Merry Tales - 1st Edition/1st State

Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne Clemens

A charming First Edition in original gray-green cloth, first state binding variant "C" with berry and thorn patterned end papers and without inserted portrait frontispiece as required. BAL 3435, overall about Fine condition with only minimal rubbing to cloth. A handsome collectible;

Seven sketches by Twain, The Private History of the Campaign that Failed, The Invalid's Story, Luck, The Captain's Story, A Curious Experience, Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning, Meisterschaft.

Price: $570.00

Book #19938
Merry Tales - 1st Edition/1st State

Binding: Original Cloth
Book Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Size: 8vo; viii, 9-209, [9] pages
Publisher: New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1892.

Author Bio

Twain, Mark

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), pen name Mark Twain, was American humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and was called "the father of American literature" by American author William Faulkner.

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