Half-hours with Great Humorists: The choicest humor of great writers
Belford, Clarke & co., 1889. Hardcover. 224 pages. A very good hardcover copy. Spine faded and fraying at the head. Pages toned.
Belford, Clarke & co., 1889. Hardcover. 224 pages. A very good hardcover copy. Spine faded and fraying at the head. Pages toned.
Univ of California Pr, April 1972. Trade Paperback.
Folio Society, (2000). Hardcover.
Random House Inc, October 2002. Trade Paperback. Featuring the brilliantly drawn Roxanna, a mulatto slave who suffers dire consequences after switching her infant son with her master's baby, and the clever Pudd'nhead Wilson, an ostracized small-town lawyer, Twain's darkly comic masterpiece is a provocative exploration of slavery and miscegenation. Leslie.....
Penguin Classics, September 1969. Trade Paperback. At the beginning of "Pudd'nhead Wilson" a young slave woman, fearing for her infant's son's life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master's. From this rather simple premise Mark Twain fashioned one of his most entertaining, funny, yet biting novels. On its surface, "Pudd'nhead.....
Simon & Schuster, December 1991. Trade Paperback. Mark Twain, the American comic genius who portrayed, named, and in part exemplified America's "Gilded Age," comes alive in Justin Kaplan's extraordinary biography. With brilliant immediacy, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain brings to life a towering literary figure whose dual persona symbolized the.....
Puffin, September 1983. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Puffin, March 2008. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Huckleberry Finn had a tough life with his drunk father until an adventure with Tom Sawyer changed everything. But when Huck's dad returns and kidnaps him, he must escpe down the Mississippi river with runaway slave, Jim. They encounter trouble at every.....
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, February 2000. Trade Paperback. "A book filled with richnesses of humor and tragedy of disappointment and triumph, of sweetness and bitterness, and all in that unsurpassed American prose." --New York Herald Tribune Book Review Mark Twain was a figure larger than life: massive in talent, eruptive.....
University of California Press, November 2010. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. "I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away--to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get.....
National Geographic, September 2005. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. "The writer of our youth is here with his perennial charm and vigor." --The New York Times In 1895, America's most celebrated author embarked on a whirlwind round-the-world lecture tour from Paris to Vancouver, the South Seas, Australia, India, and.....
Library of America, 2002. Hardcover. 1053 pages. First edition (first printing). Subscribers edition. A very good copy in a very good slipcase. "Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand," Mark Twain once wrote. In this sixth volume in The Library of America's authoritative collection of his writings-the final volume.....
Library of America, 1984. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. This Library of America volume contains the novels that, when published, transformed an obscure Western journalist into a national celebrity. The Innocents Abroad and Roughing It (sometimes called The Innocents at Home) were immensely successful.....
Modern Library, February 2003. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. In it, the collision of the American "New Barbarians" and the European "Old World" provides much comic fodder.....
Bernard Tauchnitz, 1879. Trade Paperback. 335 pages plus 32 pages of ads. From the Collection of British Authors, Vol. 1813. 'Authoirized edition.' Very good in printed wrappers (paperback). Stamp of bookseller in blue on front cover. Some mild soiling to covers.
Dover Publications, June 1971. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Smiley was surprised and disgusted, but he not himself doubted not of the turn being intended. The individual empocketed the silver, himself with it went, and of it himself in going is it that he no gives not a......
Library of America, November 1982. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Here for the first time in one volume are the most famous and characteristic of Mark Twain's works. Through each of them runs the powerful and majestic Mississippi. The river represented for Twain the.....
Book Sales, April 2001. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). With over 450 original illustrations, the wonderful collection of Twain's classics includes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Prince and the Pauper, plus 29 short stories.
The Heritage Press, January 1972. Hardcover.
Barnes & Noble. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Tree By The River Publishing Trust, 1993. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
Whitman ublishing Company, 1931. Hardcover.
McLoughlin Bros. 1940. Hardcover. 92 pages. Illustrated by A. Rusk. A 'Little Big Classic.' A near fine copy in pictorial boards.
Apple (Scholastic), July 1999. Trade Paperback.
Russell & Russell, Inc., 1963. Hardcover. [i]-cxix, 278 pages. About 8 by 10-1/2 inches. A list of nearly 8,000 words from Twain's writings. Listed alphabetically and classified in categories such as Americanisms, New Words, and Archaisms. Each entry includes an example from Twain's published works. A near fine copy in.....