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Lot 69
Sale 6331 - The Collected Library: Summer Reading
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Jul 31, 2025
Lots Close
Aug 13, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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$300 -
400
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$520
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Lot Description
CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (“Mark Twain”) (1835-1910). The Prince and the Pauper a Tale for Young People of All Ages. Boston: James R. Osgood & Company, 1882.
8vo. Wood-engraved frontispiece, numerous illustrations, 2pp. blank at the end. (Light marginal soiling, few stains.) Modern half burgundy morocco gilt, marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine. Provenance: William Greer (ownership signature dated 1882); Louella Greer (ownership signature on last blank verso).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the Franklin imprint on the copyright page, of the author’s first historical novel. BAL 3402; Johnson, pp.39-41.
[With:] TWAIN. A Tramp Abroad. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1894.
8vo. Engraved portrait of Clemens by J. A. J. Wilcox, engraved frontispiece captioned ''Titian's Moses'' [BAL's second state]. Modern black morocco gilt, gilt-lettered spine, all edges gilt, stamp-signed by Stikeman. FIRST EDITION.
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