Title: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Author: Twain, Mark Place: New York Publisher: Charles L. Webster Date: 1889 Description: xiv, [15]-575, [1 blank] + [2] ad pp. Illustrated with 44 wood-engraved plates and numerous text illustrations (some full-page) by Dan Beard. (8vo) 8¼x6½, publisher's decorative olive-green cloth stamped in blue-gray, black and gilt, spine gilt, lettered in gilt, blue-gray endpapers patterned in brown. First Edition, First State. Rare earliest state of page 59 with an ornamental "S" between the words "The King." This copy has page [1] wholly blank, some copies have a half-title; BAL concludes that both forms were published simultaneously. BAL 3429. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear to extremities, small nick to front cover; some soiling to cloth; else very good. Item number: 196629
Title: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Author: Twain, Mark Place: New York Publisher: Charles L. Webster Date: 1889 Description: xiv, [15]-575, [1 blank] + [2] ad pp. Illustrated with 44 wood-engraved plates and numerous text illustrations (some full-page) by Dan Beard. (8vo) 8¼x6½, publisher's decorative olive-green cloth stamped in blue-gray, black and gilt, spine gilt, lettered in gilt, blue-gray endpapers patterned in brown. First Edition, First State. Rare earliest state of page 59 with an ornamental "S" between the words "The King." This copy has page [1] wholly blank, some copies have a half-title; BAL concludes that both forms were published simultaneously. BAL 3429. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear to extremities, small nick to front cover; some soiling to cloth; else very good. Item number: 196629
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