![Samuel L.] [Clemens](/images/upload/authors_104_1.jpg)
Price: $1,000
New York: Slote, Woodman & Co, [1878]. First edition: title page with author’s name written in roman, letters missing from p 91, line 4, and 13 lines on p 101. Includes the following: “Punch, Brother, Punch;” “Speech on the Weather...;” “Rogers;” “Map of Paris (with Map);” “Random Notes of an..... Read More Item Details for Punch, Brothers, Punch! And Other Sketches by Mark Twain Add to Wish List
Item #55543
Price: $200
London: Chatto & Windus, 1882. First English edition, preceding the American. This copy has May rather than October ads, and all three of the "first state" points listed by Johnson but not confirmed (or denied) by BAL. Because the book was staples rather than sewn, copies in really good condition..... Read More Item Details for The Stolen White Elephant Etc Add to Wish List
Item #52207
Price: $125
New York: Sheldon & Company, [1872]. First edition second state with the advertisements on the copyright page. Read More Item Details for Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance Add to Wish List
Item #39868
Price: $6,000
New York: May 2, 1907. Clemens writes to his middle daughter ("O dear Ashcat"), giving an account of his visit, by Henry H. Roger's yacht Kanawha, to the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Fair: "...we did have a Foggy & gashly time! - after the first day of the fair, which was sunny..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter Signed "Father", to his daughter Clara Clemens, about the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Fair Add to Wish List
Item #376589
Price: $3,000
New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. First American edition, first printing. Upon publication, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was accused of “blood-curdling humor,” immorality, coarseness and profanity. The book nevertheless emerged as one of the defining novels of American literature, prompting Hemingway to declare: “All modern literature comes from..... Read More Item Details for Adventures of Huckleberry Finn … by Mark Twain Add to Wish List
Item #371879
Price: $300
Hartford: The American Pubishing Company, 1874. First edition, mixed state. Although this handsome 3/4 morocco copy bears a title page with the later publication date of 1874, it contains many of the first edition, first issue A points, including: the presence of ads at the rear; Everybody's Friend described in..... Read More Item Details for The Gilded Age a Tale of Today by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner Add to Wish List
Item #369661
Price: $4,000
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1924. First edition, with “First Edition” and “H-Y” (August, 1924) on copyright page. With signatures of "SL Clemens / Mark Twain" and "Alfred Bigelow Paine tipped in to the half-title of the first volume. Read More Item Details for Mark Twain's Autobiography. With an introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine Add to Wish List
Item #366285
Price: $4,500
New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. First American edition, first printing. Upon publication, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was accused of “blood-curdling humor,” immorality, coarseness and profanity. The book nevertheless emerged as one of the defining novels of American literature, prompting Hemingway to declare: “All modern literature comes from..... Read More Item Details for Adventures of Huckleberry Finn … by Mark Twain Add to Wish List
Item #353125
Price: $350
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1942. #185 of 1500 signed by the Artist. Read More Item Details for Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Edited with an Introduction by Bernard DeVoto Add to Wish List
Item #352826
Price: $2,500
May 7, 1900. Clemens writes from their home in London to Mr. Howard, declining an invitiation to spend time at his country estate, citing his daughter's health ahead of their return trip to the United States, May 7, 1900 Dear Mr. Howard: It would be such rest & refreshment for..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, signed, "S.L. Clemens" to Mr. Howard, rejecting the offer of a stay in England Add to Wish List
Item #346671
Price: $300
London: Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly, 1875. "Sam Clemens interviews Mark Twain" was an idea for a sketch that Mark Twain proposed in his journal near the end of his career. He never wrote that. For a volume titled Lotos Leaves, edited by John Brougham and John Elderkin and issued in..... Read More Item Details for Mark Twain's 'An Encounter with an Interviewer' [excerpted from Lotos Leaves; London, 1875] Add to Wish List
Item #345897
Price: $250
Boston: North American Review, 1905. Read More Item Details for Concerning Copyright. An Open Letter to the Register of Copyrights; North American Review, No. 578 [January, 1905] Add to Wish List
Item #345896
Price: $2,100
Boston: James R. Osgood & Co, 1882. First American edition. Read More Item Details for The Prince and the Pauper. A Tale for Young People of All Ages by Mark Twain Add to Wish List
