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Publication: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

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  • Publication: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's CourtPublication Record # 365281
  • Author: Mark Twain
  • Date: 1896-06-00
  • Publisher: Harper & Brothers
  • Price:
    $1.75?$: US dollar
  • Pages: x+433
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: NOVEL
  • Notes:
      New edition (an early vol. in Harper's uniform ed. of Twain works; "library ed." per some advertisements or notices)
    • LCCN 15-23118 "[c1889]", links e-copy at HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL) -- "x, 433 p. front., plates" (uncredited) OCLC 214231907 "(c)1889"
    • Publ date (June) and price from advertisement by the publisher "Fiction Published Today" identically N-Y Tribune -06-10 p8 and Chi. Tribune -06-15; as "By Mark Twain. New Edition from new Electrotype Plates. With Photogravure Portrait of the author and other illustrations. Crown 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1.75."
    • With selected 1889 illustrations by Dan Beard evidently: "One misses in this [Harper & Bros. library] edition the numerous inimitable drawings of Dan Beard that make the larger volume so unique. However there are a number of illustrations by this artist, and a fine portrait of the author." --SL Post-Dispatch 1896-07-05 p24
    • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one edition as 1896 (rather than as c1889, which LCCN links). Several front leaves are missing. "Illustrations", p[vii]-viii, matches later Harper ed./printings: lists 24 (frontispiece and 23 plates not included in the pagination), namely a selection from only the full-page 1889 illustrations by Dan Beard.
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