CLEMENS, Samuel ("Mark Twain"). The Prince and the Pauper . Boston: James R. Osgood, 1882.
CLEMENS, Samuel ("Mark Twain"). The Prince and the Pauper . Boston: James R. Osgood, 1882. First American edition of the author’s first historical novel . Mixed state: BAL’s first state printing, with Franklin Press imprint on copyright, but this copy with text on p. 124 in corrected state, line 1 reading “canopy of state” as in captioned illustration (instead of “canopy of estate” in earlier state). A very fine and bright copy. 8vo. Facsimile holograph and wood-engraved frontispiece, and numerous illustrations in text. Original publisher’s green cloth (BAL’s binding state B), blocked and lettered in gilt and black (a few tiny breaks to imprint on spine from heavy stamping, slightest rubbing to extremities, otherwise very fine); cloth slipcase. BAL 3402; Johnson, pp. 39-41. [ With :] CLEMENS, Samuel (“Mark Twain”). A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court . New York: Charles L. Webster, 1889. First edition , later state of p. [59] without S-like ornament between the two words in the caption. A fine copy. 8vo. 44 wood-engraved plates and numerous illustrations in text by Dan Beard; 2 pp. publisher’s advertisements at end. Original publisher’s olive green pictorial cloth stamped in blue/gray, black and gilt, spine gilt; cloth slipcase. BAL 3429; Johnson, pp. 50-52. [ With :] CLEMENS, Samuel L. (“Mark Twain”). The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Comedy, Those Extraordinary Twins . Hartford: American Publishing Co., 1894. First American edition, BAL’S first(?) printing with sheets buking about 1 1/8”, and title-leaf a conjugate. 8vo. Photographic frontispiece portrait (BAL state A), numerous engraved marginal vignettes. (Short marginal tear on upper margin title.) Publisher’s brick cloth, stamped in gilt and black, fine; cloth slipcase. BAL 3442.
CLEMENS, Samuel ("Mark Twain"). The Prince and the Pauper . Boston: James R. Osgood, 1882.
CLEMENS, Samuel ("Mark Twain"). The Prince and the Pauper . Boston: James R. Osgood, 1882. First American edition of the author’s first historical novel . Mixed state: BAL’s first state printing, with Franklin Press imprint on copyright, but this copy with text on p. 124 in corrected state, line 1 reading “canopy of state” as in captioned illustration (instead of “canopy of estate” in earlier state). A very fine and bright copy. 8vo. Facsimile holograph and wood-engraved frontispiece, and numerous illustrations in text. Original publisher’s green cloth (BAL’s binding state B), blocked and lettered in gilt and black (a few tiny breaks to imprint on spine from heavy stamping, slightest rubbing to extremities, otherwise very fine); cloth slipcase. BAL 3402; Johnson, pp. 39-41. [ With :] CLEMENS, Samuel (“Mark Twain”). A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court . New York: Charles L. Webster, 1889. First edition , later state of p. [59] without S-like ornament between the two words in the caption. A fine copy. 8vo. 44 wood-engraved plates and numerous illustrations in text by Dan Beard; 2 pp. publisher’s advertisements at end. Original publisher’s olive green pictorial cloth stamped in blue/gray, black and gilt, spine gilt; cloth slipcase. BAL 3429; Johnson, pp. 50-52. [ With :] CLEMENS, Samuel L. (“Mark Twain”). The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Comedy, Those Extraordinary Twins . Hartford: American Publishing Co., 1894. First American edition, BAL’S first(?) printing with sheets buking about 1 1/8”, and title-leaf a conjugate. 8vo. Photographic frontispiece portrait (BAL state A), numerous engraved marginal vignettes. (Short marginal tear on upper margin title.) Publisher’s brick cloth, stamped in gilt and black, fine; cloth slipcase. BAL 3442.
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