MARK TWAIN THOMAS NAST 1872 NAST'S ILLUSTRATED ALMANAC VERY SCARCE DIME NOVEL

Description: This is a ORIGINAL SCARCE ISSUE NOT A REPRINT 1872 NAST ILLUSTRATED ALMANAC MARK TWAIN PUBLISHED BY HARPER AND BROTHERS NEW YORK WATCH VIDEO FOR THE VERY BEST DESCRIPTION I CAN OFFER!! CLICK PHOTO TWICE TO VIEW VIDEO!! Nast's Illustrated Almanac, published by Harper & Brothers in 1872. This issue has glimpses of the social economic and politcal times including corruption, racial equality, women's rights, immigration, and other issues of that time in the American history. The book contains an almanac and calendar for 1872 followed by over a dozen different short pieces by the likes of Dickens, Tennyson and Twain, concluding with other very important information such as lengths of rivers, etc.; sixteen pages of advertisements follow the sixty-four pages of the main body of the almanac. The book is illustrated by Nast with over 130 black and white illustrations including a full page frontispiece and an illustrated title-page. Nast, has been called "Father of the American Cartoon". Contains two contributions by Twain: "The Late Benjamin Franklin", pp. 26-27 and "Advice to Little Girls", p. 47. The Bibliography of American Literature notes two printingsVery scarce and of the 6 isssues available this is the least expensive. Paper wrappers with heavy wear to spine and foxing along all edges. All issues have our dealer stamp on an interior page. "Please see video for the very best description" We have many other dime novels we have or will be listing if you have any questions just e-mail me through eBay. This is one of 1200 "Beadle's Dime Library, 400 Nick Carter Weeklys, 65 Nick Carter Library, 57 Old/Young Sleuth Library, & many "The Shadow Magazines" as well as several thousand dime novels we will be placing on EBAY over the next several years. Any questions or special requests please email us. We always try to list any items that are requested as quickly if we can. We also sell for many collectors that have interesting and varied amounts of items, many not seen at auction for years. Ask us if you are looking for that unusual or rare item and we may know where it is being offered. This book is one of a large collection we are placing on our Ebay store of rarely available items and books. The book is one of the many rarely seen items that we will be offering over the next few months from a collectors estate sale. Once these are gone how long before you will see them come up again. Once a collector buys them they go right back into a vault somewhere. We always take into consideration a customers history of buying from us when addressing "BEST OFFER" option. We will respond to you within the allotted time but if it has just been listed we will give it the full time period to allow others to make similar offers or purchase. We list many, many items that may be "One of a kind" or simply "One of a kind on the market". These items usually are placed in collections which are not seen again on the market until once again sold by collectors. If you collect, you realize that is a once in a lifetime occurrence for collectors..... BOX # 105

Price: 500 USD

Location: Lebanon, Maine

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