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TWAIN, MARK [4 titles] - Life on the Mississippi
Estimate:
$60 - $80
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$130
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196 Rare Books including The John Mowbray Collection
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TWAIN, MARK [4 titles]
Life on the Mississippi
Chatto & Windus, Ln, Date: 1883. First edition, first state binding, preceding the American edition by a matter of days. xxv, 561pp + xxxii adverts [March 1883]. Pictorial red cloth, gilt titles, patterned endpapers, tissue-protected frontispiece, spine faded with wear. Some spotting, mostly front & back pages, owner's stamp. The author's memoirs of his life as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War.
2. Pudd'nhead Wilson - Ln: Chatto & Windus 1894. first edition (precedes US edition), ix, [1], 246, 32p adverts [Sept 1894] with frontis portrait & 5 [of 6] illustrations, red decorative cloth wear at spine.
3. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg. Ln: 1900. 414p, 32p adverts [June 1900]. Pictorial cloth, general wear fading and scuffing.
4. The American Claimant. Ln: 1892. xi, 258p, 32p adverts [Sept 1894]. Pictorial cloth spine faded with wear.
Life on the Mississippi
Chatto & Windus, Ln, Date: 1883. First edition, first state binding, preceding the American edition by a matter of days. xxv, 561pp + xxxii adverts [March 1883]. Pictorial red cloth, gilt titles, patterned endpapers, tissue-protected frontispiece, spine faded with wear. Some spotting, mostly front & back pages, owner's stamp. The author's memoirs of his life as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War.
2. Pudd'nhead Wilson - Ln: Chatto & Windus 1894. first edition (precedes US edition), ix, [1], 246, 32p adverts [Sept 1894] with frontis portrait & 5 [of 6] illustrations, red decorative cloth wear at spine.
3. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg. Ln: 1900. 414p, 32p adverts [June 1900]. Pictorial cloth, general wear fading and scuffing.
4. The American Claimant. Ln: 1892. xi, 258p, 32p adverts [Sept 1894]. Pictorial cloth spine faded with wear.
Condition
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