Clemens, Samuel Langhorne | Three works by Mark Twain

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Clemens, Samuel Langhorne

Three works by Mark Twain

Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance. New York: Sheldon and Company, (1871). 12mo. Wood-engraved illustrations. Publisher's purple cloth gilt; spine and front cover edges faded. — The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). London: Chatto & Windus 1884. 8vo. Numerous wood-engraved illustrations by E. W. Kemble, publisher's 32 pp. catalogue at end dated October 1884; half-title and frontispiece a little shaken. Purple polished calf gilt by Bayntun, gilt edges, original red cloth covers bound in. — A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1889. 8vo. Numerous wood-engraved illustrations. Publisher's pictorial green cloth; slightest rubbing to extremities.

Together, 3 vols., various sizes. 

Group lots not subject to return.

Respectively, first edition, first English edition (preceding the American edition), and first edition.

REFERENCE

BAL 3326, 3414, 3429 (earliest state of p. 59; without half-title [no priority])