CLEMENS, Samuel ("Mark Twain") (1835-1910). Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old. Hartford and Chicago: The American Publishing Company, 1875.
8vo (215 x 165 mm). Engraved frontispiece, numerous in-text illustrations. (Some minor staining.) Original publisher's blue cloth stamped in black and gold (spine slightly dulled, minor losses to spine end, corners rubbed). Provenance: Mary W. Mason (gift inscription, 5 December 1895).
FIRST EDITION, second state with the footnote on p.119, but lacking both the footnote on p.120 and the 11-line skit "From Hospital Days" on p.99. BAL 3364.
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1889. 8vo (210 x 162 mm). 44 wood-engraved plates and numerous illustrations in text by Dan Beard, 2 pp. publisher's advertisements at end. Original publisher's olive green pictorial cloth stamped in blue, gray, black and gilt (rebacked preserving original spine and endpapers, some light wear). Provenance: William Drown Phelps (signature; bookplate). FIRST EDITION, second state, without the S-like ornament between the two words in the caption on p. [59]. BAL 3429; Johnson High Spots pp. 50-52.
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