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5 Vols. Mark Twain, Leatherbound, Some Firsts
5 Vols. Mark Twain, Leatherbound, Some Firsts
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5 Vols. of Mark Twain, sheepskin with leather labels, Poor-Good: TWAIN, MARK [CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE]. 1. Life on the Mississippi. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. First Edition; appears to be First State. 8vo. Sheepskin with gilt red labels to spine, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. With more than 300 illustrations. Illustration on p. 443 has the caption: "The St. Louis Hotel." Fair-Good. Overall rubbing/wear and surface scratching; 2 1/4 x 2 in. loss of leather at foot of spine (signatures exposed), pages mostly clean. 2. Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old. Now First Published in Complete Form. Hartford and Chicago: The American Publishing Company, 1875. First Edition. 8vo. Sheepskin (all leather of spine is missing), pinkish endpapers, edges appear to have been red stained. Poor-Good. The front cover is detached, back cover nearly detached, and spine binding is completely missing (signatures exposed). Overall rubbing/wear, surface scratches, staining, board exposed at corners. Front flyleaf to Preface loose/coming detached, Index page is totally detached, and following signature loosened. Light toning and staining but overall pages are good; back endpaper bent/loose. 3. A Tramp Abroad; Illustrated by W. Fr. Brown, True Williams, B. Day and Other Artists--with Also Three or Four Pictures Made by the Author of this Book, without Outside Help; In All Three Hundred and Twenty-Eight Illustrations. Hartford: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus: 1880. 8vo. First Edition; appears to be Second State: illustration facing portrait frontispiece is captioned: "Titian's Moses." Sheepskin, single black gilt label to spine, pink endpapers. Fair-Good. Back cover is nearly detached. Single black leather label with title and author. Overall rubbing/wear, surface scratches, staining, board exposed at corners. Remnants of gilt on cover edges. Pinkish endpapers. Advertisement for The Innocents Abroad verso of last page. Free endpaper has an inscription to Herbert Moffitt, "From his Mother," 1880. Some light toning/foxing, but overall pages are good. 4. Roughing It. Fully Illustrated by Eminent Artists. Eighty-Fifth Thousand. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1877. 8vo. Sheepskin, single black gilt label to spine, pink endpapers, edges appear to have been stained. Poor. Overall rubbing/wear, surface scratches and large gauge of cover leather exposing board, board exposed at corners. A 2 x 2 in 1 1/2 in. loss of leather to head of spine. Remnants of gilt on cover edges. Front cover and endpaper loose/splitting, endpapers very toned; back cover also loose/splitting, and binding loose in general. On p. 315 a large fragment torn/missing, extending into illustration. P. 513 a 1-inch tear at bottom, and a few other pages with smaller tears. Herbert Moffitt inscription on endpaper. 5. The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress; Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land; with Descriptions of Countries, Nations, Incidents and Adventures, as They Appeared to the Author. With Two Hundred and Thirty-Four Illustrations. Hartford: American Publishing Company; Chicago: F. G. Gilman & Co.; Toledo: W. E. Bliss; Cincinnati: Nettleton & Co.; Philadelphia: D. Ashmead; San Francisco: A. Roman & Company, 1874. 8vo. Sheepskin, two black gilt labels to spine, pink endpapers, edges appear to have been stained, five pages of advertisements at the end. Fair-Good. Overall rubbing/wear, spine is detached, board exposed at corners, remnants of gilt on cover edges, stains; toning/foxing, though most pages look good.
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