Nov 20, 2012 - Sale 2295

Sale 2295 - Lot 258

Price Realized: $ 510
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
TWAIN, MARK. A Tramp Abroad. Illustrated. Facsimile signature below author portrait. 8vo, original brown cloth gilt, spine tips and corners rubbed with slight exposure, scattered soiling; rear hinge partially split, overall crease to upper outer edges of leaves. Hartford: American Publishing Co., 1880

Additional Details

first edition with portrait (BAL state B) and frontispiece (BAL second state). Twain's account of his travels through Europe. With a gift inscription from Laurel Tarkington dated April 11, 1921. Possibly Booth Tarkington's first wife (they divorced in 1911), although their daughter was also named Laurel, and who died scarcely in her teens in 1923.