CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain"). Roughing It. 1872. RARE PUBLISHER'S PROSPECTUS FOR THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
Sale 1336 - Fine Books and Manuscripts, including Worlds of Tomorrow, and Americana
Jun 7, 2024
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
Estimate
$1,000 -
$2,000
Sold for $1,270
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain") (1835-1910). Roughing It. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1872.
8vo. Frontispiece, title-page, sample text, illustrations, advertisements, and subscription forms at end with four filled out in pencil. (Few minor stains to frontispiece margins, light marginal wear to title-page.) Original brown cloth gilt, leather and cloth spine samples on pastedowns (extremities rubbed, spine slightly skewed, extreme ends and fore-corners worn). Provenance: H.C. Melville, Boston Hotel (original subscriber listed at end).
RARE PUBLISHER'S PROSPECTUS SAMPLE OR SALESMAN'S DUMMY FOR THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. One of the earliest samples obtainable including some pages printed from proofs with the form-codes not yet paginated. Second issue, promising "Nearly 600 Octavo Pages". By 1879, the total number of prospectuses printed was only 1,637. The Melvilles were a prominent Bostonian family that produced several American patriots and the American novelist, Herman Melville (1819-1891). It is unclear which Melville this subscriber was as the author did not have a middle initial, so presumably this is a relative. BAL 3337; Howes C-481; Zamorano Eighty 18.
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