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Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: Volume I: 1852-1890
Twain, Mark; Louis J. Budd selected the texts & wrote the notes for this volume.
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- Prima edizione
Da: Mnemosyne, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.Mnemosyne
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EUR 26,51
Spedizione gratuitaSpedito in U.S.A.Quantità: 1 disponibili
Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. CLASSIC: IMPECCABLE: NEW Library of America First Edition hardcover (1992) First Printing, NEW mylar-protected LOA jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $35.00 pub. price at bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW navy-blue rayon-weave Brilliant…a fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & w/ titles & LOA colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW smythe-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & blue-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps w/ blue silk ribbon page-marker bound-in from top, NEW white-on-blue LOA-logo-patterned card-stock front & back end-papers, pristine interior printed w/ remarkable clarity in 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB acid-free Ecusta Nyalite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.42, 0.69 kg, 1076 pp. * CONTENTS: Selections presented year-by-year (1-948); Chronology (949), Note on the Texts (998), Notes (1025), Index of Titles (1073) * ABOUT THE BOOK: This splendid volume, with its companion, offers the most comprehensive collection ever published of Mark Twain's short writings: the incomparable stories, sketches, burlesques, hoaxes, tall tales, speeches, satires & maxims of America's greatest humorist. Arranged chronologically & containing many pieces restored to the form in which Twain intended them to appear, the volumes show w/ unprecedented clarity the literary evolution of Mark Twain over six decades of his career. The nearly 200 separate items in this volume cover the years from 1852 to 1890. As a riverboat pilot, Confederate irregular, silver miner, frontier journalist & publisher, Twain witnessed the tragicomic beginning of the Civil War in Missouri, the frenzied opening of the West, & the feverish corruption, avarice & ambition of the Reconstruction era. He wrote about political bosses, jumping frogs, robber barons, cats, women's suffrage, temperance, petrified men, the bicycle, the Franco-Prussian War, the telephone, the income tax, the insanity defense, injudicious swearing, & the advisability of political candidates preemptively telling the worst about themselves before others get around to it. Among the stories included here are "Jim Smiley & His Jumping Frog," which won him instant fame when published in 1865, "Cannibalism in the Cars," "The Invalid's Story," & the charming "A Cat's Tale," written for his daughters' private amusement. This volume also presents several of his famous & successful speeches & toasts, such as "Woman? God Bless Her," "The Babies," & "Advice to Youth." Such writings brought Twain immense success on the public lecture & banquet circuit, as did his controversial "Whittier Birthday Speech," which portrayed Boston's most revered men of letters as a band of desperadoes. * The LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic).* SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates.
Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: Volume I: 1852-1890
Twain, Mark; Louis J. Budd selected the texts & wrote the notes for this volume.
- Rilegato
- Prima edizione
Da: Mnemosyne, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.Mnemosyne
Contatta il venditoreVenditore con 5 stelleCondizione: Nuovo
EUR 29,21
Spedizione gratuitaSpedito in U.S.A.Quantità: 1 disponibili
Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. CLASSIC: IMPECCABLE: NEW Library of America First Edition hardcover (1992) First Printing, NEW mylar-protected LOA jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $35.00 pub. price at bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW navy-blue rayon-weave Brilliant…a fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & w/ titles & LOA colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW smythe-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & blue-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps w/ blue silk ribbon page-marker bound-in from top, NEW white-on-blue LOA-logo-patterned card-stock front & back end-papers, pristine interior printed w/ remarkable clarity in 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB acid-free Ecusta Nyalite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.42, 0.69 kg, 1076 pp. * CONTENTS: Selections presented year-by-year (1-948); Chronology (949), Note on the Texts (998), Notes (1025), Index of Titles (1073) * ABOUT THE BOOK: This splendid volume, with its companion, offers the most comprehensive collection ever published of Mark Twain's short writings: the incomparable stories, sketches, burlesques, hoaxes, tall tales, speeches, satires & maxims of America's greatest humorist. Arranged chronologically & containing many pieces restored to the form in which Twain intended them to appear, the volumes show w/ unprecedented clarity the literary evolution of Mark Twain over six decades of his career. The nearly 200 separate items in this volume cover the years from 1852 to 1890. As a riverboat pilot, Confederate irregular, silver miner, frontier journalist & publisher, Twain witnessed the tragicomic beginning of the Civil War in Missouri, the frenzied opening of the West, & the feverish corruption, avarice & ambition of the Reconstruction era. He wrote about political bosses, jumping frogs, robber barons, cats, women's suffrage, temperance, petrified men, the bicycle, the Franco-Prussian War, the telephone, the income tax, the insanity defense, injudicious swearing, & the advisability of political candidates preemptively telling the worst about themselves before others get around to it. Among the stories included here are "Jim Smiley & His Jumping Frog," which won him instant fame when published in 1865, "Cannibalism in the Cars," "The Invalid's Story," & the charming "A Cat's Tale," written for his daughters' private amusement. This volume also presents several of his famous & successful speeches & toasts, such as "Woman? God Bless Her," "The Babies," & "Advice to Youth." Such writings brought Twain immense success on the public lecture & banquet circuit, as did his controversial "Whittier Birthday Speech," which portrayed Boston's most revered men of letters as a band of desperadoes. * The LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic).* SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates.
Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays (Complete in Two Volumes, Boxed): Volume I: 1852-1890, Volume II: 1891-1910
Twain, Mark; Louis J. Budd selected the texts & wrote the notes for these volumes.
- Rilegato
- Prima edizione
Da: Mnemosyne, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.Mnemosyne
Contatta il venditoreVenditore con 5 stelleCondizione: Nuovo
EUR 68,75
Spedizione gratuitaSpedito in U.S.A.Quantità: 1 disponibili
Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. CLASSIC: IMPECCABLE: NEW Library of America First Edition hardcovers (1992) First Printings, Two-Volume BOXED set in NEW black-laminated LOA box, NEW mylar-protected LOA jackets w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing current $35.00 pub. prices at bottom-righ…t inside-front flyleaf, NEW navy-blue rayon-weave Brillianta fabric-over-boards covers w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & w/ titles & LOA colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exteriors, NEW smythe-sewn bindings w/ tight signatures & blue-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps w/ blue silk ribbon page-markers bound-in from top, NEW white-on-blue LOA-logo-patterned card-stock front & back end-papers, pristine interiors printed w/ remarkable clarity in 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB acid-free Ecusta Nyalite archival paper * VOLUME I: 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.42, 0.69 kg, 1076 pp. * CONTENTS: Selections presented year-by-year (1-948); Chronology (949), Note on the Texts (998), Notes (1025), Index of Titles (1073) * ABOUT THE BOOK: VOLUME I: This splendid volume, with its companion, offers the most comprehensive collection ever published of Mark Twain's short writings: the incomparable stories, sketches, burlesques, hoaxes, tall tales, speeches, satires & maxims of America's greatest humorist. Arranged chronologically & containing many pieces restored to the form in which Twain intended them to appear, the volumes show w/ unprecedented clarity the literary evolution of Mark Twain over six decades of his career. The nearly 200 separate items in this volume cover the years from 1852 to 1890. As a riverboat pilot, Confederate irregular, silver miner, frontier journalist & publisher, Twain witnessed the tragicomic beginning of the Civil War in Missouri, the frenzied opening of the West, & the feverish corruption, avarice & ambition of the Reconstruction era. He wrote about political bosses, jumping frogs, robber barons, cats, women's suffrage, temperance, petrified men, the bicycle, the Franco-Prussian War, the telephone, the income tax, the insanity defense, injudicious swearing, & the advisability of political candidates preemptively telling the worst about themselves before others get around to it. Among the stories included here are "Jim Smiley & His Jumping Frog," which won him instant fame when published in 1865, "Cannibalism in the Cars," "The Invalid's Story," & the charming "A Cat's Tale," written for his daughters' private amusement. This volume also presents several of his famous & successful speeches & toasts, such as "Woman? God Bless Her," "The Babies," & "Advice to Youth." Such writings brought Twain immense success on the public lecture & banquet circuit, as did his controversial "Whittier Birthday Speech," which portrayed Boston's most revered men of letters as a band of desperadoes. * VOLUME II: 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.42, 0.70 kg, 1050 pp * CONTENTS: Selections presented year-by-year (1-938); Appendix: More Maxims of Mark (939), Chronology (949), Note on the Texts (998), Notes (1016), Index of Titles (1049) * ABOUT THE BOOK: A collection of Twain's writings from his later years includes first-rate pieces that should be better known, as well as previously uncollected works that reflect the inner workings of one of the keenest minds in American history * TWO VOLUME BOXED SET, COMPLETE: 5.34" x 8.34" x 2.92, 1.62 kg, 1076+1050 (2126) pp * The LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. This acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic).* SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates.
