THE MEZZANINE
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book.
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THE MEZZANINE
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book.
A SURVEY
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-1/4") bound in cloth-backed boards. Illustrated with 51 tipped-in caricature plates.
THE SPANISH LADIE and Two Other Stories from Cervantes Translated from the Original by James Mabbe 1640 and Newly Illustrated by Douglas Percy Bliss
London: Oxford University Press/Humphrey Milford, 1928. Douglas Percy Bliss. New Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-1/4") in an unsigned artist's binding in full navy blue and brown morocco leather with gilt-ruled covers, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt. Translated by James Mabbe and illustrated by Douglas Percy Bliss.
TLS to actress Irene Worth on MARK TWAIN JOURNAL stationery
Kirkwood, MO: 26 Oct. 1977. 1 pages. In full: "In recognition of your outstanding contribution to the Modern Stage, you have been unanimously elected in succession to the late Katharine Cornell, Honorary Member/The Mark Twain Society."
PRUE AND I
New York: Dix, Edwards & Co., 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Original blue cloth. BAL 4270: Binding A. Johnson High Spot. Dedicated to Mrs. Henry W. Longfellow. Curtis, editor of HARPER'S WEEKLY during the Civil War years and one of the most influential American journalists of any day, also was known.....
THE DICK GIBSON SHOW
New York: Random House, (1971). First Edition. The subject of this comic novelist's fourth book is the apprenticeship of an itinerant radio personality. This copy is INSCRIBED by the author to his mother: "For Mother,/Who had the good/character to change/my life--/Love,/ Stanley."
STYLE. A TALE IN THIRTEEN CHAPTERS
(1891). A. B. Frost. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong Folio (12" x 10-1/2") bound in modern full rust-colored morocco leather with gilt rules to the covers and gilt lettering on the front cover and spine, housed in a clamshell box with gilt-lettered morocco spine. A collection of 18 ORIGINAL INK-AND-PENCIL DRAWINGS.....
A COMIC HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
New York: American Book Exchange, 1880. Early Edition. Hardcover. Decorated cloth. Illustrated with silhouettes and engravings.
THE FIGHT AT DAME EUROPA'S SCHOOL
New York: Francis B. Felt & Co., (1871). Thomas Nast. First Edition. Hardcover. Original terra cotta cloth with gilt lettering. With 33 illustrations by Thomas Nast.
THE FIGHT AT DAME EUROPA'S SCHOOL
New York: Francis B. Felt & Co., (1871). Thomas Nast. First Edition. Hardcover. Original terra cotta cloth with gilt lettering. With 33 illustrations by Thomas Nast.
KNITTING-WORK: A WEB OF MANY TEXTURES, WROUGHT BY RUTH PARTINGTON
Boston: Brown, Taggard & Chase, 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. Original blue cloth. BAL 17556: Binding A. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 7 plates. Mrs. Partington was Mark Twain's model for Aunt Polly in TOM SAWYER. Bookplate of Lt. Col. Walter Merriam Pratt on the front pastedown.
CARICATURE AND OTHER COMIC ART In All Times and Many Lands
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound by Bayntun in 3/4 red morocco leather (6-1/2" x 9-1/4") with gilt-ruled covers, gilt-decorated and lettered spines with five raised bands, top edge gilt; original gilt-decorated green cloth covers and spine bound in at the rear. Over 200 black-and-white illustrations.....
ARCHIVE OF 17 LETTERS
1974 - 1978. Letter. Superb collection of letters by the great humorist late in life (He died in 1979) all addressed to "Diane" [Diane Daniels, whom Perelman dated after the death in 1970 of his wife, Laura, sister of Nathaniel West, from 1974 until the beginning of 1979 when she.....
THE ILLITERATE DIGEST
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth. Illustrated with drawings. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper nearly filling the page: "To/J.C. Calhoun/a Friend/from/Will Rogers/(almost an author)/New York. Nov 15, 24." Rogers was born in Indian Territory in 1879 and had some.....
ROGERS-ISMS. THE COWBOY PHILOSOPHER ON PROHIBITION
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1919). Nate Collier. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorated green and white boards lettered in black. Illustrated with a frontispiece of Rogers. The great American humorist's take on Prohibition. SIGNED "Will Rogers" with the notation "Sincerely yours" by the author on the front endpaper. Rogers was born.....
LIFE AND SAYINGS OF MRS. PARTINGTON AND OTHERS OF THE FAMILY
New York/Boston: J. C. Derby/Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Original brown cloth. BAL 17540: State 1, Imprint A. Wright II #2208. Illustrated with 8 plates & text engravings. A collection of comic pieces including a brief chapter on Daguerrotypes. In 1851, Shillaber became the founding editor of.....
ON A MEXICAN MUSTANG, THROUGH TEXAS, FROM THE GULF TO THE RIO GRANDE
Hartford: S. S. Scranton & Company, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorated mustard cloth with fancy gilt designs on the front cover and spine; 672 pages. Illustrated with many plates and facsimiles. Sixguns 2174; Adams HERD 2217: "Scarce"; Jenkins BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 201: "the best volume of 19th century Texas humor.".....
ORIGINAL SIGNED DRAWING
James Thurber. Framed Drawing. Large Original Pencil Drawing (36" x 24") of two couples dancing SIGNED by the artist, simply framed. This drawing was used on the cover of HARPER'S MAGAZINE Centennial Issue, October 1950, No.1205. Not in Bowden's bibliography of Thurber. A scarce and very large iconic drawing by.....
THE CRUISE OF THE KAWA: WANDERINGS IN THE SOUTH SEAS
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1921). First Edition. Hardcover. A humorous and fictitious travel account, a parody of the usual Polynesian idyll. Illustrated with photographs.
MARK TWAIN'S SKETCHES, NEW AND OLD
Hartford & Chicago: American Publishing, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Original decorated blue cloth. Second State of the text. An early collection of 63 sketches by Twain, illustrated throughout. BAL 3364.
PUNCH, BROTHERS, PUNCH! AND OTHER SKETCHES
New York: Slote, Woodman & Company, (1878). First Edition. wraps. Publisher's printed pictorial orange wraps. BAL 3378: "Second Edition," though second printing might be more accurate.
PUNCH, BROTHERS, PUNCH! AND OTHER SKETCHES
Edinburgh: E. & S. Livingstone, [1878]. First British Edition. stiff wraps. Bound in original stiff green wraps rebacked with cloth retaining most of the original spine. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front free endpaper "To Rev. R. Eden, With the author's kindest regards. Mark Twain Sept. 5/78." According to BAL.....
PUNCH, BROTHERS, PUNCH! AND OTHER SKETCHES
New York: Slote, Woodman & Co., (1878). First Edition. Original pictorial wraps. Publisher's printed orange wraps. BAL 3378: First Printing with all points. Housed in a cloth chemise and matching slipcase with leather label. Leather bookplate on verso of the front wrap.
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THE TRAGEDY OF PUDD'NHEAD WILSON AND THE COMEDY [OF] THOSE EXTRAORDINARY TWINS
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's decorated rust brown cloth. With all first printing points described in BAL 3442. Profusely illustrated in the margins. Notable of course for its very early use of fingerprints in fiction to solve a crime, but also one of Twain's most philosophical.....