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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
TWAIN, MARK. Eve's Diary. Frontispiece and full-page illustrations by Lester Ralph. 8vo, original red decorated cloth, few light smudges; leather bookplate to front pastedown faintly offset to facing blank, else contents clean; custom cloth chemise and 1/4 morocco slipcase. London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1906
first edition, signed presentation copy. Inscribed on the front pastedown in black ink: "To / Mrs. Sarah Leigh / with the kindest regards of / The Author / [underline flourish] / Clothes make the man / but they seldom improve / the woman. / Truly Yours / Mark Twain / [underline flourish] / Jan. 31/09 / Stormfield." Characteristic and wonderfully caustic Twain epigram within an otherwise conventional gift inscription. BAL 3489.
