Rare, Hard-to-Find Books

Edited and with a Preface by Gunther Stuhlmann
Volume 4
1944-1947
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.
New York
1971
First edition
third printingHardcover in very good condition, in very good jacket
Jacket in brodart protective sleeve

 

$19.95

Edited and with a Preface by Gunther Stuhlmann
Volume 2
1934-1939
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.
New York
1967Hardcover in very good condition, in very good jacket
Jacket in brodart protective sleeve 
 

$19.95

 

 

Edited and with a Preface by Gunther Stuhlmann
Volume 5
1947-1955
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.
New York
1974
fourth printing
Hardcover in very good condition, in very good jacket
Jacket in brodart protective sleeve.
 

$19.95

 

Edited and with a Preface by Gunther Stuhlmann
Volume 6
1955-1966
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.
New York
1976
Second printing
Hardcover in very good condition, in very good jacket
Jacket in brodart protective sleeve.

$19.95

 

 

Random House

New York

1975

First Edition, second printing

Hardcover in very good condition, in very good jacket.

“Richly illustrated throughout with cartoons, photographs, drawings, decorations, and memorabilia, and with a jacket drawn especially for the book by Charles Addams, Here at the New Yorker, is as delightful to the eye as it is entertaining to its reader.

$9.95

by

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.

Excerpt from review:

Reviewed by Chris Freeman

“Comedians, in whatever media they work, are supposed to be essentially tragic figures who sublimate their grief in laughter” (Hill ix). With this statement, Hamlin Hill begins his acknowledgements in Mark Twain: God’s Fool–a biography detailing the last ten years of Samuel Clemens’ life. Certainly, the image of Twain as an ultimately tragic figure is neither the one held by popular American culture, nor is it the image on which we have focused in class. Despite his financial troubles in the later years of his life, Twain remains a light-hearted humorist in the eyes of America. His unkempt hair and famous white suits suggest grandfatherly warmth, not the trappings of a misanthropic cynic. However, in Mark Twain: God’s Fool, Hamlin Hill chronicles the last decade of Clemens’ life and reveals the complexity and tragedy that surround his final years: the death of his wife and one of his daughters, his failed business prospects, and the slow end of his literary career.
$19.95

A Biography

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

Title: American Nights Entertainment
Author:Grant Overton
Price: US$25.00

Details: Overton, Grant: American Nights Entertainment, D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1923. First Printing, September 1923. In good condition, no jacket. Spine ends rough. �Galsworth, Conrad, Arthur Train, Miss Sackville-West, Harold Bell Wright, Ralph Connor, Mr. Tarkington, Miss Zona Gale, Gene Stratton-Porter, Christopher Morley, Lothrop Stoddard. Book No. 26049 $25.00.