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CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (1835-1910). Life on the Mississippi . Boston: James R. Osgood, 1883. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST STATE, intermediate A, with the tail-piece on p.441 depicting an urn, flames and the head of Mark Twain and p.443 captioned "The St. Charles Hotel." BAL 3411. A fine copy. -- Punch, Brothers, Punch! And other Sketches . New York: Slote, Woodman & Co., [1878]. FIRST EDITION, with the author's name in roman on the title, p.91, line 4 reading "health offi ... could...," and p. 101 with 13 lines of text. In the first binding. A fine, bright copy. -- Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance . New York: Sheldon & Company, 1871. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, without the advertisement for Ball, Black & Co. on the copyright page. BAL 3326. -- Roughing It . Hartford: American Publishing CompanY, 1872. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. BAL 3337. -- A Tramp Abroad . Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1880. FIRST EDITION, early issue, frontispiece portrait in state B, frontispiece in the first state and the sheets bulking 1 5/8". State B of the binding. BAL 3386. The Prince and the Pauper. A Tale for Young People of All Ages . Boston: James R. Osgood, 1882. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, binding state A. BAL 3402. -- The American Claimant . New York: Charles L. Webster, 1892. FIRST EDITION. BAL 3434. -- The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Comedy of Those Extraordinary Twins . Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1894. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. BAL 3442. -- The Quaker City Holy Land Excursion . [New York:] Privately Printed, 1927. LIMITED EDITION, one of 200 copies. BAL 3543 (noting that the bookseller M. Marzof, for whom the book was printed, stated that all but about fifty copies were destroyed by his order). -- And 22 other volumes of Clemens's work, including first and later editions. [ With :] 8 biographical volumes relating to Clemens. Together 38 volumes, all FIRST EDITIONS, except where noted, 12 o and 8 o , original bindings. Provenance : Frederick W. Skiff (bookplates in some); Estelle Doheny (paper bookplates). (38)