A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court

New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1889. First U.S. edition. Publisher's prospectus or salesman's dummy with half-title page, frontis illustration, title page, contents pages, "List of Illustrations" (explaining why there is no list of illustrations); Twain's preface, and a sampling of pages from the text interspersed with full-plate illustrations (versus inset, as they appear in the eventual publication).… Saber más sobre este artículo

Copyright 1917 hardcover as pictured. This is volume 16 only of "The Writings Of Mark Twain". Binding is firm. Green cloth boards with fading gold stamping are rubbed with wear at edges and gently bumped corners. Owner's sticker on FFEP. Edge of text block is soiled and mottled. Text is age tanned but appears otherwise clean and unmarked. No dust… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1889 First edition, first state with "S"-like ornament between "The" and "King" to p. 59. Original publisher's three-quarter brown morocco and pebbled cloth, four raised bands to spine, compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, red marbled endpapers, and marbled text block edges. Very good, with some rubbing to morocco and cloth, 2" split… Saber más sobre este artículo

1917. Harper & Brothers, NEW YORK AND LONDON (1917). Gift Edition. Black cloth over boards, gold lettering, beautiful picture on front cover. VERY GOOD/NODJ. Illustrated by Henry Pitz.. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some… Saber más sobre este artículo

Charles L. Webster. 1890. First edition, mixed second state - no 'S' in illustration page 59 but with broken type on page 72. Original decorated cloth boards, reading 'A Yankee in King Arthur's Court' both upper board and spine. Many b&w illus, dec endpapers, pp 575. Binding heavily shaken, stitching weak, rubbed head and foot of spine. rubbed edges… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1889. Mark Twain wrote A Connecticut Yankee after reading Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur, exploring "a number of implicit parallels between Arthur's England and the American South: slavery; an agrarian economy which came into armed conflict with an industrial economy; a chivalric code which, Clemens said, was secondhand Walter Scott and kept the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899. Hardcover. Very Good. Volume number 16 of the author's national edition, very good maroon cloth hardcover with gilt letter to spine shows mild shelf wear and soil including touch of rubbing at edges and bumping to corners with light fray and bit of rub through, tiny tears at spine ends, hint of exposure… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: The Heritage Press, 1948. Hardcover. Illustrated by Guilbeau, Honoré. 269, [6]pp. Cloth backed boards. Illustrations by Honoré Guilbeau. Introduction by Carl Van Doren. The Heritage Club Sandglass leaflet laid in. A fine copy in near fine slipcase with a touch of fading to edges. ; Quarto.

New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1889. First Edition. Classic novel in which a timeslipped engineer tries to modernize the world of Arthurian legend by means of his knowledge of technology and political economy. He enjoys moderate success before the forces of reaction strike back, with ferocity which brings the dream to an apocalyptic end. Very funny in… Saber más sobre este artículo

Pleasantville, Ny/montreal: The Reader's Digest Association, Inc.. Fine. 1984. Hardcover. 0895771853 . A Fine edition with no blemishing; Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, tells the story of an American, Hank Morgan, who is transported to the time of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Hank is amazed by… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1889. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" by Mark Twain. First edition, with the "S" like ornament present on page 59. Lacking the half-title page and with broken type on page 72. BAL 3429. Published by Charles L. Webster & Company, New York, 1889. Illustrated… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: William Morrow & Co, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Hyman, Trina Schart. 374pp. Light brown pictorial cloth lettered in gold on the spine. With eight inserted plates with color illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman. A fine copy in fine dustjacket with a short crease to front panel. ; Octavo.

New York: P.F. Collier & Son Company, 1917. Hardcover. Very Good. 447p. A navy blue cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Publisher's name starting to wear off bottom of spine. Top corners of front and back cover are mottled. Otherwise clean and tight. Vintage edition of this Twain classic. Illustrated with a few black and white plates.… Saber más sobre este artículo

1889 Mark TWAIN 1st ed Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Magic Novel "The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time." ― Mark Twain A first edition printing of the famous Mark Twain novel, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court." Follow A Yankee engineer from Connecticut who is… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner name dated 1892 on front blank; paper toned as usual; hinges crudely but effectively repaired. Cloth rather clean and bright. Very Good. Publisher's decorated green cloth. Illustrated with plates and engravings. BAL 3429: Fly-title unprinted; second state of page 59 with broken type on page 72.… Saber más sobre este artículo

NY: Heritage Press, 1942. Book. Illus. by Warren Chappel. Very Good. Hardcover. With an foreward by John T. Winterich. Hard Cover. Very Good+ in a Very Good slipcase, no dj as issued. Spine of book sun faded, else fine. Slipcase shows moderate edge wear. Priority and/or international shipping on this item will be extra and will be at actual shipping… Saber más sobre este artículo

Hardcover Cloth 334 pages. Condition Fine Issued with NO dust jacket. Reader's Digest World's Best Reading Reprint edition 1984. Attractive light blue buckram boards with 1/4 blue leather spine and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Marker ribbon. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. No shelf wear. Not… Saber más sobre este artículo

Reader's Digest Association, Incorporated, The, 1984. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court, Twain, Mark. Published by Rose Publishing Company, Toronto, Canada, 1890. First Canadian Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 575 pp. with 221 black and white illustrations by Daniel Carter Beard. Olive green cloth boards with blue, black and gilt illustration front and spine, gilt titles front and spinel green patterned endpapers. Inked name… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Heritage Press, 1942. Very Good +/slipcase/very Good. Chappell, Warren. New York: Heritage Press, 1942. Very Good +/slipcase/very Good. Chappell, Warren. Bound in red cloth with top edge stained red. Spine is darkened, no other flaws. Illustrated throughout in b&w Green slipcase firm with shelfwear at adge.