CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. ("Mark Twain"). The Prince and The Pauper. A Tale for Young People of All Ages. Boston: James R. Osgood 1882. Small 4to, original pictorial green cloth, blocked in gilt and black, gilt-lettered, worn at ends of spine, rear cover marked, front inner hinge broken; half morocco slipcase. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, BAL's Binding State B, 192 illustrations, FROM MARK TWAIN'S LIBRARY, signed by him in black ink on inside front cover: "Mark Twain," and WITH EXTENSIVE REVISIONS FOR DRAMATIZATION PURPOSES BY HIM ON 10 PAGES. The revisions -- virtually entirely of dialogue -- are all in "Chapter XII. The Prince and His Deliverer," in the scene between Miles Hendon and the little prince at Miles's lodgings in the inn on London Bridge. The alterations, mainly in regular pencil ( a few light ), with some in purple pencil and one in ink, total approximately 237 words in about 23 separate marginal changes on nine pages. In addition there are markings and deletions (a few extensive) on most of these nine pages and extensive deletions on a tenth. BAL 3402; Peter Parley to Penrod , p. 65. "Despite mounting evidence that he had little talent for either dramatic plotting or stage management, Clemens persisted in believing that the theatre, like a bonanza mining strike, would yield him a maximum of income from a ludicrous minimum of effort. He dramatized Tom Sawyer , only to have it turned down by Augustin Daly...That February [1884] also he applied for a dramatic copyright on his adaptation of The Prince and the Pauper , but the only stage this version saw was the makeshift one in the carriage house at Farmington Avenue [the Clemens home]. Even Howells had not bothered to soften his disapproval. The play was 'altogether too thin and slight,' he said...' and the parlance is not sufficiently "early English"'". -- Justin Kaplan, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain (New York, 1966), pp. 256-7. Provenance : "Mark Twain Library Auction," Los Angeles, 10 April 1951, lot not noted -- New York City collector (sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 25 February 1976, lot 9).
CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. ("Mark Twain"). The Prince and The Pauper. A Tale for Young People of All Ages. Boston: James R. Osgood 1882. Small 4to, original pictorial green cloth, blocked in gilt and black, gilt-lettered, worn at ends of spine, rear cover marked, front inner hinge broken; half morocco slipcase. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, BAL's Binding State B, 192 illustrations, FROM MARK TWAIN'S LIBRARY, signed by him in black ink on inside front cover: "Mark Twain," and WITH EXTENSIVE REVISIONS FOR DRAMATIZATION PURPOSES BY HIM ON 10 PAGES. The revisions -- virtually entirely of dialogue -- are all in "Chapter XII. The Prince and His Deliverer," in the scene between Miles Hendon and the little prince at Miles's lodgings in the inn on London Bridge. The alterations, mainly in regular pencil ( a few light ), with some in purple pencil and one in ink, total approximately 237 words in about 23 separate marginal changes on nine pages. In addition there are markings and deletions (a few extensive) on most of these nine pages and extensive deletions on a tenth. BAL 3402; Peter Parley to Penrod , p. 65. "Despite mounting evidence that he had little talent for either dramatic plotting or stage management, Clemens persisted in believing that the theatre, like a bonanza mining strike, would yield him a maximum of income from a ludicrous minimum of effort. He dramatized Tom Sawyer , only to have it turned down by Augustin Daly...That February [1884] also he applied for a dramatic copyright on his adaptation of The Prince and the Pauper , but the only stage this version saw was the makeshift one in the carriage house at Farmington Avenue [the Clemens home]. Even Howells had not bothered to soften his disapproval. The play was 'altogether too thin and slight,' he said...' and the parlance is not sufficiently "early English"'". -- Justin Kaplan, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain (New York, 1966), pp. 256-7. Provenance : "Mark Twain Library Auction," Los Angeles, 10 April 1951, lot not noted -- New York City collector (sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 25 February 1976, lot 9).
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