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  Tom Sawyer

  Published by American Publishing Company, 1876

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  Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by Mark Twain on a laid in card. This First Printing book has all the First Issue points; printed on wove paper, with the half-title and frontispiece printed on separate leaves. Note: First Edition, second issue books are printed on laid paper with the frontispiece printed on same page of half-title page. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp with some wear to the panels. The pages are clean with minor wear to the edges. There is no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a lovely copy SIGNED by the author. Includes a custom acetate dustjacket to protect the book. We buy SIGNED Mark Twain First Editions. Signed by Author(s).

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  Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing with the half-title and frontispiece printed on separate leaves and printed on wove paper instead of laid paper. This FIRST ISSUE book is bound in the ORIGINAL Blue Cloth boards with light restoration to the spine. The binding is tight, with some wear to the edges. The pages are clean with some staining to a few pages. There is NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION with ALL the First Issue points. We buy Mark Twain First Editions.

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  First American Edition. Octavo. The first issue with the publisher's ads dated December 1, 1876. Illustrated, triple leaves in front on laid paper, one with a portrait illustration of Mark Twain mounted to the second free end paper, text printed on wove paper with two end sheets at rear on laid paper but with the publisher's [4] pp. catalog at rear half-title(verso blank), [ii-iii]-xvi, 274 [1]pp. Bound in the scarce full sheep, raised bands ruled in gilt, black morocco spine label gilt, peach endpapers, possibly rebacked at an early date but clearly the joints had been strengthened (20th century), (we say possibly rebacked because it was so remarkably fine, we are unable to tell if it truly was rebacked), internally clean and bright without names, bookplates, or foxing. A very handsome copy housed within an early custom slipcase of half blue morocco over blue cloth, blue cloth chemise lined with felt. A remarkably clean copy. [BAL-3369].

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  Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Issue printed on wove paper with the half title page printed on a separate leaf that is blank on the verso. The book is bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's blue cloth with light wear to the boards. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely UNRESTORED copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION in collector's condition.

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  Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Octavo. Original red cloth with border and cover design blocked in black and lettering in gilt, cream coated endpapers. Housed in a blue quarter morocco solander box. The true First edition, published on 9 June, thus preceding the first American edition that appeared in mid-December by some six months. Twain chose to have the book published first in London to ensure copyright and perhaps also because he was more highly esteemed in Britain than at home. Oxford conferred an honorary doctorate on Twain in 1907, three years before his death, an honor grander than any he ever received in America. BAL 3367.

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  Hardcover. First American Edition. FIRST PRINTING on wove paper and with half-title and frontispiece with blank versos and with "THE" on the half-title page in 10-point rather than 14-point type. Original blue cloth with peach endpapers with front and rear triple flyleaves of laid paper; four pages of ads at the rear. BAL 3369. MacDonnell, 39-40. Illustrated by True Williams and others. Two pages with professional repairs to tears; hinges unbroken and covers tight. Light edgewear with some rubbing and wear to the spine. Easily Very Good.

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  Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First American edition, first printing, first issue; printed on wove paper, the half-title and preface versos blank, triple flyleaves on laid paper and pale peach endpapers. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth stamped in black and gilt. Very Good, spine rebacked and repaired at ends, erased pencil to front free endpaper and blank facing half-title, pages thumbed and soiled, and with a handful of lower marginal corners torn away. Housed in a custom slipcase.

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  Condition: Very Good. First edition. First printing, with the half-title and the frontis illustration on separate leaves. Collates complete as per BAL 3369 with the triple fly-leaves on laid paper, front and back, and four pages of publisher's ads following the novel. A copy that has benefitted from some discrete restoration at the spine ends (adding a bit of new cloth), and cosmetic repairs to the corners. Attractive condition internally, with only the occasional spot of foxing. One of the classic American novels, Twain's bildungsroman follows the adventures of Tom Sawyer - and his friend Huck Finn -- in St. Petersburg, Missouri. Told with Twain's characteristic and unmatchable wit and humor, it would become his best-selling book and its sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is arguably the greatest American novel of all time. "Mr. Samuel Clemens has taken the boy of the Southwest for the hero of his new book. and has presented him with a fidelity to circumstance which loses no charm by being realistic in the highest degree, and which gives incomparably the best picture of life in that region as yet known to fiction" (Contemporary Atlantic Monthly Review). Very Good.

