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    Sale 2508 | Lot 254
    Price Realized: $2,125With Buyer's Premium
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    • Sale 2508 Lot 254

      TWAIN, MARK. The Sandwich Islands. Illustrated with two photographic reproductions. 8vo, original 3/4 black morocco, spine titles gilt, top edges gilt, joints rubbed and partly split (front nearly detached). first appearance in book form, one of only 30 unnumbered copies. First published in The New York Tribune in January, 1873. According to ABPC and Rare Book Hub, only the second copy to appear at auction. Rare. BAL 3530. New York, 1920

      Estimate $1,800 - 2,500


      Price Realized (with Buyer's Premium) $2,125
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