Americana. Mark Twain's Sketches, Selected and Revised by th...

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£150 - £200

Americana. Mark Twain's Sketches, Selected and Revised by the Author, Copyright Edition, first edition thus, London: George Routledge & Sons, 1872, lacking map, contemporary or contemporaneous red cloth gilt, title-page with manuscript ownership inscriptions, 8vo; idem, Pleasure Trip on the Continent, first edition thus, London: John Camden Hotten, 1871, frontispiece, adverts and catalogues bound-in at front and rear, split with some light movement, but holding, original publisher's pictorial red papered blue cloth boards, chipped, 8vo; idem, The New Pilgrims' Progress, Author's English Edition, London: George Routledge and Sons, dated 1872, publisher's pictorial yellowback, heavy wear in places, 8vo; idem, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, first edition, New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1896, frontispiece and plates, original publisher's red cloth, some wear, 8vo; idem, How to Tell a Story, first edition, New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897, original publisher's decorative red cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut, 8vo; idem, Curious Dream, and other sketches, London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, n.d. [c. 1880], publisher's red cloth, 8vo; idem et al, The Niagara Book, first edition, London: J.R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co, 1893, ex-library copy, their quarter-cloth binding, enclosing original wrappers, 12mo; etc., (8) 

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.