Americana. Twain (Mark), thirteen illustrated editions, comp...

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£250 - £350

Americana. Twain (Mark), thirteen illustrated editions, comprising eleven Chatto & Windus imprints: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, first edition, second state, title-page dated 1884, publisher's catalogue dated May, 1886; Tom Sawyer Abroad, first UK edition, 1894; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1885; Life on the Mississippi, first edition, 1883; The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim's Progress, 1881; The American Claimant, first UK edition, 1892; The £1,000,000 Bank-Note, first UK edition, 1893, lacking ffep; Mark Twain's Library of Humour, first UK edition, 1888, defective spine; A Tramp Abroad, first UK edition, 1880; two copies of A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur, 1890; with two George Routledge and Sons imprints: The Gilded Age, 1883; & Roughing It and the Innocents at Home, 1883, each in the original publisher's red pictorial cloth as issued, mixed degrees of wear, 8vo, (13) 

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.