Lot 30
CLEMENS, Samuel ("Mark Twain") (1835-1910).  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford, et al: The American Publishing Company, 1876.
Sale 855 - Literature from a Private New Orleans Collection
Mar 19, 2021 10:00AM CT
Online / Chicago
Estimate
$500 - $700

Sold for $1,750

Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
CLEMENS, Samuel ("Mark Twain") (1835-1910).  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford, et al: The American Publishing Company, 1876.

8vo (212 x 165 mm). Half-title, wood-engraved frontispiece, numerous in-text illustrations. (Some spotting and soiling, a few leaves frayed and becoming disbound.) Original publisher's blue cloth stamped in black and gilt (recased, endpapers renewed, a touch of wear to spine ends and corners, otherwise bright); slipcase. 

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, presumed third printing (printed on laid paper with printed pagination on folio XVI, but with end leaves lacking). BAL 3367; Johnson, pp.27-30.

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