Liberty, WI: The Heavy Duty Press, 2018. Softcover. Number 8 of 26 copies. This charming and beautifully printed book is a fitting tribute to the art of fine printing. It reprints an article by master printer Stan Nelson that originally appeared in Parenthesis in 1999. The article described the pleasurable steps and details of typesetting and hand printing. Stan wrote that the essence of fine printing "is really the marriage of the right paper, excellent presswork, perfect type, and good typography." The Heavy Duty Press has produced a book that fulfills Stan's criteria for fine printing. The text is printed on both translucent and opaque sheets that allow the words on separate pages to show through and continue the flow of sentences. Interspersed are designs showing snow through a window. Tipped in is a small facsimile of a letter sent by Stan to Mike Koppa in 1998 about printing. Printed in 10 pt. Century Oldstyle type on Zerkall Laid and Classic Crest papers on a Vandercook press. The book is hand bound and inserted into one-of-a-kind covers, constructed without adhesive, featuring designs taken from the Specimen Book and Catalogue of the American Type Founders Company. In fine condition. Measures 4.5 x 6.5 inches. Unpaginated. PRI/050719. Fine. More about Typesetting on a Winter's Afternoon

New York and London: The Century Company and T. Fisher Unwin, 1894. Hardcover. Includes Twain's "Tom Sawyer Abroad" in each of the six parts on pages 20, 116, 250, 349, 392, and 539. Also includes stories by Tudor Jenks, Palmer Cox, Katharine Pyle, and Rudyard Kipling (Mowgli's Brothers and Rikki-tikki-tavi, Tiger! Tiger!, and Toomai of the Elephants). Very good in modern navy blue cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Filled with black and white illustrations. Split to interior near rear hinge, else tight binding. Occasional smudge marks but clean overall. 576 pages. PER/052319. Very Good. More about St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks: Volume XXI (21), November 1893 - April...

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1901. Hardcover. Includes "Extracts from Adam's Diary" on pages 762 - 767. Also has Thomas Hardy's "Enter a Dragoon. A Story" on pages 25 - 34 and Edith Wharton's "The Moving Finger" on pages 627 - 632 and "The Recovery" on pages 468 - 477. Also includes color illustrations by Howard Pyle for "The Pilgrimage of Truth" by Erik Bogh. Bound in three quarter black leather over marbled paper covered boards with gilt title and volume number to spine. Heavy chipping, cracking, and wear to leather on spine and hinges. Minor wear to boards and spine. Clean interior overall. 982 pages. PER/060619. Very Good. More about Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Volume CII (102) December 1900 - May 1901

Boston: H.O. Houghton and Company, 1880. Hardcover. Includes Twain's "A Telephonic Conversation" on pages 841 - 843. Bound in three quarter black leather over green and black marbled paper covered boards with gilt title to spine. Cracking to spine on leather, fading to gilt, and wear to edges and hinges. Clean and bright overall with foxing to margins of some pages and endpapers. 860 pages plus supplement. PER/052319. Very Good. More about Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics. Volume XLV (45) January - June 1880

Boston: H.O. Houghton and Company, 1874. Hardcover. Includes Twain's "A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It" on pages 591 - 594. Bound in three quarter black leather over black and white marbled paper covered boards with gilt title to spine. Rubbing and wear to spine, edges, and corners. Ex-library with embossed stamp to a few pages. Clean and bright overall. First signature is a little loose. 764 pages. PER/052319. Very Good. More about Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics. Volume XXXIV (34) July - December...

Boston: H.O. Houghton and Company, 1876. Hardcover. Includes "A Literary Nightmare" in February issue on pages 167 - 169 and "The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut" in June issue on pages 641 - 650. Bound in three quarter brown leather over marbled cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Modern spine and endpapers. Rubbing and wear corners and edges of boards. Clean and bright overall with soiling to margins of some pages. 764 pages. PER/052319. Very Good. More about Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics. Volume XXXVII (37) January to June...

