Rare, Hard-to-Find Books

Edited by

John S. Tuckley

University of California Press

Berkeley and Los Angeles

1967

Hardcover in very good condition, in good jacket. Jacket spine has minor stains.

Hamlin Hill

A narrative, based on new material, of the last ten years in the life of an American literary giant.

Harper & Row, Publishers

New York

Copyright 1973

First edition.

Hardcover in very good condition, in very good jacket.

Justin Kaplan

Simon and Schuster

New York

1966

Second printing

Hardcover in very good condition, no jacket.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) was born in Florida, Missouri, of a Virginian family. The family soon moved to Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain was brought up. At school, accroding to his own words, he “excelled only in spelling”. After his father’s death in 1847, Twain was apprenticed to a printer. Her also started his career as a journalist by writing for the Hannibal Journal. Later Twain worked as a licensed Mississippi river-boat pilot (1857-61). His famous penname Twain adopted from the call (’Mark twain!’ - meaning by the mark of two fathoms) used when sounding river shallows. But this isn’t the full story: he had also satirized an older writer, Isaiah Sellers, who called himself Mark Twain. In 1861 Twain served briefly as a confederate irregular. The Civil War put an end to the steamboat traffic, and during a period when Twain was out of work, he lived in a primitive cabin on Jackass Hill and tried his luck as a gold-miner. “I would have been more or less than human if I had not gone mad like the rest,” he confessed.

$14.95

Chatto & Windus

London

1902

Printed by

Spottiswoode and Co.

London

Hardcover in very good condition, no jacket.

FORMER OWNER NAME,PUBLISHERS ADS IN THE BACK DATED 1902 SOME FOXING

$99.95

Pascoe Thomas

N. Israel / Amsterdam

Da Capo Press / New York

In near fine condition, no jacket as issued.
$49.00

New York

1984

First Viking Edition

Hardcover in very good condition, in very good jacket.

A collection of twelve essays which focus on the relationship between the land and the Native American Indians who respect it while the rest of the country is bent on “environmental desecration and alteration in the name of progress”.
$24.95