Item #338570
Price: $350
[New York]: [Privately Printed by] John and Joe Fleming, [1975]. First separate edition. Scarce [OCLC locates only one copy: Minneapolis Public Library]. Read More Item Details for Legend of the Castle by Mark Twain Add to Wish List
Item #334657
Price: $1,500
[No Place]: Privately Printed for Private Distribution Only, [No Date but circa 1910?]. First edition, Number 90 to 195 numbered copies. "The item appeared first in the New York Journal, June 22-23, 1897. The frontispiece engravings of the procession did not appear in the Journal article but the illustrated absurdities..... Read More Item Details for QUEEN VICTORIA'S JUBILEE. The Great Procession of June 22, 1897, In the Queen's Honor, Reported Both in the Light of History, and As A Spectacle, by Mark Twain Add to Wish List
Item #333568
![Item #333458 OLD TIMES ON THE MISSISSIPPI. [including]: ( A Literary Nightmare). Samuel L. Clemens](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/333458.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1652127316)
Price: $400
Toronto: Belford Brothers, 1876. First edition, second (?) printing; BAL 3368, Reprint A, in unrecorded blue cloth binding [noted only in a single green cloth binding by Blanck (FCW)], with following points (conforming to BAL): title page set in roman and arabic, title set in three lines, with publisher's device..... Read More Item Details for OLD TIMES ON THE MISSISSIPPI. [including]: ( A Literary Nightmare) Add to Wish List
Item #333458
Price: $350
New York: Slote, Woodman & Co, [1878]. First edition, second issue, second wrappered binding [see BAL 3378]. Read More Item Details for Punch Brothers Punch and Other Sketches Add to Wish List
Item #333399
![Item #326891 Gripsack Gleanings ... No. 3 [wrapper title] ... The Fun Library is a Collection of...](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/326891.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1752010971)
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Boston: J.H. and A.L. Brigham, [1887]. "Mr. Mark Twain. He tells about a very fast horse he once drove" p. 7. "Uncle Dan'l and the Chillun. From Mark Twain's 'Gilded age'" p. 29. "Opening remarks in Mark Twain's lecture" p. 54. "Mark Twain's wooing" p. 61. Read More Item Details for Gripsack Gleanings ... No. 3 [wrapper title] ... The Fun Library is a Collection of Humorous Stories, Ludicrous Incidents of Travel, Anecdotes and Fun Items from Brightest Sources of Current Wit and Humor Add to Wish List
Item #326891
Price: $5,000
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. First edition, first state binding. The first part of this work, A True Story, was first published in the Atlantic in November 1874. The story is a retelling of the experiences of Mary Ann Cord (renamed “Aunt Rachel” in the story), the African-American..... Read More Item Details for A True Story, and the Recent Carnival of Crime. By Mark Twain Add to Wish List
Item #324788
Price: $1,750
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1882. First edition, First issue with the Franklin imprint on the copyright page. Read More Item Details for The Prince and the Pauper A Tale for Young People of all ages. By Mark Twain Add to Wish List
Item #309522
Price: $15,000
New York: 11 October 1903. Excellent and substantial Clemens letter, to John Y. MacAlister (1856-1925), Librarian and Secretary of the Royal Society of Medicine, and a pioneer in education for librarians in Britain. MacAlister was a friend Clemens and a fellow investor in Plasmon. Reading in part: “Thank you for..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, signed ("Mark") to his friend John MacAlister, on securing the return of his copyrights from Bliss and a guaranteed income from Harper’s Add to Wish List
Item #304226
![Item #300613 [1601] Conversation as it was by the social fire-side in the time of the Tudors....](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/300613.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1717173161)
Price: $350
[N.p.]: Imprinted by Ye Puritan Press at Ye Sign of Ye Jolly Virgin, 1601 [i.e., 1916]. Large paper copy, edition of 125 copies on paper watermarked Fabriano. An early printing of Mark Twain's ribald and scatalogical masterpiece, 1601, in facsimile of the first published edition of 1901. Read More Item Details for [1601] Conversation as it was by the social fire-side in the time of the Tudors. From Ye Diary of Ye Cup-bearer to her Maisty Queen Elizabeth Add to Wish List
Item #300613
Price: $250
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1882. First American edition. Read More Item Details for The Prince and the Pauper Add to Wish List
Item #28522
Price: $750
New York: Charles L. Webster, 1892. First edition. Read More Item Details for The American Claimant, by Mark Twain Add to Wish List
Item #267290
Price: $250
np: Privately Printed by a Hell of a Printer, 1930. Read More Item Details for "1601" or Conversation at the social fireside as it was in the time of the Tudors. By Mark Twain Add to Wish List
Item #266667