Americana. Twain (Mark), Punch, Brothers, Punch! and Other S...

Estimate

£150 - £200

Americana. Twain (Mark), Punch, Brothers, Punch! and Other Sketches, first edition thus, New York: Slote, Woodman & Co., 1878, lacking pictorial ffep, original publisher's green pictorial cloth, some wear, 12mo; Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old, first edition thus, Hartford and Chicago: The American Publishing Company, 1875, frontispiece, in-text illustrations, original publisher's blue cloth gilt, split, all edges gilt, bookseller's ticket: Burnton & Corey, New York, 8vo;further Mark Twain titles,  A Tramp Abroad, first edition, second issue, Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1880, frontispiece and Titian's Moses plate quire detached but present, plates and in-text illustrations, original publisher's cloth, some wear, 8vo; Life on the Mississippi, two volume set, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1883, 20th c red quarter-cloth over marbled boards, 8vo; Merry Tales, first edition later issue, New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892, publisher's pictorial cloth, 8vo; The American Claimant, first edition, New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892, publisher's pictorial cloth, 8vo; The £1,000,000 Bank-Note, first edition, New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1893, publisher's pictorial cloth, 8vo; Wyeth (N.C., illustrator), The Mysterious Stranger, first edition, New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, October 1916, publisher's pictorial binding, 8vo; another Mark Twain illustrated book; Pudd'nhead Wilson, first UK edition thus, later issue, London: Chatto & Windus, 1894, with publisher's 1898 catalogue, their blue cloth, 8vo; The £1,000,000 Bank-Note, first UK edition, later issue, London: Chatto & Windus, 1893, with publisher's 1898 catalogue, their blue cloth, 8vo; Personal Recollections of Joan Arc, first English edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1896, original publisher's pictorial blue cloth, 8vo; others, 19th c and later, mixed bindings and sizes, (33)

Provenance: Peter Messent, Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature and former Head of the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.