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The innocents abroad, or, The new pilgrims' progress : being some account of the steamship Quaker City's 1867 pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land; with descriptions of countries, nations, incidents and adventures as they appeared to the author

Title: The innocents abroad, or, The new pilgrims' progress : being some account of the steamship Quaker City's 1867 pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land; with descriptions of countries, nations, incidents and adventures as they appeared to the author / by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) ; with twenty pages of illustrations drawn in 1995 by Heather McAdams.
Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Publication: Chicago : Sherwin Beach Press, 1998.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KP (Sherwin) 05-108	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Description

2 v. (xi, 464 p.) : ill.; 29 cm.

Alternative Title

New pilgrims' progress

Subjects

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 > Travel > Europe
Middle East > Description and travel
Americans > Middle East > History > 19th century
McAdams, Heather > Travel > Europe
Typefaces (Type evidence) > Bell (Monotype)
Europe > Description and travel
Americans > Europe > History > 19th century
McAdams, Heather > Travel > Middle East
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 > Travel > Middle East

Genre/Form

Typefaces (Type evidence) – Bell (Monotype)

Note

"Edition limited to 200"--Colophon.
Text based on the ed. published: Hartford, Conn. : American Publishing Co., 1869.
"The body type is Monotype Bell, cast by Michael and Winifred Bixler of Skaneateles, New York. The paper is Johannot. Illustrations were printed from photopolymer plates made by Soho Letterpress of New York, New York. Robert McCamant designed the book. Martha Chiplis respaced the type and printed the book. Trisha Hammer designed and executed the binding"--Colophon.
Binding: Publisher's red cloth boards; Coptic binding, with exposed stitching on open spine. Two additional ill. by McAdams on labels embedded in front covers. Issued in a 4-flap portfolio of red cloth over paper and gray tweed cloth boards with leather straps; designed to resembles a traveling case. A leather luggage tag stamped "Mark Twain," with an ill. by McAdams behind a plastic panel, is attached to one strap.

Call Number

*KP (Sherwin) 05-108

OCLC

52010135

Author

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.

Title

The innocents abroad, or, The new pilgrims' progress : being some account of the steamship Quaker City's 1867 pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land; with descriptions of countries, nations, incidents and adventures as they appeared to the author / by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) ; with twenty pages of illustrations drawn in 1995 by Heather McAdams.

Imprint

Chicago : Sherwin Beach Press, 1998.

Local Note

NYPL copy is no. 6; signed by Heather McAdams, Trisha Hammer, Martha Chiplis and Robert McCamant.

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Added Author

McAdams, Heather. Illustrator

Bixler, Michael.

Bixler, Winifred.

McCamant, Bob. Book designer

Chiplis, Martha. Printer

Hammer, Trisha. Binder

Sherwin Beach Press. Printer

Soho Letterpress.

Research Call Number

*KP (Sherwin) 05-108

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