Twain, Mark

Sketches of the Sixties

Bret Harte; Mark Twain · 1926 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.64 | $159.29 | ¥25,468)

San Francisco, John Howell, 1926 . First edition. Cloth. A limited edition, first edition of this collection of articles from the literary journal 'The Californian', in the original dust wrapper. The first edition of this work, with this copy being number 112 of 250 ...

A Horse&Apos;S Tale

Mark Twain · 1907 · Rooke Books

£245.00 (€293.27 | $325.21 | ¥51,997)

London and New York, Harper & Brothers, 1907. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of Mark Twain's fictionalised account of Buffalo Bill's favourite horse. The first edition.Mark Twain's historical fiction novel, partially written from the point of v...

A Tramp Abroad

Mark Twain · 1897 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.78 | $99.55 | ¥15,917)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1897 [1898] . Cloth. A smart copy of this illustrated late nineteenth century edition of Mark Twain's account of his journey through central and southern Europe. A 'New Edition' of Twain's work, first published by Chatto in 1890. An...

Tom Sawyer Abroad

Mark Twain · 1896 · Rooke Books

£3,400.00 (€4,069.84 | $4,513.09 | ¥721,587)

London, Harper and Brothers, 1896. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, first impression of this very scarce Mark Twain novel. Only 1000 copies of this work were printed. A first edition, first impression. This work had a very small print run. In the publisher's origin...

The New Pilgrim&Apos;S Progress. A Book of Travel in Pursuit of Pleasure

Mark Twain · 1867 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.28 | $318.57 | ¥50,936)

London, John Camden Hotten, c1872. Paperback. A sequel to Mark Twain's 'Innocents Abroad', in which he amusingly chronicles his travels in the Holy Land. In the very scarce original wraps. Described as a continuation to the author's work 'Innocents Abr...

Mark Twain"S Memoranda

Mark Twain [Samuel L. Clemens] · 1871 · Rooke Books

£6,950.00 (€8,319.23 | $9,225.29 | ¥1,475,008)

[Toronto], [W. Warwick], 1871 . First edition. Paperback. A wonderful survival of Twain"s Galaxy "Memoranda" pieces, including his mock-editorial manifesto and the witty satire "Story of the Good Little Boy," preserved in the original paper wraps. In the publisher's origi...

The Stolen White Elephant, Etc

Mark Twain [Samuel L. Clemens] · 1882 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.90 | $46.46 | ¥7,428)

Boston, James R. Osgood and Company, 1882 . First edition. Cloth. A worn but desirable first edition of Twain"s collection of comic sketches and stories, headed by his absurd detective parody, "The Stolen White Elephant." In the publisher's original pictorial beige cloth ...

Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain · 1883 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€418.95 | $464.58 | ¥74,281)

Boston, James R. Osgood, 1883 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of Mark Twain's biographical account of his experiences travelling along the Mississippi River in 19th century America, illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work. Intermediate State B, ...

Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain · 1948 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.42 | $258.84 | ¥41,385)

London, Paul Elek Publishers Ltd, 1948 . First edition. Cloth. First edition of the Camden Illustrated Classics printing of Mark Twain's classic adventure novel, delightfully illustrated throughout by Edward Burra. First Paul Elek edition for the "Camden Illustrated Class...

Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain · 1883 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.03 | $431.40 | ¥68,975)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1883. First edition. Cloth. The first U.K. edition of Mark Twain's memoir on his experiences on trips along the Mississippi River. The first U.K. edition, first impression, with thirty-two pages of adverts to the rear, dated March 1883.Illustrated...

Mark Twain&Apos;S Library of Humour

Mark Twain · 1897 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.78 | $99.55 | ¥15,917)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1897. Cloth. A new edition of Mark Twain's collection of short, humorous stories, illustrated by E. W. Kemble. First published in 1888, this is an anthology of short works compiled by Langhorn Clemens, William Dean Howells and Charles Hopkins Clar...

Mark Twain&Apos;S Library of Humour & the Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] · 1897 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.64 | $159.29 | ¥25,468)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1897-1899. Cloth. A two volume set of profusely illustrated humorous works by the 'father of American literature', Samuel Langhorne Clemens. A two volume set. The new editions.  In the publisher's original blue cloth bindings.  Both pr...

Mark Twain"S (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance

Mark Twain [Samuel L. Clemens] · 1871 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.42 | $258.84 | ¥41,385)

New York, Sheldon & Company, 1871 . First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition second impression of Twain"s early comic "autobiography," a mock-heroic family history with vignette engravings and the added appeal of a title Twain later tried to suppress. In the publisher"s ori...

Mark Twain"S (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance

Mark Twain [Samuel L. Clemens] · 1871 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.46 | $238.93 | ¥38,202)

New York, Sheldon & Company, 1871 . First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition, second impression of this "autobiography," inventing a comic mock-heroic ancestry for Twain, illustrated with comic vignette engravings. In the publisher"s original terracotta cloth binding. First...

Christmas Books; David Copperfield; Jane Eyre; Rob Roy; the Vicar of Wakefield; Round the World in Eighty Days; the Innocents Abroad; the Toilers of the Sea; Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor; the Story of an African Farm.

Charles Dickens; Charlotte Bronte; Sir Walter Scott; Oliver Goldsmith; Jules Verne; Mark Twain; Victor Hugo; R. D. Blackmore; Olive Schreiner · 1930 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.75 | $112.83 | ¥18,040)

London and Glasgow, Collins Clear-Type Press, c1930. Cloth. A delightful, neat collection of ten significant literary works by various eminent authors, including Dickens, Bronte and Scott, profusely illustrated throughout. Collection comprised of:Christmas Books by Charles Dic...

The Innocents Abroad or the New Pilgrim&Apos;S Progress

Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens] · 1881 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.78 | $99.55 | ¥15,917)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1881. Cloth. A smart copy of this illustrated edition of Twain's humorous chronicles on board the steamship Quaker City. Illustrated with a frontispiece and two-hundred and thirty-three in-text images. A travel book that humorously chronicles what...

A Tramp Abroad

Mark Twain [Samuel L. Clemens] · 1881 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.63 | $165.92 | ¥26,529)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1881 . First edition. Cloth. An early impression of the first UK edition of Mark Twain's important work of travel literature, profusely illustrated throughout. An early edition of the first UK single-volume edition of 'A Tramp Abroad', f...

A Double Barrelled Detective Story

Mark Twain [Samuel L. Clemens] · 1902 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.73 | $119.46 | ¥19,101)

New York; London, Harper & Brothers, 1902 . First edition. Cloth. The smart first edition of this anti-detective satire in which Twain transports the notorious detective, Sherlock Holmes, to a California mining camp, illustrated with seven plates by Lucius Hitchcock. In the pu...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain; Graham Hutton · 1947 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.51 | $219.02 | ¥35,018)

London, Paul Elek , 1947. Cloth. A smart copy of this Camden Classics edition of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, with illustrations throughout. Camden Classics series. With a letter from the publisher on company headed paper. Illustrated throughout. A novel abo...

The Stolen White Elephant

Mark Twain [Samuel L. Clemens] · 1883 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.88 | $53.10 | ¥8,489)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1883 . Cloth. A new edition of this thrilling detective story surrounding a stolen white elephant, written by Samuel L. Clemens under his well-known pseudonym Mark Twain. An early, UK edition. First published in the US the year prior. Bound in the publ...