CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (“Mark Twain”) (1835-1910). A group of 20 works by Twain, SOME FIRST EDITIONS, comprising: Lot 47

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CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (“Mark Twain”), A group of 20 works, SOME FIRST EDITIONS.

Sale 1262 - Summer Reading: 20th Century Literature and Biography from a Private Collection

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CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (“Mark Twain”) (1835-1910). A group of 20 works by Twain, SOME FIRST EDITIONS, comprising:

1) Mark Twain’s (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance. New York: Sheldon & Company, 1871. Original cloth. FIRST EDITION, second issue. Hamilton 1228.

2) Roughing It. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1872. 8vo. Later half calf.

3) The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1874. Original cloth. Later printing. BAL 3357.

4) Punch - Brothers Punch! And Other Stories. New York: Slote, Woodman & Co., 1878. Original cloth. FIRST EDITION.

5) The Prince and the Pauper. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1884. Original cloth. FIRST EDITION, binding state B. BAL 3402.

6) The American Claimant. New York: Charles A. Webster and Company, 1892. Original cloth.

7) Another copy. 8vo. Original cloth.

8) The $1,000,000 Bank Note. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1893. Original cloth. FIRST EDITION.

9) Tom Sawyer Abroad. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1894. Original cloth.

10) Pudd’nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1894. Original cloth.

11) Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1896. Original cloth.

12) How to Tell a Story and Other Essays. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897. Original cloth.

13) Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1897. Original cloth.

14) Another copy. Original cloth.

15) Another copy. Publisher’s cloth.

16) More Tramps Abroad. London: Chatto & Windus, 1897. Original cloth. FIRST BRITISH EDITION.

17) A Double-Barreled Detective Story. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902. Original cloth. FIRST EDITION.

18) Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1909. Original cloth. FIRST EDITION. BAL 3511.

19) What is Man? London: Watts & Co., 1910. Original cloth. FIRST EDITION.

20) 1601. Chicago: Privately Printed for the Mark Twain Society of Chicago, 1939. Original cloth. LIMITED EDITION of 550 copies SIGNED BY PRINTER FRANKLIN J. MEINE on limitation page.

Together, 20 works in 20 volumes, all 8vos, condition generally very good.

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