(Literature) 1 Vol. (Clemens, Samuel L.) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. By Mark Twain. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1889. First edition, first state. Large 8vo, original blue and black stamped pictorial green cloth, gilt, corners bumped, very minor edge wear, very occasional, minor scuffing. Frontispiece, full-page and text illustrations. Complete with fly leaves and 2 page advertisements at back. Small tear at bottom gutter-side of frontispiece, "Publishers & Booksellers Protective Assn." ticket at gutter-side bottom of back free endpaper verso. With the small S-like ornament in the caption of p. [59], p.[i] wholly blank. A tight, attractive copy, gilt and cover color pictorial stamping in bright state of preservation.
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