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Item Details
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| Author: |
Twain, Mark |
| Title: |
Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old |
| Place: |
Hartford |
| Publisher: |
American Publishing Co. |
| Date: |
1875 |
| Item # : |
185313 |
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| Sale Number |
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364 |
| Lot Number |
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286 |
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| Fine Literature of the 19th & 20th Centuries, with the David Oakey Collection of Gary Snyder |
| Sale Date |
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09/27/2007 |
| Price realized |
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$ 1725 |
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| Description: |
| 8], 17-320 pp. Illus. with wood engravings. 8½x6½, original blue cloth stamped in black & gilt, all edges gilt. First Edition, Second State. |
| Signed by Mark Twain on the front free endpaper. Second state with footnote not repeated on p. 120 and without the skit "From Hospital Days" on p. 299. This is the more deluxe version of the cloth-bound issue, with the page edges gilt. BAL 3364. |
| Condition: |
| Cloth splitting and fraying along joints, spine ends chipped and frayed, corners showing; front hinge cracked, rear with evidence of repair, some minor soiling within, overall very good. |
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