Secure Checkout

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption

Cart Totals

Promo Code:	– $0.00
Subtotal:	$8,650.00
Shipping:	$35.00
	$0.00
Donation Amount:	$0.00
Total:	$8,685.00
Change Currency:

Contact

Email Address

Re-type Email Address

Shipping

Expedited shipping $54.00 2 - 6 days

Standard Shipping $35.00 4 - 14 days

All fields are required unless marked optional.

Add Shipping Note

Payment

Verified and Secured. Guaranteed.

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption

Please select your payment method from the following list:

PayPal
Credit or Debit Card
Express Wallet

Click the button to checkout with PayPal.

You will be charged $8,685.00 when completing this purchase.

Cart Totals

Subtotal:	$8,650.00
Shipping:	$35.00
:	$0.00
Donation Amount:	$0.00
Total:	$8,685.00
Change Currency:

You are about to purchase:

A True Story, and the Recent Carnival of Crime by Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]

4 to 7 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $15.00

Details

$6,850.00

( US$)

Seller: Whitmore Rare Books

Title: A True Story, and the Recent Carnival of Crime
Author: Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good +
Description: Boston: James R. Osgood, 1877. First edition. Very Good +. A Very Good+ copy overall, spine very slightly cocked and a little dulled (with minor wear at the extremities). Original terra cotta cloth, stamped in black and gold. Endpapers printed in red with publisher's advertisements. This is Blanck's first binding state, with the JRO & CO monogram on the front of the cover. Each of these two sketches first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly: "A True Story" in November 1874; and "Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime" in June 1876. The first book appearance of "A True Story" was in Sketches New and Old in 1875, though "The Recent Carnival of Crime" had not appeared in book form before its publication here. This tiny pocket book was issued in Osgood's popular Vest-Pocket Series. Twain invested years of work into this rare little book, which collects two stories originally published separately. "A True Story," which purports to be the true account of a former slave, is the heart-wrenching tale of an enslaved family separated on the auction block. Twain revised the story endlessly in an attempt to make the story's dialect feel authentic. "The Recent Carnival of Crime" is based on the premise that a man who kills his conscience is joyously liberated. These short pieces illustrate Twain's social conscience, his skill as a storyteller, and his use of humor. Very Good +.

Catalogue of the Extensive, Genuine, and highly Valuable Collection of Pictures, late the Property of the Hon. John Clerk of Eldin, one of the Senators of the College of Justice…which will be Unreservedly sold by Auction by Messrs Thomas Winstanley & Sons (of Liverpool), at No. 16, Picardy Place, Edinburgh, on Thursday the 14th of March 1833, and thirteen following days… by (AUCTION CATALOGUE: ELDIN, John Clerk, Lord)

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $20.00

Details

$950.00

( US$)

Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc.

Title: Catalogue of the Extensive, Genuine, and highly Valuable Collection of Pictures, late the Property of the Hon. John Clerk of Eldin, one of the Senators of the College of Justice…which will be Unreservedly sold by Auction by Messrs Thomas Winstanley & Sons (of Liverpool), at No. 16, Picardy Place, Edinburgh, on Thursday the 14th of March 1833, and thirteen following days…
Author: (AUCTION CATALOGUE: ELDIN, John Clerk, Lord)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Folding engraved frontis. & five engraved plates. 2 p.l., 2, 32 pp., [2], 33-103. 8vo, cont. half-sheep & marbled boards (rejointed & extremities rubbed), spine gilt. Edinburgh: Printed by J. Hutchison, [1833]. A famous sale with fatal results; it is clear that this copy survived the collapse of the floor on which the sale was held. John Clerk, Lord Eldin (1757–1832), was one of the leading Scottish lawyers of his time; “he acquired so extensive a practice that, it is said, at one period of his career he had nearly half the business of the court in his hands. As a pleader he was remarkable, both for his acuteness and for his marvellous powers of reasoning, as well as for his fertility of resource. Possessed of a rough, sarcastic humour, he delighted in ridiculing the bench, and was in the habit of saying whatever he liked to the judges without reproof.”–ODNB. He was appointed a judge in 1823. Clerk accumulated immense collections of paintings, engravings, drawings, china, bronzes, terra cotta, coins, and books. Upon his death, his collections were sold by auction at his house in March of 1833. On the third day of the auction of his estate, the floor collapsed, due to overcrowding and the poor construction of Clerk’s house, killing one person and injuring a number of other bidders and spectators, all of whom fell 16 feet to the floor below. With this catalogue we are able to deduce that the floor caved in somewhere between lot 118 and lot 168 due to the wear and few tears on these particular pages of the catalogue. Clerk was a bachelor with a penchant for the fine arts and devoted much of his leisure time either to drawing or adding to his considerable collections. His consulting room was said to be “overrun by his collection of art, literature, and animals [with] all manner of trash, dead and living, and all in confusion.” He possessed paintings, prints, and drawings by Rembrandt, Holbein, Rubens, Dürer, Breughel, along with many other old masters. Additionally, Clerk had amassed “a most extensive and exceptional” collection of 55 volumes with hundreds of architectural drawings by Robert Adam, which he had inherited from his mother, Susannah, sister of the celebrated Adam brothers, the architects (pp. 75-6). The five plates and the frontispiece in the first catalogue are reproductions of items in Clerk’s collection, including “The Adoration of the Magi.” Nice copy. Ownership inscription of “George Anderson 142 High Street,” a bookseller in Forres, Elginshire in the early 20th century. On page 2, a printed slip with additional information has been pasted over the final paragraph: “It may be added that the Catalogue of the Pictures and Prints was drawn up by Messrs W. & S. Woodburn of St. Martin’s Lane, London; and that the Outline Etchings which accompany the Catalogue, are by Mr. Walter Grinke of this city.” ❧ ODNB.

Notice de Tableaux de différentes Ecoles, et autres Objets, Après le Décès de… Par F. L. Regnault-Delalande. Cette Vente se fera le Jeudi 23 Septembre… by (AUCTION CATALOGUE: DAGUILAN, –)

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: FREE

Details

$850.00

( US$)

Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc.

Title: Notice de Tableaux de différentes Ecoles, et autres Objets, Après le Décès de… Par F. L. Regnault-Delalande. Cette Vente se fera le Jeudi 23 Septembre…
Author: (AUCTION CATALOGUE: DAGUILAN, –)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: 16 pp. 8vo (199 x 125 mm.), modern aubergine cloth, title on upper cover. Paris: Potier & Regnault-Delalande, 1819. A very rare auction catalogue of primarily paintings, issued by the prolific expert François Léandre Regnault-Delalande (1762-1824); we locate no example of this volume in North America. This was Regnault-Delalande’s 300th public sale catalogue The seller’s first name is unknown, but Daguilan was secretary-general of the prefecture of the department of Deux-Nèthes, which comprised parts of present-day Belgium and the Netherlands. 72 lots, 68 of which are paintings lots. It includes works by Boullogne, A. Brauwer, J. van Goyen, Kalf, Lucas van Leyden, Teniers, Tintoretto, Wijnants, etc. Each entry has a concise description, notes on attribution, and measurements. The final four lots are miscellaneous drawings and prints. Fine copy; we are aware of only three other surviving copies. In the characteristic binding of the Bibliothèque Heim, and with the library’s stamp on the verso of title. ❧ Lugt 9659.

Secure Checkout