Springfield, OH: Crowell Publishing Company, 1924. Paperback. Includes "Mark Twain on American Imperialism" - a previously unpublished essay. Illustrated articles. Bound in side-stapled illustrated paper wrappers with grey title to front cover. Clean and bright. 119 pages. PER/042419. Very Good. More about The Atlantic. April 1992. Volume 269, No. 4

New York: Sheldon & Company, 1871. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Includes Twain's 'The Portrait' on page 150 and 'My First Literary Project' on page 615. Bound in maroon contemporary cloth with gilt titling to spine. Book plate of Kansas City Public Library plus stamp to fore-edge and blind stamps to chipped front free endpaper and title page. Interior clean overall with dampstaining to top corners of many pages. Brittle paper. 912 pages. PER/052119. Very Good -. More about The Galaxy. A Magazine of Entertaining Reading Volume XI (11) January - June 1871

New York: Sheldon and Company, 1871. Hardcover. Each month includes "Memoranda" by Twain on pages 133, 286, 424, 565, 726, and 876. The August issue includes Portrait of Twain. November includes "Mark Twain's Map of Paris," a fold out map. Bound in three quarter black leather over black cloth covered boards with gilt title and raised bands to spine. Chipping to spine leather and a few chips to book cloth on both boards. Clean and bright overall with occasional foxing. 888 pages. PER/060519. Very Good. More about The Galaxy: An Illustrated Magazine of Entertaining Reading. Volume X (10). July 1870 to January...

New York: Harper's, 1917. Softcover. Rare in the original wrappers. Six issues between May and November 1917, excluding the June issue. The letters were also published by Harper as two volumes in 1917. The letters were arranged with comment by Albert Bigelow Paine. Paine was an important Twain scholar and in addition to the letters, he published several other books about him including a three volume biography. The first installment in the May issue has photos on Twain and his home and facsimilies of two letters. Each issue’s cover is printed in a different color paper, most with pictorial front cover and advertisements on rear. Covers are all in very good condition, some with small tears to spine and creases to cover. Interior pages all very good save for a tear to an ad page in the October issue. Wonderful advertisements and illustrations throughout each. Each issue is about 150-175 pages. Very Good. LIT/051419. Very Good. More about Harper's Magazine [Mark Twain's Letters

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1867. Hardcover. Includes Twain's "Forty-Three Days in an Open Boat" on pages 104 - 113. This was Twain's first publication (with his name misspelled, Mark Swain). Bound in three quarter dark brown leather over black cloth covered boards with gilt title and volume number to spine. Rubbing and wear to leather, boards, and edges. Interior is clean and bright overall. Light dampstain to top margins of a few pages. Illustrated. 816 pages. PER/060619. Very Good. More about Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Volume XXXIV (34) December 1866 to May 1867

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1816. Hardcover. Includes "The Mysterious Stranger" Part II on page 38; Part III on page 236, Part IV on page 441, Part V on page 574, Part VI on page 749, and Part VII on page 883. Bound in modern brown cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Ex-library with bookplate to front endpaper and name of library in gilt to foot of spine (Public Library Oskaloosa, Iowa). Clean, bright interior. 952 pages. [Lacks last 20 pages; should be 972 pages.] PER/060619. Very Good. More about Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Volume CXXXIII (133) June - November 1916

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1896. Hardcover. Includes the beginning of Twain's "Tom Sawyer" in the August and September issues on pages 344 - 361 and 519 - 537. Bound in three quarter black leather over black cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Minor rubbing to spine ends, hinges, edges of boards, and raised bands on spine. Chip to leather on spine. Patterned endpapers. Browning to edges of a few pages, but clean overall. Bookplate of previous owner to front pastedown, H. Armstrong of Ohio. 972 pages. PER/052319. Very Good. More about Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Volume XCIII (93) June - November 1896