Nov 18, 2014 - Sale 2366

Sale 2366 - Lot 240

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
TWAIN, MARK. The Prince and the Pauper. Illustrated. 8vo, publisher's deluxe binding of half-calf over marbled paper-covered boards, spine tooled in gilt, with gilt morocco lettering labels, extremities scuffed, one lettering piece with abrasion losing most of author's first name; hinge splitting between free endpaper and first blank, internally clean; housed in custom cloth chemise and slipcase. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1882

Additional Details

first american edition, in publisher's deluxe binding. With the Franklin Press imprint on verso of title-page (found with both states of the text); and second state textual points on pp. 124, 263, and 362. BAL 2402; Johnson, pp. 39-41; MacDonnell, Firsts, vol. 8, no. 7/8, 1998, pp. 44-45.