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  First American Edition, first printing. Publisher�s brown half-morocco; all edges gilt; BAL 3369, noting that only 200 copies were bound thus. Front hinge a little weak; minor rubbing; back cover cloth slightly bubbled; at least very good; in a custom clamshell box.

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  Condition: Very good. First printing. First printing of the classic American children's book about an orphan boy growing up on the banks of the Mississippi River in Missouri, in the expertly restored original cloth binding. While Twain is best known today as the author of canonical children's books like this one and its sequel, HUCK FINN, before TOM SAWYER he was actually famous instead as a travel writer and humorist lecturer. TOM SAWYER was Twain's first novel entirely composed by him (an earlier novel, THE GILDED AGE, was co-authored with his friend Charles Dudley Warner). While it did eventually achieve bestseller status, its initial reception was modest, with a first printing of only 5000 copies. Today its reputation has made it a highly sought rarity in the first printing, as here, and copies in great condition are scarce. Twain bibliographer Kevin MacDonnell summarizes it thus: "This was a true boy's book, and surviving copies are proof of how rough on books little boys can be." 8.5'' x 6.5''. Original blue pictorial cloth elaborately stamped in black and gilt on spine and front board. Peach endpapers, triple fly leaves on laid paper. Publisher's catalogue at rear. [i]-xvi, 17-275, [1], [4] pages. Archival tape repair to long closed tear in gutter of first fly leaf, ink owner name on same leaf and another ink name on title page. Hinges expertly repaired, with some restoration to cloth around corners and toned spine. Faint intermittent soiling to text.

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  Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, second issue with the 1876 date printed on the title page and the frontispiece printed on same page of half-title page. The book is in great shape. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with minor discoloration but NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy bound in the original publisher's blue cloth. We buy Twain First Editions.

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  First US edition, first printing, printed on wove paper, versos of half-title and preface blank. "The irresponsibility, the love of odd adventure, and the sense of natural justice as opposed to the village code, which characterize the heroes of this book and its sequel Huckleberry Finn, presented a sharp contrast to the Sunday School or rags-to-riches literature which was then the common fare doled out to children. these books let fresh air into the minds of parents who had shut the door on their own childhood, and they will be classics the world over as long as there are boys" (Grolier American 79). BAL 3369; Johnson p. 27; Peter Parley to Penrod 43; Grolier Club, One Hundred Books Famous in Children's Literature, 41. Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco, titles and centre tool to spine gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, inner dentelles gilt, burgundy endpapers, gilt edges. Wood engraved frontispiece and numerous illustrations in text by True Williams and others, 4-page publisher's advertisements at end. Small expert paper repair to single corner, pages a little toned, an excellent copy in a fine binding.

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  RARE AND TRUE FIRST PRINTING. The True First Edition, English issue preceding the American issue thus the earliest issue available. 8vo, publisher s original red cloth, ornately decorated on the upper cover and spine in gilt and black. [viii], 341, [1[ pp. Internally quite clean and still fresh, the original red cloth with some general evidence of age, some typical evidence of shelving or use, the original spine panel laid down, a well-preserved copy of this rare book. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF THE SCARCE LONDON ISSUE, PRECEDING THE AMERICAN AND THUS THE EARLIEST ISSUE ATTAINABLE OF THIS GREAT AMERICAN CLASSIC. TOM SAWYER is now considered to be, along with HUCKLEBERRY FINN, one of the great stepping stones to the modern American novel. It, like Whitman s LEAVES OF GRASS and Melville s MOBY DICK, typifies and describes the American spirit. It lies at that very special moment in history when America, having challenged its past sets off on the new adventures that will force it into the coming century and the great expansion of its democratic spirit. To this day, it remains a cornerstone of American literature.

