CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. Following the Equator. A Journey Around the World. Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company 1897. 8vo, original binding in style of the first edition binding, blue cloth, pictorial panel on front cover, but with the gilt design for spine stamped in center of rear cover, small spot on rear cover. THE RARE PUBLISHER'S PROSPECTUS OR SALESMAN'S DUMMY FOR THE FIRST (TRADE) EDITION, consisting of preliminary leaves, selections from the text, representative illustrations, publisher's advertisements, sheets at end for subscribers' names and orders, the two binding samples (backstrips: half morocco and "library style, calf effect") mounted on inside front cover, and printed note on front free endpaper explaining the binding samples (offset on front free endpaper and following blank from the samples, as usual); with the single imprint on title-page; pasted to inside rear cover is a printed publisher's announcement, "Mark Twain's Works. Price-List"; laid in at rear is a publisher's announcement for Following the Equator, 4 pp., 4to, leaflet. See BAL 3451 and Johnson/Clemens, p. 68: "The prospectus for the trade dition...included material by Mark Twain regarding the book itself. There is also a picture of Mark Twain and his family aboard a steamer at Seattle; neither were republished in the book."WITH: A copy of the First (Trade) Edition, Hartford, Conn: The American Publishing Company, 1897, thick 8vo, original blue cloth, pictorial panel on front cover, spine stamped and lettered in gilt, in a cloth case with the above prospectus, single imprint on title-page, p. 161 with signature mark 11, illustrated. BAL 3451; Johnson/Clemens, pp. 65-68. Both volumes in fine condition. (2)

CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. Following the Equator. A Journey Around the World. Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company 1897. 8vo, original binding in style of the first edition binding, blue cloth, pictorial panel on front cover, but with the gilt design for spine stamped in center of rear cover, small spot on rear cover. THE RARE PUBLISHER'S PROSPECTUS OR SALESMAN'S DUMMY FOR THE FIRST (TRADE) EDITION, consisting of preliminary leaves, selections from the text, representative illustrations, publisher's advertisements, sheets at end for subscribers' names and orders, the two binding samples (backstrips: half morocco and "library style, calf effect") mounted on inside front cover, and printed note on front free endpaper explaining the binding samples (offset on front free endpaper and following blank from the samples, as usual); with the single imprint on title-page; pasted to inside rear cover is a printed publisher's announcement, "Mark Twain's Works. Price-List"; laid in at rear is a publisher's announcement for Following the Equator, 4 pp., 4to, leaflet. See BAL 3451 and Johnson/Clemens, p. 68: "The prospectus for the trade dition...included material by Mark Twain regarding the book itself. There is also a picture of Mark Twain and his family aboard a steamer at Seattle; neither were republished in the book." WITH: A copy of the First (Trade) Edition, Hartford, Conn: The American Publishing Company, 1897, thick 8vo, original blue cloth, pictorial panel on front cover, spine stamped and lettered in gilt, in a cloth case with the above prospectus, single imprint on title-page, p. 161 with signature mark 11, illustrated. BAL 3451; Johnson/Clemens, pp. 65-68. Both volumes in fine condition. (2)

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CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. Following the Equator. A Journey Around the World. Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company 1897. 8vo, original binding in style of the first edition binding, blue cloth, pictorial panel on front cover, but with the gilt design for spine stamped in center of rear cover, small spot on rear cover. THE RARE PUBLISHER'S PROSPECTUS OR SALESMAN'S DUMMY FOR THE FIRST (TRADE) EDITION, consisting of preliminary leaves, selections from the text, representative illustrations, publisher's advertisements, sheets at end for subscribers' names and orders, the two binding samples (backstrips: half morocco and "library style, calf effect") mounted on inside front cover, and printed note on front free endpaper explaining the binding samples (offset on front free endpaper and following blank from the samples, as usual); with the single imprint on title-page; pasted to inside rear cover is a printed publisher's announcement, "Mark Twain's Works. Price-List"; laid in at rear is a publisher's announcement for Following the Equator, 4 pp., 4to, leaflet. See BAL 3451 and Johnson/Clemens, p. 68: "The prospectus for the trade dition...included material by Mark Twain regarding the book itself. There is also a picture of Mark Twain and his family aboard a steamer at Seattle; neither were republished in the book."

WITH: A copy of the First (Trade) Edition, Hartford, Conn: The American Publishing Company, 1897, thick 8vo, original blue cloth, pictorial panel on front cover, spine stamped and lettered in gilt, in a cloth case with the above prospectus, single imprint on title-page, p. 161 with signature mark 11, illustrated. BAL 3451; Johnson/Clemens, pp. 65-68. Both volumes in fine condition. (2)