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  • Author: Twain, Mark

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1601, or Conversation at the Social Fireside as it Was in the Time of the Tudors, by Mark Twain. With notes and a checklist of editions by Irvin Haas.

Chicago: BLACK CAT PRESS, 1962.

40pp. One of 100 copies. With frontispiece in black & white and ornaments in red. Some wear to spine ends and a few slight scratches to covers, else fine in red leather, gilt. A.e.g. (Bradbury p. 21). (2 11/16 by 1 15/16; 69x49mm). ... more

Price: $200.00

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Autograph Letter, Signed.

(Hartford): N.p., 1889.

(3)pp., rectos only. Dated July 15, 1889, from Clemens to his daughter, Clara, signed "Papa," about a train disaster in Virginia. An update about the wreck arrived in a letter while Clemens was dining with his friend, Charles Dudley Warner, a fellow American writer. Clemens's vivid description of the event... more

Price: $7,500.00

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The Christmas Fireside. The Story of a Bad Little Boy that Bore a Charmed Life. Written by Grandfather Twain for Good Little Girls and Boys.

(Hillsborough, CA): Allen Press, (1949).

12mo. (8)ff. One of 75 copies sent to friends at Christmas and signed by the Allen family. Printed in three colors, with two Victorian wood engravings. The story of a dreadfully bad boy who grew up to be "the infernalest wickedest scoundrel in his native village, and universally respected, and... more

Price: $750.00

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Excerpts from Adam's Diary.

Chamberlain, Sarah
(Hyattsville, MD): Rebecca Press, 1991.

(18)ff. A special edition published to mark the birth of a daughter to the printer, Rebecca Bingham. Fine in blue and white handmade paper boards, with a birth announcement tipped-onto the front cover. (2 1/2 by 2 7/8; 63x74mm). ... more

Price: $60.00

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Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar for 1894.

Dawson's Landing, MO: Set Up and Printed for Mr. Wilson by Henry Butts, 1894.

16pp. Mark Twain's smallest first edition, form C (no priority). Issued as an advertisement for The Century Magazine, which was running "Pudd'nhead Wilson" in serial form. The calendar may have been produced from multiple, not duplicate, settings, and it is possible that all three forms were issued simultaneously. Each month... more

Price: $2,750.00

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Roughing it in California.

Dean, Mallette
Kentfield, CA: Allen Press, 1953.

Large octavo. 90pp. One of 200 copies. Printed in black, gray and red, with color illustrations by Mallette Dean. In paper-backed boards, covered with wood-grained paper. Spine very slightly faded, else fine, glassine wrapper. Prosectus laid in. ... more

Price: $300.00

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Two Stories.

Buffalo: Hillside Press, 1986.

79pp. One of 300 copies, signed by the publisher, Eleanor Irwin. With seven full-page illustrations in black & white, illustrated endpapers, and hand-colored accents to the title page. Fine in gilt-stamped brown leather. (2 1/2 by 2 1/8; 63x51mm). ... more

Price: $75.00

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[Borrower's Press]. The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.

Bernier, Jane
Winterport, ME: Borrower's Press, 1979.

52pp. One of 300 copies signed by the printer, Jane Bernier. With bright, hand-colored illustrations accompanying Twain's comic story. Fine in gilt-decorated brown leather, with "Mark Twain" to the spine. (Bradbury, p. 32). (3/4 by 5/8; 20x15mm). ... more

Price: $125.00

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[Hillside Press]. Jim Wolf and the Cats.

Buffalo: Hillside Press, 1979.

39pp. One of 225 copies. The 1898 version of the text, written for Clemens' autobiography. A very fine copy in pictorial cloth binding. (Bradbury, p. 96). (2 3/8 by 1 15/16; 60x49mm). ... more

Price: $100.00

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