First edition of Mark Twain's travel narrative Following the Equator, A Journey Around the World with numerous illustrations by the best artists of the period.<ul><li>Mark Twain [S.L.&nbsp;Clemens] (American).</li><li>Hartford, Connecticut: The American Publishing Company, 1897.</li><li>712 pages.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Hartford imprint on title page and the signature mark "11" at p. 161.</li><li>Bound in half-red Morocco and marbled covers with marbled endpapers, top edge gilt with gilt lettering and designs on spine.</li></ul>

Following The Equator, A Journey Around the World

First printing, state A, of the continuing travels of Tom Sawyer, with authorial responsibility assigned to "Huck Finn, edited by Mark Twain."<ul><li>Mark Twain (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Charles L. Webster &amp; Company,&nbsp;1894.</li><li>Illustrated with half-tone plates by Dan Beard.</li><li>Bound in original tan pictorial cloth.</li></ul>

Tom Sawyer Abroad

A finely bound, first American edition of Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.<ul><li>Mark Twain (American).</li><li>Illustrated by E.W. Kemble.&nbsp;</li><li>New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885.</li><li>366 pages.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Bound in publisher's deluxe Morocco binding, deluxe half brown morocco and marbled boards, gilt spine with raised bands, with marbled edges and endpapers.</li></ul> The first edition comprised 30,000 copies; the publisher Webster announced that 20,000 would be bound in green or blue cloth ($2.75), 2,500 in a sheepskin library binding ($3.25), and 500 in this deluxe half morocco binding ($4.25). The remaining copies were perhaps bound in the same proportion. In his "Huck Finn among the Issue-Mongers," Kevin MacDonnell has shown that there are only three points which distinguish the first printing from the second printing of 10,000 copies:"the plates were corrected to reflect three changes in the text: at page 13 the erroneous page reference '88' was changed to '87'; at page 57 the misprint 'with the was' was corrected to 'with the saw'; and at page 9 the misprint 'Decided' was corrected to 'Decides.'" Our copy exhibits all three first printing points. The Uncle Silas plate at page 283, which was defaced at some point during the printing, is here in the cancel state. As for the other points enumerated by Blanck and Johnson, they derived from corrections made to the electrotyped plates during the course of printing and do not indicate a priority of issue. Huckleberry Finn prompted Hemingway to state: “All modern literature comes from one book by Mark Twain. It’s the best book we’ve had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing since.”

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, First American Edition

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, second state of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=mark%20twain&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twain</a>'s The Prince and the Pauper.<ul><li>Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens] (American).&nbsp;</li><li>The Prince and the Pauper: A Tale for Young People of All Ages.</li><li>Boston: James R. Osgood, 1882.</li><li>With 192 illustrations.</li><li>Franklin Press imprint on verso of title page, corrected text on pages 124, 263, &amp; 362.</li><li>Bound in the publisher's deluxe binding of half tan calf, gilt lettered red and black leather spine labels, marbled pastedowns, endpapers, and edges.</li></ul> The Prince and the Pauper, set in 1537, was the first of Clemens's historical novels and was inspired by Charlotte Yonge's Little Duke (1854), which Clemens found in his sister-in-law's library at Quarry Farm.

The Prince and the Pauper

First American edition of Twain's The Prince and the Pauper: A Tale for Young People of All Ages.<ul><li>Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens]&nbsp;(American).</li><li>Boston:&nbsp;James R. Osgood &amp; Co,&nbsp;1882.</li><li>411 pages.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Includes 192 illustrations.</li><li>Bound in original green cloth gilt.</li><li>Housed in gilt-stamped slipcase.</li></ul>

Rebound first edition, first printing of Twain's famed children's book.<ul><li>Mark Twain (American).</li><li>Hartford:&nbsp;The American Publishing Company,&nbsp;1876.&nbsp;</li><li>[I]–XVI, [17]–[275] pages.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Rebound in green cloth with gilt lettering on spine.</li></ul>

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

A first-edition copy of Mark Twain's A Curious Dream and Other Sketches.<ul><li>Mark Twain (American).</li><li>London:&nbsp;George Routledge and Sons,&nbsp;1872.</li><li>150 pages.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Spine tan with black lettering,</li><li>Housed in modern cloth slipcase with chemise, light brown with gilt lettering on black spine label.</li></ul>

