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CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain"). Sketches. New and Old. 1875. PRESENTATION COPY. INSCRIBED
CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain"). Sketches. New and Old. 1875. PRESENTATION COPY. INSCRIBED
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CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain") (1835-1910). Sketches. New and Old. Hartford and Chicago: The American Publishing Company, 1875.

8vo. Wood-engraved frontispiece, numerous in-text illustrations. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt and black (wear to fore-corners and extreme ends, some darkening to extremities, spine sunned, hinges slightly starting but holding).

FIRST EDITION, second state (p. 119 footnote not repeated on p. 120 and "From Hospital Days" not present on p. 299).

PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY TWAIN TO A FAMILY FRIEND in his purple ink: "To Remsen Brooks / with warm regards of Samuel L. Clemens / ("Mark Twain") / Hartford May 1877". Remsen Brooks, the song of Mrs. H.G. Brooks long-time friend of Twain's in-laws, the Langdon family. The Brooks were given a copy of at least one other title, as documented in Twain's Notebooks and Journals, where the author records his request for Charles L. Webster to send a copy of The Prince and the Pauper, "care of Remsen Brooks", in 1884 (Anderson, p. 9). BAL 3364. [With:] A letter of authenticity from JSA, signed and dated 4 April 2022.
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CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain"). Sketches. New and Old. 1875. PRESENTATION COPY. INSCRIBED

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