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The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
de Mark Twain
- Usado
- good
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Good
- Librería
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Waynesboro, Virginia, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Musson. Three-Quarters Leather. Good. Toronto No date.3/4 leather with gilt at spine. Beautifully illustrated throughout. Marbled endpapers and top edge gilt. Chipping and scuffing to covers especially at spine. Previous owner's name on ffep otherwise clean text.
Sinopsis
Mark Twain was born Samuel Clemens in 1835 in Florida, Missouri, and raised in nearby Hannibal. After apprenticing as a printer, he left home at 18 to travel the world. He returned to captain a Mississippi riverboat for four years, then headed west on a stage coach, filing absurdist travel stories for newspapers along the way—using a river boater's warning for shallow waters as his pen-name. Chased out of San Francisco after reporting on the police chief, he hid in a mining town and overheard a yarn he turned into a successful story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". But true fame came with his 1876 novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer . It's sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , is considered one of the world's great masterpieces. In demand, Twain wrote prolifically and lectured far and wide. He also founded a publishing house, publishing the memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant. But when an investment in an early typewriter failed, he fled the U.S. for Europe—a trip that saw the death of his daughter. His wife died soon thereafter. Twain overcame his financial troubles, but not the loss of his loved ones, and his last writings were dark works stretching beyond his homespun narrative to fantasy, science fiction, and scathing political commentary. He died in 1910.
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- Librería
- Stone Soup Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 55221
- Título
- The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
- Autor
- Mark Twain
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Three-Quarters Leather
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Musson
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Classics;
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Stone Soup Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2015
Waynesboro, Virginia
Sobre Stone Soup Books
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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....
- 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...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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...
