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    By Mark Twain
    Hartford, Conn,, and Chicago, Ill.   The American Publishing Company
    9" by 6.5" [6], 17-320pp.
    The first edition, first printing of this collection of short stories by Mark Twain, including his unique twist on a ghost story, with illustrations throughout.
    By Mark Twain

    1875 Mark Twain's Sketches

    Hartford, Conn,, and Chicago, Ill.   The American Publishing Company
    9" by 6.5" [6], 17-320pp.
    The first edition, first printing of this collection of short stories by Mark Twain, including his unique twist on a ghost story, with illustrations throughout.
    £435.00
    : 1kgs / : 928Q1
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    Description

    First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

    The first edition, first printing, with the double-printed footnote of p119 and p120, with the tipped-in errata slip and "From Hospital Days" to p299.

    Bound in the publisher's original blue decorated cloth.

    A collection of short stories written by American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who wrote under his well-known pseudonym Mark Twain. Known for his humorist works, Twain was celebrated as one of the greatest American writers, being labelled by William Faulkner as "the father of American literature".

    A varied selection of Twain's writings, including the first appearance of 'A Ghost Story', in which he satirises superstition in this tale based upon the infamous 19th-century hoax of the Cardiff Giant.

    Illustrated with numerous vignettes throughout.

    With a previous owner's stamp, of E. E. Goodlander.

    Condition

    Bound in the publisher's original blue decorated cloth. Externally, sound, with bumping to the extremities. Rubbing to the cloth, causing a little loss, heavier to the head and tail of the spine. Spine has darkened slightly, with the odd makr to cloth. Hinges are strained with cords visible. Stamps to endpapers. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright, with the occasional handling mark, spot or stamp throughout.

    Good

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