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Twain Mark PSUED Samuel Langhorne Clemens 1835 1910ABAA

Life on the Mississippi

1883L0531624 pages with frontispiece and over 300 black and white illustrations. Royal Octavo 9" x 6 1/4" bound in the original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering and pictorial on spine and black and gilt lettering with pictorial to cover. Lacks the illustration of Twain's head in flames on page 441 and the corrected "St Charles Hotel" on page 443. Simultaneously published in 1883 in the United States and Great Britain the book is the first submitted to a publisher as a typewritten manuscript BAL 34II Second state of the first American edition. Twain once remarked that he considered this book his masterpiece the book that would outlive his other works and endure as a classic. Of course Twain once defined a classic as a book everybody talks about but nobody ever reads. At first glance it seems to be a travel book but it is really a highly readable discursive autobiographical account of Twain's boyhood and his region and of a culture that radically changed since he left home 30 years earlier. It makes good reading as background for Huck Finn. The only thing that is known of the printing history is what Twain wrote in 1891: that 50000 copies were printed and bound but only 32000 sold. Implication is that the unsold copies were reissued by Charles L Webster between 1884 and 1891 when he took over Osgood's stock. Copies are found with Osgood's sheets and Webster cancel title-page in Webster bindings dated 1888 and 1891. As a subscription book this book was similar in size to the hefty tomes of the American Publishing Company but the handsome pictorial brown cloth binding ranks with the binding of Huck Finn as one of the best on a Twain first edition. It could be ordered with gilt edges in full sheep three-quarter morocco and three-quarter calf. MacDonald: Firsts. This is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War and also a travel book recounting his trip along the Mississippi River from St. Louis to New Orleans many years after the War. The book begins with a brief history of the river as reported by Europeans and Americans beginning with the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto in 1542. It continues with anecdotes of Twain's training as a steamboat pilot as the 'cub' apprentice of an experienced pilot Horace E. Bixby. He describes with great affection the science of navigating the ever-changing Mississippi River in a section that was first published in 1876 entitled "Old Times on the Mississippi". Although Twain was actually 21 when he began his training he uses artistic license to make himself seem somewhat younger referring to himself as a "fledgling" and a "boy" who "ran away from home" to seek his fortune on the river and playing up his own callowness and naÃ¯vetÃ©. In the second half Twain narrates his trip many years later on a steamboat from St. Louis to New Orleans. He describes the competition from railroads and the new large cities and adds his observations on greed gullibility tragedy and bad architecture. He also tells some stories that are most likely tall tales. In 1980 the book was adapted as a TV movie for American public television with David Knell performing as Sam Clemens and Robert Lansing as Horace Bixby the steamboat pilot who mentored him. The film used many tall tales from the book woven into a fictional narrative. In 2010 Life on the Mississippi was adapted as a stage musical with book and lyrics by Douglas M. Parker and music by Denver Casado. It was produced that year in Kansas City Missouri and Door County Wisconsin. Condition: Recased in original spine some occasional foxing and finger soiling one signature slightly sprung else a very good and bright copy. James R Osgood and Company hardcover books

The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB · États-Unis450,00 $US≈ 380,75 €

MOORE, Olive (pseud of Constance VAUGHAN); BOTZARIS, Sava (frontis portrait); [LAHR, Charles & BRISTOW, Alec (publishers)]Biblio.com

D. H. Lawrence-interest Further Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine

1932279168 Red Lion Street London: Blue Moon Press 1932. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION no. 14 of 99. 4to pp. 34 incl. b/w photographic frontis of Sava Botzaris' sculpture 'Olive Moore' pasted to verso facing title page. Original wood-effect patterned paper boards printed paper label to upper board. Bottom edge untrimmed. Printed on grey paper in black ink first initial green. Slight bend to boards wear to lower extremities corners bruised some darkening and cockling. Signed by Moore in black pen in her minute hand to limitation page. Else clean bright and tight. In the original delicate glassine dust-jacket preserved by a second brown paper one fashioned by PO with hand-written title to spine: worn and torn. Near fine/ good-only Jisc LHD locates 7 copies 5 legal deposit libraries except NLW/LGC UoNottingham & Senate House Library. A rather glorious copy of this fragile and oddly attractive edition of Moore's meditation on D H Lawrence which sold out almost immediately and within a year was "almost impossible to obtain." The elusive British author and journalist Olive Moore pseud. of Miriam Constance Beaumont Vaughan; 1901-1979 described variously as an "enfant terrible of British literature" "a cross between Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes but with a more biting wit" and aptly for this title "the female Lawrence" is perhaps best known for her sudden disappearance from the London literary scene from 1934. Recent scholarship which has significantly swelled knowledge of her later life and work reveals that "despite her rising success and notoriety as a novelist Moore was clearly unhappy": "I feel on the verge of collapse; all day; I weep down streets uncontrolled and unladylike" she wrote to the poet Rex Fairburn in 1932 the year her friends Charles Lahr and Alec Bristow of the Red Lion Bookshop published her Lawrence essay Cavey 2022. Lahr had known Lawrence well and Blue Moon Press had published the first unexpurgated edition of his final poetry collection Pansies three years earlier. 1932 saw a glut of Lawrence-related publications the author having died in 1930. A marked departure from her earlier three novels all published by Jarrolds Further Reflections proved Moore's penultimate literary publication and was included in her final outing the collection of pensées The Apple is Bitten Again Wishart 1934 as she was "sick and tired of being quoted and plagiarised without acknowledgement". The striking photographic frontis featuring Sava Botzaris' sculpture of the author was also reproduced in The Apple Is Bitten Again as well as being reused in the Dalkey Archive Press edition of Moore's Collected Writings 1992. Moore had married the Serbian sculptor in 1924; they separated in the late 1930s and divorced sometime in the following decade. Sophie Cavey 2022 'Olive Moore: A new biography' in Feminist Modernist Studies 5:1 pp. 1-20 Blue Moon Press hardcover