A Curious Dream and Other Sketches

A first-edition copy of Mark Twain's Punch, Brothers, Punch! And Other Sketches.<ul><li>Mark Twain (American).</li><li>New York: Slote, Woodman &amp; Co, 1878.</li><li>140 pages.</li><li>Small octavo.</li><li>Includes the following: “Punch, Brother, Punch;” “Speech on the Weather...;” “Rogers;” “Map of Paris (with Map);” “Random Notes of an Idle Excursion;” “Speech at a Dinner of the Knights of St. Patrick;” “An Encounter with an Interviewer;” “The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence, etc.;” “The Canvasser’s Tale.”</li><li>Green cloth stamped in black and gilt, signed George Kirby Holmes on flyleaf.</li></ul>

Punch, Brothers, Punch! And Other Sketches

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Mark+Twain&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mark Twain</a>'s tale of boyhood, in the deluxe publisher's half morocco binding.<ul><li>Mark Twain [S.L.&nbsp;Clemens] (American).</li><li>Illustrated by E.W. Kemble.</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Charles L. Webster,&nbsp;1885.</li><li>Square octavo.</li><li>366 pages.</li><li>First American edition.&nbsp;</li><li>Accompanied by A Supplement to "A Bibliography of Mark Twain," loose in glassine wrapper.</li><li>Publisher's deluxe half brown morocco and marbled boards, gilt spine with raised bands, marbled edges and endpapers.</li></ul> The first edition comprised 30,000 copies; the publisher Webster announced that 20,000 would be bound in green or blue cloth ($2.75), 2,500 in a sheepskin library binding ($3.25) and 500 in this deluxe half morocco binding ($4.25). The remaining copies were perhaps bound in the same proportion.&nbsp; In his "Huck Finn among the Issue-Mongers," Kevin MacDonnell has shown that there are only three points which distinguish the first printing from the second printing of 10,000 copies:&nbsp; "the plates were corrected to reflect three changes in the text: at page 13 the erroneous page reference '88' was changed to '87'; at page 57 the misprint 'with the was' was corrected to 'with the saw'; and at page 9 the misprint 'Decided' was corrected to 'Decides.'" Our copy exhibits all three first printing points. The Uncle Silas plate at page 283, which was defaced at some point during the printing, is here in its first state. As for the other points enumerated by Blanck and Johnson, they derived from corrections made to the electrotyped plates during the course of printing and do not indicate a priority of issue. Huckleberry Finn&nbsp;prompted Hemingway to state: “All modern literature comes from one book by Mark Twain. It’s the best book we’ve had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing since.”

The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn | First American Edition

A first edition, illustrated copy of Mark Twain's A True Story, and the Recent Carnival of Crime.<ul><li>Mark Twain (American).</li><li>Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877.</li><li>92 pages</li><li>Illustrated, including 4 full-page illustrations.</li><li>Bound in the original green cloth, upper cover blocked in black and lettered in gilt.</li></ul> The first part of this work, A True Story, was first published in The Atlantic in November 1874. The story is a retelling of the experiences of Mary Ann Cord (renamed “Aunt Rachel” in the story), the African-American cook at Clemens' sister-in-law’s farm in Elmira, New York. Born into slavery in Virginia, she recounts the horror of her husband and seven children being taken away from her at a slave auction. She is sold to a North Carolina plantation, but when freed by Union forces during the Civil War, she stays and works as a cook for a regiment of Union soldiers. When the regiment is joined by a colored regiment, she is shocked to be reunited with her youngest son who had been a fugitive slave prior to the war. Written in dialect later made famous by Twain in Huck Finn, A True Story also appeared within Twain's Sketches New and Old (1875). This edition, issued with another story in which Clemens recounts being visited by his own conscience in the form of a dwarf, was issued as part of Osgood's Vest Pocket Series.

A True Story, and the Recent Carnival of Crime

A finely bound, first edition and first issue copy of Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper.<ul><li>Mark Twain (American).</li><li>Illustrated by F. T. Merrill.&nbsp;</li><li>The Prince and the Pauper, A Tale for Young People of All Ages.</li><li>Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1882.</li><li>411 pages.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>Franklin imprint on the copyright page.</li><li>Bound in publisher's half morocco over marbled covered boards with matching marbled endpapers and marbled edges.</li></ul>

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