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Lot 113

Sale 1097 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Lots 1-410
Nov 8, 2022 9:00AM CT
Lots 411-717
Nov 9, 2022 9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$400 - 600
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CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain") (1835-1910). Life on the Mississippi. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. 


8vo. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations. (Some toning or minor spotting.) Original brown cloth gilt, stamped in black (some light wear, some minor staining, a few dents in rear cover, front hinge just tender). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, Intermediate A (B?) State, with p. 441 tail piece present as in the first state, and with p. 443 with caption reading “The St. Charles Hotel.” BAL 3411.

[With:] CLEMENS. Following the Equator a Journey Around the World. Hartford, CT & NY: The American Publishing Company & Doubleday & McClure Co., 1897. 8vo. Portrait frontispiece, numerous illustrations. (Some spotting and toning.) Original cloth gilt (slight wear to extremities, light toning to edges). Provenance: gift inscription (25 December 1897). FIRST TRADE EDITION, with Hartford and New York imprints which may have been published simultaneously with the preferred first issue with only the Hartford imprint. BAL 3451.


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