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  First edition, first printing, mixed state of the apotheosis of American boyhood. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over cloth, gilt topstain. In near fine condition with half-title and frontispiece on the same leaf, with 1875 on the copyright page and 1876 on the title page, and with the 10-point type to the word "THE" on the half-title page, four page publishers advertisements at end. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell chemise and box. Popular and controversial at the time of publication in 1876, Mark Twain� s masterpiece The Adventures of Tom Sawyer has been adapted into dozens of film, television and theatrical productions. The quintessential tale of American boyhood established one of the most memorable characters in American literature who appeared in three later sequels including Twain� s other most notable work, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. � The first novel Mark Twain wrote without a co-author, Tom Sawyer is also his most clearly autobiographical novel enlivened by extraordinary and melodramatic events, it is otherwise a realistic depiction of the experiences, people and places that Mark Twain knew as a child� (Rasmussen, 459).

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  Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. A beautiful copy. This attractive second issue book has an important point of 1875 printed on the copyright page, and 1876 on the title page. Later editions have a later year such as 1879. The binding is exceptionally nice, with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy housed in a custom clamshell slipcase for preservation.

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  Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. First impression. 8vo. (7.8 x 5.9 inches). A few small marks to just a handful of pages but generally this is a clean and bright copy throughout. Finely bound in recent full red morocco. Spine with five raised bands. Gilt ruling, lettering and decorations to compartments. Single gilt ruled border on boards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Original publishers decorative front board and spine, which is rubbed and toned, have been bound in at the rear. Overall a very good attractive copy of the true first edition of this classic book. First published in England in order to secure a British copyright, the London edition precedes the American edition by about six months.

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  Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, Second Printing. First edition, second printing, BAL issue A, printed on laid paper. Bound in publisher's blue cloth decorated in black and gilt; all edges gilt. Contents on verso of preface, with the following mispagination present: p. [IX] mispaged XII; p. [X] mispaged XIII; p. [XII] mispaged XVI. Near Fine with light fraying to cloth at corner and spine ends, spine darkened. Front and rear inner hinges slightly exposed, owner name and small bookplate to front endsheet. Pages toned. A fantastic copy of the classic American novel, housed in a custom half-leather slipcase, with leather dried and lacking some chips and cloth lifted along bottom edge. BAL 3369.

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  Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First US edition, first printing. Rare publisher's library sheepskin with original black morocco gilt spine label. Original peach endpapers. A good copy, repaired. Housed in a custom-made slipcase.

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  Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, second state with the 1876 date printed on the title page and the frontispiece printed on same page of half-title page. The book is in great shape. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with minor discoloration but NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy bound in the original publisher's blue cloth. We buy Twain First Editions.

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  Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First English edition, preceding the first American edition by six months. Octavo. [viii], [1]-341, [2] pages. Twentieth Century brown morocco by Zaehnsdorf for E. Joseph with titles stamped in gilt on the front board and between five raised bands on the spine. Gilt floral dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Previous owner "J. R. Minshull Ford 1876" in ink on the title page. A handsome copy in near fine condition.

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  Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First American edition. Quarto. Illustrated. Original blue cloth decorated in black and gilt. Very discreet repair to inner hinge, the slightest dulling to spine, an excellent example of the striking binding.First American Edition, third printing.

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  Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. First edition, first issue with half title and frontis illustraton on separate sheets. Rebound in modern calf in careful imitation of the original, including new salmon color endpapers. All blanks present, front and back. Pages tight and mostly clean, small area of scuffing and minor repairs to frontis. A very good copy.

