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Mark Twain. Two Works, including: The Letters of Quintus Curtius Snodgrass. Edited by Ernest E. Leisy. Dallas, Texas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1946. Octavo. xii, 76 pages. Frontispiece photographic portrait. Notes. Publisher's tan cloth covers with the spine lettered in gilt. Wove paper watermarked Dresden Pamphlet. Very minor bumping to the corners and head and foot of the spine, the lettering on the spine is slightly slanted and faded, very light foxing to the preliminary pages. Altogether a very good copy. Six letters of the ten included make their first collected appearance in this work. [and:] The Adventures of Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass. By Mark Twain. Edited by Charles Honce, with a Foreword by Vincent Starrett, and a Note on "A Celebrated Village Idiot" by James O'Donnell Bennett. Chicago: Pascal Covici, Publishers, Inc., 1928. First limited edition of which this is number one of 375 numbered copies. Octavo. xxiii, 59 pages. Publisher's tan buckram shelfback over brown laid paper boards with cream labels with black lettering affixed to the front cover and spine. Top edge stained brown. Tan endpapers. Some soiling and rubbing to the covers, displays some moisture damage, very slightly bowed boards, some bumping to the top edge. Altogether a good copy.Auction Info
2008 June Grand Format Books & Manuscripts Auction #683 (go to Auction Home page)
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June, 2008
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