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Lot 195

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CLEMENS, Samuel L. ("Mark Twain") (1835-1910). The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford, CT et al: The American Publishing Company, 1876. 



8vo. Half-title, wood-engraved frontispiece and numerous illustrations; 4pp. publisher's advertisements at rear. (Slight toning and minor spotting.) Original blue cloth, stamped in gilt and black, plain edges (some wear and soiling, hinges starting). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, third printing, on laid paper with printed pagination on folio XVI only, with the catalog dated "December 1st, 1876" and "THE" in the half-title is 1/16 inches. BAL 3369; Johnson, pp. 27-30.

[With]: CLEMENS. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1889. 8vo. Blank fly-leaf, frontispiece, numerous illustrations; 2 pp. publisher's advertisements at rear. Original olive green pictorial stamped cloth (corners lightly bumped, some minor staining and scuffing). FIRST EDITION, later printing lacking the S-like ornament between the two words in the caption on p. [59]. and with broken type at the lower left corner of p.72. BAL 3429; Johnson, pp.50-52.


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