Nov 20, 2012 - Sale 2295

Sale 2295 - Lot 259

Price Realized: $ 600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
TWAIN, MARK. The Prince and the Pauper. Numerous text illustrations, chapter vignettes, wood-engraved frontispiece and facsimile manuscript. 8vo, original green cloth, covers and spine decoratively stamped in gilt and black, few stray marks and minor surface impression to covers, some shelfwear to spine tips and board edges with light fraying and slight exposure, hinges tender, scattered foxing to flyleaves and pastedowns. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1882

Additional Details

first american edition, first issue with Franklin Press imprint on copyright page, second state of text, page 124, line 1 reading "canopy of state." BAL 3402; Johnson p. 39.