9780385536448 - Chasing The Last Laugh [Idioma Inglés] de Zacks, Richard (21 resultados)

Condición: Good. 1st. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condición: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Used - Very Good.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. "From Richard Zacks, bestselling author of The Pirate Hunter and Island of Vice, a rich and lively account of Mark Twain's late-life adventures abroad In 1895, at age sixty, Mark Twain was dead broke and miserable--his recent novels had been critical and commercial failures, and he was bankrupted by his inexplicable decision to run a publishing company. His wife made him promise to pay every debt back in full, so Twain embarked on an around-the-world comedy lecture tour that would take him from the dusty small towns of the American West to the faraway lands of India, South Africa, Australia, and beyond. Richard Zacks' rich and entertaining narrative provides a portrait of Twain as complicated, vibrant individual, and showcases the biting wit and skeptical observation that made him one of the greatest of all American writers. Twain remained abroad for five years, a time of struggle and wild experiences -- and ultimately redemption, as he rediscovered his voice as a writer and humorist, and returned, wiser and celebrated. As he said in his famous reply to an article about his demise, "the report of my death is an exaggeration." Weaving together a trove of sources, including newspaper accounts, correspondence, and unpublished material from Berkeley's ongoing Twain Project, Zacks chronicles a chapter of Twain's life as complex as the author himself, full of foolishness and bad choices, but also humor, self-discovery, and triumph"-- Former library book. Mylar protector included. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.

Hard Back. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition First Printing Stated. 450 Pages Indexed. Brand New gift quality condition 2016 First Edition First Printing. Tan boards with ivory quarter-spine and brown lettering. Mark Twain, the highest-paid writer in America in 1894, was also one of the nation's worst investors. There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate, he wrote. When he can't afford it and when he can. The publishing company Twain owned was failing; his investment in a typesetting device was bleeding red ink. After losing hundreds of thousands of dollars back when a beer cost a nickel, he found himself neck-deep in debt. His heiress wife, Livy, took the setback hard and she wrote I cannot get away from the feeling that business failure means disgrace. But Twain vowed to Livy he would pay back every penny. And so at age 59 Twain forced himself to embark on a round-the-world stand-up comedy tour. No author had ever done that. He cherry-picked his best stories - such as stealing his first watermelon and buying a bucking bronco - and spun them into a 90-minute performance. Twain trekked across the American West and onward by ship to the faraway lands of Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, India, Ceylon, and South Africa. He rode an elephant twice and visited the Taj Mahal. He saw Zulus dancing and helped sort diamonds at the Kimberley mines. He played shuffleboard on cruise ships and battled captains for the right to smoke in peace. He complained that his wife and daughter made him shave and change his shirt every day. He fought off numerous illnesses and travel nuisances to circle the globe and earn a huge payday and a tidal wave of applause. Word of his success, however, traveled slowly enough that one American newspaper reported that he had died penniless in London. That's when he famously quipped, "The report of my death was an exaggeration." Throughout his quest, Twain was aided by cutthroat Standard Oil tycoon H. H. Rogers, with whom he had struck a deep friendship, and he was hindered by his own lawyer (and future secretary of state) Bainbridge Colby, whom he deemed "head idiot of this century". In this book, author Richard Zacks, drawing extensively on unpublished material in notebooks and letters from Berkeley's ongoing Mark Twain Project, chronicles a poignant chapter in the author's life - one that began in foolishness and bad choices but culminated in humor, and hard-won success.

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hardcover. Condición: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. Illus. with photos Ilustrador. 1st. 8vo, 450 pp.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st printing. Signed. Has a remainder dot. Unread. 100% guarantee. Expert packaging.

Hardcover. Condición: As new. Estado de la sobrecubierta: as new. First Edition, First Printing. NY: Doubleday, c2016. first printing. 450pp., index, bibliography, notes, black and white illustrations. 8vo. As new hardcover in as new d/j.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good+. First Edition. 450 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. 464 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. Doubleday, 2016, New York. Hard Cover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Stated First Edition , first printing with a full number line starting at 1 . 9-1/2 tall, 450 numbered pages followed by an unnumbered page About the Author ; plain tan/brown boards with lightly textured sand colored quarter binding, copper lettering on spine only; plain ivory end pages; fore edge is trimmed. Book is brand new and pristine: it is square, hinges tight, corners not bumped, no dings on edges, tiny ding at heel of spine, slight bubbling of rear pastedown over the bottom 4 inches of the quarter binding; interior clean and unmarked; no page corners folded or damaged; no staining or discoloration. Jacket is pristine: it is clean; no tears, folds or fading; 2-14 x 1 black-on-white store sticker (author, title, price, ISBN number & bar code) on lower right corner of rear panel; publisher's original price of U.S. $30.00 / CAN. $40.00 listed on the upper right corner of front flap. Condition of book and jacket consistent with being brand new and not read. No other discernible or objectionable faults on book or jacket such as marks or writing within, stains, tears, chips, or other damage that would diminish its appearance. No remainder mark, no previous owner markings or inscriptions, not price clipped, not a book club edition, not a former library book. Signed somewhat legibly (his last name is very legible) by the author in thin black felt pen at the bottom of title page beneath his printed name; beneath his signature he has added the date, April 28, 2016; done in my presence at Saint Louis County (Missouri) Library headquarters on April 28, 2016, after 7 PM talk and power point presentation about this book and a question & answer session with the audience. Signed by Author(s).