[Literature] Twain, Mark. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Charles Webster, New York, 1889. 8vo, xiv 15-575 (2 ads) pp., original green cloth stamped in gold with gilt title on cover and multi color design, spine gilt title and design, spine gilt lightly dulled with cover gilt strong, light wear to spine ends and joints, otherwise covers VG+, in a custom clamshell box with green cloth and gilt on black spine label, in a board wrap in green cloth, light floral endpapers, upper hinge starting but still firmly attached, old bookseller's sticker at bottom of lower pastedown, extensive b/w text illustrations by Daniel Carter Beard., Second printing with no half title (BAL states that both forms (blank page and pages with fly-title) were published simultaneously, lack of ornament pager 59 (also found in first issue) and broken type 'shock' 3rd line from bottom, 2 pages of ads at rear (1st issue), second printing in very nice slip case. First edition, second state; in green cloth box with green leather label. Text lightly aged otherwise clean and pristine.

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