TWAIN MARK Autograph Letter Signed with initials SLC

Sale 2021 - Lot 312

Price Realized: $ 1,380

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500

TWAIN, MARK. Autograph Letter Signed, with initials "S.L.C." to Frederick Hall, discussing the sale of the publication rights of Stedman's Library of American Literature, part of Twain and Hall's failed publishing venture as Webster & Co., referring to it as "the fatal book." 11/2 pages, folded 8vo sheet; remnants of prior mounting along the fold with resulting staining. Np, 8 July 1893

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"I am sincerely glad you are going to sell L[ibrary] A[merican] L[iterature] I am glad you are shutting off the agents, & I hope the fatal book will be out of our hands before it will be time to put them on again. With nothing by our non-existent capital to work with the book has no value for us, rich a prize as it will be to any competent house that gets it. I hope you are making an effort to sell before you discharge too many agents, for I suppose the agents are a valuable part of the property . . ."