[CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE]. MÉJAN, MAURICE. Recueil des Causes Célèbres, et des Arrêts qui les ont Décidées...Seconde Edition, Paris, 1808, vol. 1 only (of 21), 8vo, 19th-century cloth, spine lackeing, covers detached, foxing, FROM MARK TWAIN'S LIBRARY, signed by him in ink on inside front cover ("SL. Clemens"), WITH 9 ANNOTATIONS BY CLEMENS (about 75 words, nearly all in pencil on 6 pages plus the rear endpaper), and with pencil markings (mostly check marks) by him on another 17 pages. Gribben, p. 462 (unable to examine this actual copy): "...Isabel Lyon, Clemens' secretary, recorded on Sunday, 10 March 1907: 'Tonight at dinner...he told me one or 2 stories which he has been reading from "Causes Celèbres", one of a set of queer and battered little volumes that he ran across in the library'...Clemens' signature...looks as though it could belong to 1907, but his marginalia has the appearance of handwriting from an earlier period"--STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER. My Wife and I: or, Harry Henderson's History, Boston [cop. 1871], 8vo, contemporary brown half calf and marbled boards, gilt spine, marbled edges, a bit worn, front outer hinge beginning to crack, a reprint, illustrated, FROM MARK TWAIN'S LIBRARY, with the sale label on front flyleaf of the "Mark Twain Library Auction" (Los Angeles, 10 April 1951). Gribben, p. 671; together 2 vols. (2)

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[CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE]. MÉJAN, MAURICE. Recueil des Causes Célèbres, et des Arrêts qui les ont Décidées...Seconde Edition, Paris, 1808, vol. 1 only (of 21), 8vo, 19th-century cloth, spine lackeing, covers detached, foxing, FROM MARK TWAIN'S LIBRARY, signed by him in ink on inside front cover ("SL. Clemens"), WITH 9 ANNOTATIONS BY CLEMENS (about 75 words, nearly all in pencil on 6 pages plus the rear endpaper), and with pencil markings (mostly check marks) by him on another 17 pages. Gribben, p. 462 (unable to examine this actual copy): "...Isabel Lyon, Clemens' secretary, recorded on Sunday, 10 March 1907: 'Tonight at dinner...he told me one or 2 stories which he has been reading from "Causes Celèbres", one of a set of queer and battered little volumes that he ran across in the library'...Clemens' signature...looks as though it could belong to 1907, but his marginalia has the appearance of handwriting from an earlier period"--STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER. My Wife and I: or, Harry Henderson's History, Boston [cop. 1871], 8vo, contemporary brown half calf and marbled boards, gilt spine, marbled edges, a bit worn, front outer hinge beginning to crack, a reprint, illustrated, FROM MARK TWAIN'S LIBRARY, with the sale label on front flyleaf of the "Mark Twain Library Auction" (Los Angeles, 10 April 1951). Gribben, p. 671; together 2 vols. (2)