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  First edition. First Issue. With one-hundred and sixty black and white illustrations of such memorables as Injun Joe, Aunt Polly, Becky Thatcher, and of course Tom Sawyer. Square 8vo, Handsomely bound in half morocco over marbled paper covered boards, the spine with raised bands gilt stopped and ruled, red morocco lettering label gilt. xvi, 275, [4] ads. pp. A very bright and handsome copy. The true first issue with the recto of the frontispiece blank, pages xii, xiii and xvi the only numbered preliminary pages, printed on wove paper and bulking correctly for the first issue. Without the half-title and one preliminary leaf remargined and with some toning to the outer edge of the leaf, some of the expected spotting or mellowing occasionally present. THE IMPORTANT AND RARE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. THIS COPY HANDSOMELY BOUND IN HALF-MOROCCO. THIS GREAT AMERICAN LANDMARK is the first novel in which the hero is a boy and the boy is the hero throughout. TOM SAWYER is now thought to be, along with HUCKLEBERRY FINN, one of the great stepping stones to the modern American novel. It, like Whitman s LEAVES OF GRASS and Melville s MOBY DICK, typifies and describes the American spirit. It lies at that very special moment in history when America, having challenged its past sets off on the new adventures that will force it into the coming century and the great expansion of its democratic spirit. To this day, it remains a cornerstone of American literature. The true first edition, first issue is a much sought after book and it has proven to be a high spot of any great collection of world literature, difficult to obtain and a great prize once one has done so.

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  Condition: Very good. Second printing of first edition. Very good. 1876. Second printing of first edition. First binding with original peach endpapers and triple flyleaves. . First edition, second printing, BAL's "Issue A" with mispagination to preliminaries as called for, and half-title and frontispiece on same leaf. With the ads for books sold by The American Publishing Company on pp. 277-280 labeled "Revised December 1st, 1876". Inner hinges weak, as are a few signatures. Some wear to spine extremities and corners of boards. Nice bright copy. Never "restored" (read mucked with.) Old faint owner's signature on pastedown in sepia ink. BAL 3369 . First binding with original peach endpapers and triple flyleaves.

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  Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. The First Edition Second Printing with the half-title and the frontispiece on the same leaf. According to Johnson, "about the third printing" the last line of the first page of text (page 17) the words furniture to were damaged and remained in the damages state through all subsequent printings from the same plate. The copy on offer does not display this type damage. However, the copy on offer does have the damaged type in evidence at the end of page 202, a point of issue for printings after the first. A crisp, clean copy with no internal markings. Some minor expert restoration including new endpapers, but overLL fine collector's copy in the desirable blue binding. Book.

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  275 [4, ads] pp. Illustrated. 8vo, publisher's full sheep, expertly rebacked in sheep with a new spine and spine label; corners renewed in sheep; original endsheets retained. First edition; third printing. BAL 3369. Front joint cracked; quite rubbed at edges and corners; tight and sound.

