brown and gold. Hardcover.
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine copy (very light shelf wear, light remnants of tape on front end paper).
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- James R. Osgood and Company,
- Place of Publication
- Boston.
- Date Published
- 1882.
- Pages
- 306 pages + 12 pages of advertisements.
- Size
- Octavo.
Terms of Sale
BookMine
Returnable within 10 days for any reason, with notification.
About the Seller
BookMine
Biblio member since 2004
Fair Oaks, California
About BookMine
The BookMine has been selling quality out-of-print, rare and first edition books since 1984.
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fine
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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....