Quair Books · Royaume-Uni325,00 £GB≈ 371,09 €

[James Nisbet & Co, publishers, booksellers, stationers - BBTI restricts dates to 1849 and other confusions) ]:Biblio.com

James Nisbet & Co. publishers Letter Book

50031859 1850 1859 mainly 1850 1859 letters headed 21 Berners Street as is one from 1850. 18 pages used 4to copies on flimsy paper of outgoing letters signed "James Nisbet & Co." poor condition front cover detached one page detached and damaged otherwise text complete and legible. Correspondents include a number of Reverends inc. foreign. Subjects: 1850 They tell author "Lecture" that his work will be in an edition of 3000 and that he has a large credit balance with them anticipating how much profit he will make on "each succeeding thousand" £25 the price. "It is a very handsome volume and in fact does the publishers no discredit"; a meeting of a Mr Turner's creditors; price levels and the need to reduce to sell; negotiations; creditors in "Mr Cork's affair"; their "claim against the Rev. A.J. Hudson"; tardy acceptance of an order South African customer; acknowledgment of payment; prices of bibles influenced by the bindings - he lists examples including "Royal Folio Bible Dble pica Type with Apoc at 5gns"; arrangement of dispatch of periodicals reporting the "North American as out of print" the Galignani to be sent directly from Paris; discussion of "gratuitous help" in the formation of a correspondent's library; they offer to reduce a debt greatly to help a customer who has experienced a serious loss; corresondent not identified but same as first copy letter above they cannot accurately state printing costs without the manuscript but give a detailed estimate: "Supposing the work to be similar to yr second series of Lectures we should say in round underlined figures the cost of 1000 copies wd be about £100 - leaving £10 or £11 to cover the expense of correction & advertising". He suggests that the whole edition would make £160 at 5/- "without deduction for copies for Review &c" but warns him that he should not look for more than £40 profit. He outlines another scenario 1500 copies expenses of distribution and concludes with their wish to purchase the copyright and "taking the risk of an edition" and a postscript giving terms 10% for them after trade price considered - "25 or 24 @ 3/7"; they sent a catalogue to Dr Taylor Madras and give terms - order with remittance discount of 25% over £10 welcoming lsarge export orders for anything but law books; they ask David D. Scott" to return the MS. "Tetraphonia by Da Costa" with as much of the translation which has ben completed; comment on the Preface to the MS. "God in Disease to James F. Duncan; published by Nisbet in 1851 saying that the subject is not so much "in their department" to offer more favourable terms and want to stick with "half risk and half profit" with the proviso on future editions that they could change the terms. They recommend it be printed "any where but in Dublin" Duncan's home city; 1859 To Patrick Beaton re. "Creole and Coolies; or Five Years in Mauritius" pub. 1859; reprinted 1971 they make points in response to complaints firstly that they did not print more than 500 copies but "to place the matter beyond all controversy" they have written to the printer. Secondly a second edition would be expensive for various reasons inc. engraving the vignette charging for corrections. Thirdly they discuss an error with a section of his MS.apologetically and ask to be informed of any other changes; also to Patrick Beaton; they are sending payment for the "retranslation of thirty seven pages of MSS of a German Work". One copy letter is signed "James Batton" indicating the writer of all. (1859), 1850, 1859, mainly 1850, 1859 letters headed 21 Berners Street as is one from 1850 unknown

Richard M. Ford Ltd · Royaume-Uni300,00 £GB≈ 342,54 €

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