May 17, 2007 - Sale 2114

Sale 2114 - Lot 527

Price Realized: $ 306
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
TWAIN, MARK. Conversation as It was by the Social Fire-Side in the Time of the Tudors. Large-paper facsimile of the extremely rare first edition published in 1901. 152x267mm; 6x10 1/2 inches. 8vo, original parchment spine over boards with paper cover label. Printed on Fabriano paper. Np: Privately printed, 1916

Additional Details

Smaller limitation believed to be 125, from the regular edition of 500 copies in wrappers and printed on Old Stratford paper. A ribald sketch that had been printed three times in very small limitations prior to 1901 (1880, 1882, and 1894); others printings appeared between 1903 and 1913. The larger editions printed in 1920 are fairly common; these earlier printings are far more scarce. Meine 7; not in Haas.