Title: Mark Twain's Scrap Book Author: ** Place: New York Publisher: Daniel Slote & Co. Date: [After 1878] Description: 76 pp. Each side of leaf with 2 strips of adhesive. 33.8x27 cm. (13¼x10½"), original maroon cloth, decorated front cover in gilt, red, blue, yellow, brown and white, label on inside front cover. A nice copy of one of these scrap books, Twain's only commercially successful invention. Produced in approximately 30 different sizes, all of which are now scarce. This copy is particularly unusual in that it has an elaborately decorated front cover showing a scene of three children playing in the snow. The pages within are pasted with articles compiled by S.C. Cobb of Pensacola, Florida from various newspapers in the 1880s. Mostly of a literary nature, these newspaper articles are accompanied also by some autograph material including a long essay by Cobb, reviewing Gail Hamilton's "Society Women Before Christ", written on his professional stationery, plus two letters to Mrs. Cobb. See BAL 3614 & 3601. Lot Amendments Condition: Lightly rubbed at extremities; front hinge cracked; very good. Item number: 230213
Title: Mark Twain's Scrap Book Author: ** Place: New York Publisher: Daniel Slote & Co. Date: [After 1878] Description: 76 pp. Each side of leaf with 2 strips of adhesive. 33.8x27 cm. (13¼x10½"), original maroon cloth, decorated front cover in gilt, red, blue, yellow, brown and white, label on inside front cover. A nice copy of one of these scrap books, Twain's only commercially successful invention. Produced in approximately 30 different sizes, all of which are now scarce. This copy is particularly unusual in that it has an elaborately decorated front cover showing a scene of three children playing in the snow. The pages within are pasted with articles compiled by S.C. Cobb of Pensacola, Florida from various newspapers in the 1880s. Mostly of a literary nature, these newspaper articles are accompanied also by some autograph material including a long essay by Cobb, reviewing Gail Hamilton's "Society Women Before Christ", written on his professional stationery, plus two letters to Mrs. Cobb. See BAL 3614 & 3601. Lot Amendments Condition: Lightly rubbed at extremities; front hinge cracked; very good. Item number: 230213
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