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TWAIN, MARK. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Half-title, 2 page publisher's advertisements at end. Numerous illustrations by Dan Carter Beard. 8vo, publisher's olive green pictorial cloth stamped in blue, black, and gilt, spots of minor discoloration and a few small blisters on front cover, minor rubbing to spine tips and corners; small nick into lower fore-edge slightly affecting a few page margins, pale green patterned endpapers, contents clean. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1889
first edition, signed with an early inscription by twain on tipped-in leaf at front: "To Mr. Quinn[?] / with the best wishes of / Mark Twain / Dec. 10 [18]89." Second state; page 59 without ornamental "S" between the words "The King." BAL 3429; Johnson pp. 50-52.
