Mark Twain

The Workman Collection

A group of first editions by Mark Twain.

• Sold as a set of 5.
• Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens] (American).

A True Story, and the Recent Carnival of Crime. 

Boston: James R. Osgood, 1877. 

Duodecimo.

Bound in publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt and decoratively stamped in black, endpapers with publisher's advertisements for the "Vest-Pocket Series" printed in red.

Housed in a custom clamshell case.

A Tramp Abroad.

Hartford: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, 1880.

Octavo.

Illustrated throughout.

Bound in publisher's black cloth pictorially gilt and stamped in blind.

Housed in a custom clamshell case. 

The £1,000,000 Bank Note.

New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1893.

Octavo.

Bound in publisher's tan cloth pictorially stamped in gilt, taupe, and black, spine gilt-lettered. 

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins. 

Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1894. 

Octavo.

Bound in publisher's red cloth, cover and spine decoratively stamped in black and lettered in gilt, edges speckled red.

Housed in a custom slipcase.

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. 

Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1897.

Octavo.

Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth pictorially printed with elephant, upper cover and spine ornately gilt.

Housed in a custom slipcase.