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258
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TWAIN,MARK.
A Connecticut
Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.
2
page publisher’s advertisement at end.
Numerous illustrations by Dan Carter
Beard. 4to, original olive green illustrated
cloth stamped in gilt, gray and black, pale
green floral endpapers, minimal wear to
spine tips and corners; front hinge tender,
discreet bookseller’s label to rear pastedown.
NewYork: Charles L.Webster, 1889
[600/900]
FIRST EDITION
,
FIRST STATE
;
page 59 with
ornamental “S” between the words “The King”
and last two lines of page 72 with broken type.
BAL 3429; Johnson pp. 50-52; MacDonnell,
Firsts, vol. 8, no. 7/8, 1998.
259
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TWAIN, MARK.
A Tramp
Abroad.
Illustrated byW. Fr. Brown,True
Williams, B. Day and others; engraved
portrait frontispiece (state B). Thick 8vo,
original brown cloth gilt-stamped, mini-
mal rubbing to spine tips and corners; rear
hinge with small split but still firm,
insignificant dampstain to fore-edges, else
contents clean.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION
.
A clean, square copy.
Hartford:American Publishing Co., 1880
[600/900]
257
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TRAVEN, B.
The Treasure of
the Sierra Madre.
8vo, publisher’s gilt-
lettered black cloth, few tiny flecks to gilt
titles; dust jacket, professional restorations
to spine panel with bottom
1
/
4
replaced,
also to folds and upper extremities; small
ink notation on front flyleaf, endpapers
toned as usual.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION
.
Traven’s best known work, and the basis
for John Huston’s Oscar-winning 1948
film.
NewYork:Alfred A. Knopf, 1935
[1,500/2,500]