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Lot 70
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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$325
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Lot Description
CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain") (1835-1910). The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1894.
8vo. Photographic frontispiece portrait (BAL state A), numerous engraved marginal vignettes. Publisher's deluxe half dark green morocco gilt, marbled boards, spine in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands, gilt-lettering in 2, single Aldus leaf centerpieces in others, all edges gilt (light rubbing to boards and fore-corners).
FIRST EDITION, BAL's first printing with sheets bulking 1 1/8", title-page integral. BAL 3442.
Selections from the Library of Dr. John Talbot Gernon
This lot is located in Chicago.