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Clemens, Samuel Langhorne
Estimate
35,000 - 45,000 USD
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Description
- printed book
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. By Mark Twain. Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1876
In 8s (8 3/8 x 6 1/2 in.; 213 x 165 mm). Frontispiece and 159 wood-engraved text illustrations by True Williams and others, half-title, 4 pages of publisher's advertisements at end. Publisher's decorative blue cloth stamped in gilt and black, peach endpapers, gilt edges; extremities lightly rubbed, head and foot of front endpapers with very short separations at inner hinge. Half green morocco slipcase, chemise.
In 8s (8 3/8 x 6 1/2 in.; 213 x 165 mm). Frontispiece and 159 wood-engraved text illustrations by True Williams and others, half-title, 4 pages of publisher's advertisements at end. Publisher's decorative blue cloth stamped in gilt and black, peach endpapers, gilt edges; extremities lightly rubbed, head and foot of front endpapers with very short separations at inner hinge. Half green morocco slipcase, chemise.
Provenance
George and Gertrude Bunnell (1876 Christmas inscription, in pencil, on front free endpaper; bookplate) — Victor and Irene Murr Jacobs (sale, Sotheby’s New York, 29 October 1996, lot 206)
Literature
BAL 3369; Grolier, American 79; Johnson, p. 27; Lilly/Karanovich 90
Catalogue Note
First American edition, first printing of text with points: printed on wove paper, versos of half-title and preface blank. A fine, completely unsophisticated copy.