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  Hartford [etc.]: The American Publishing Company, 1876. 4 pp ads dated 1 Dec 1876. Original publisher's brown half-morocco, spine decorated in darker brown, with brown cloth boards, all page edges gilt. First American Edition, third printing, in the uncommon half-morocco binding offered by the publisher at extra cost. There were three (and maybe one or two more) printings of TOM SAWYER that were dated 1876 --not so identified. The first printing (on wove paper) is the only one with the half-title and frontispiece on separate adjacent leaves, rather than back-to-back on one leaf. The second printing has them back-to-back, and has several mispaginations among the preliminary leaves; because such copies appear on laid paper, on wove paper, or on a combination of both papers, it is uncertain whether this second state consists of one or two (or even possibly three) printings. The third printing (as here -- the last printing bearing the 1876 date) has the back-to-back leaf and also has only the final preliminary page paginated (xvi). This copy is in the publisher's extra-cost binding of half-morocco with all page edges gilt; the other options, in addition to the standard blue cloth, were cloth with gilt page edges, and "library" (i.e. full sheep). According to the publisher's stock-book (quoted by Blanck), of 9,879 copies delivered by the binder to the publisher between December 8, 1876 and January 8, 1877 (perhaps NOT yet including this third printing), there were 7,431 in standard cloth, 748 in cloth gilt, 1,500 in sheep, and 200 in half-morocco -- so one can infer that copies such as this are not common. As for condition, we would say this copy is very good-plus, though better than that externally, with only minor rubbing at the extremities; the front endpaper is cracked (but the volume is tight), and there is a two-inch closed tear at the top of the title page (which bears an inked signature -- also appearing on the endpaper -- dated in Hot Springs Ark. in 1888). One of the great classics of American literature, as enjoyable today as it was 120 years ago, TOM has become an uncommon book in any state (much less common than HUCKLEBERRY FINN, for example); the first printing in this binding would be a $25,000+ book. Blanck 3369; McBride pp 40-42; a Johnson High Spot ("recognized as one of the supreme portrayals of boy character").

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  Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Frontispiece, Illustrations In Text (illustrator). 1st Edition. Blue Cloth. First Edition. 2 Preliminary Blanks On Laid Paper (One Blank Is Missing), Xvi, [17]-274, [1], [1, Blank], 4 Pp Publisher's Ads Dated "Revised December 1, 1876". Laid Endpapers, Wove Pages, Half Title And Frontispiece Printed On Separate Pages, Contents Page On Right And Not On Back Of Preface Page, Second Page Of Contents Numbered Xii, Third Page Of Contents Numbered Xiii, Second Page Of Illustrations Numbered Xvi. All Edges Gilt.This Book Has Been Read To Pieces: Spine And Front Cover And First Blank Free Endpaper Are Missing, The Entire Binding Is Partly Broken With Many Pages And Signatures Loose, All Pages Worn At Edges With Some Short Tears, Many Pages With Finger-Soiling, Pp 71/72 With Horizontal 4 1/2" Tear Through The Illustrations, And The Upper Corner Of P. 127 Has Been Torn Loose And Is Reattached To The Page With A Pin; All Three Rear Free Blanks, And Peach-Colored Rear Endpapers And Blue Cloth Rear Cover Printed In Black Are Still Present.

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  first edition (variant) [Note points: ffep and blank, followed by half title with frontispiece on verso; "1876" on title with "1875" on verso; second page of Contents paginated "XII," third page "XIII;" second page of Illustrations correctly paginated "XVI;" publishers ads "Revised December 1st, 1876" followed by blank and fep] textblock good; some minor tears, a turned corner here and there, with a smudge or two; laid paper showing age; binding has been repaired; re-backed with original laid on; hinges reinforced; blue cloth and gilt covers well worn, corners rounded; darkened with age and handling, but intact; pagination ends with 274; wood engravings in text; this copy is not for the pecksniffian collector wanting to spend five figures for a mint, unopened example, never touched by human hand; BUT it has a charm of its own, having brought literary excitement to generations of readers for well more than a century; it is a warm copy, well deserving of being read again--and a place on a budget-minded collector's shelf;

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  Hardback. Condition: Very Good and Gilt, Illustrated by illustrated (illustrator). First Edition. Pages Soiled, Original Blue Cloth Front Cover Blocked in Black; first edition with frontispiece/illustration across from title page; "1876"on title with "1875" on verso; second page of Illustrations correctly paginated "XVI;" 4 pages of publishers ads "Revised December 1st, 1876", Only inscription on ffep, "To Charlie Donohue From his Aunt Nellie on his 8th birthday March 8, 1879", PROFESSIONALLY REBOUND WITH ORIGINAL FRONT BOARD AND NEW LEATHER SPINE W/RAISED BANDS, REAR BOARD IS NEW IN MATCHING MARBLED PATTERN!!; 275 pages.

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