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Auction archive: Lot number 297

Twain's Life on the Mississippi, 1st Edition

Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$531
Auction archive: Lot number 297

Twain's Life on the Mississippi, 1st Edition

Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$531
Beschreibung:

624 pp. With more than 300 illustrations. Original brown cloth decorated in black with gilt pictorial vignettes, lettered in gilt on spine. First American Edition. An intermediary state which retains the tail-piece on p. 441 as described, but with the corrected caption 'St. Charles Hotel' on p. 443. At the request of Mrs. Clemens, the original tailpiece was removed in later issues as she felt it too morbid. Reference: BAL 3411.

Auction archive: Lot number 297
Auction:
Datum:
13 Jan 2022
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

624 pp. With more than 300 illustrations. Original brown cloth decorated in black with gilt pictorial vignettes, lettered in gilt on spine. First American Edition. An intermediary state which retains the tail-piece on p. 441 as described, but with the corrected caption 'St. Charles Hotel' on p. 443. At the request of Mrs. Clemens, the original tailpiece was removed in later issues as she felt it too morbid. Reference: BAL 3411.

Auction archive: Lot number 297
Auction:
Datum:
13 Jan 2022
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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