Jun 19, 2014 - Sale 2355

Sale 2355 - Lot 262

Price Realized: $ 1,536
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
TWAIN, MARK. The Prince and the Pauper. Facsimile holograph and wood-engraved frontispiece, numerous illustrations, chapter vignettes. 8vo, publisher's full sheep, slightly skewed, gilt-lettered red and black morocco spine labels, scattered staining and surface impressions, rubbing with exposure along extremities, small chip at spine foot; corner tear to front free marbled endpaper with slight loss. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1882
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first american edition, in the rare full sheep binding. first issue with the Franklin Press imprint on verso of title-page; second state of text, with p. 124 line 1 reading "canopy of state." BAL 2402; Johnson pp. 39-41.