CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE ("Mark Twain"). The Innocents Abroad, or the New Pilgrim's Progress. Hartford: American Publishing Company 1876. 8vo, original dark brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, gilt-lettered, ends of spine and corners worn. Later edition (first published 1869) of Clemens's second book, 2 frontispieces, 14 inserted plates, other illustrations in the text, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author in purple ink on front free endpaper: "To Chas Warren Stoddard from his friend Mark Twain, Hartford, Oct. 1877." A fine association: the poet and essayist Stoddard was a close friend of Twain's from the days of the latter's first literary celebrity in California. During Twain's 1873-74 London lecture season he had hired Stoddard as his private secretary and companion. "After [a] lecture the two Americans returned to their rooms to smoke, sit by the fire, drink whiskey cocktails, and talk until two or three in the morning about the trial of the Tichborne Claimant...about shared days in San Francisco, and about Hannibal and the river. 'I could have written his biography at the end of the season,' Stoddard said"--Justin Kaplan, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain (New York, 1966), p. 172.Provenance: William Harris Arnold, bookplate, catalogue entry from his sale tipped in at bottom of title-page (sale, Anderson, 10 November 1924, lot 182).

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CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE ("Mark Twain"). The Innocents Abroad, or the New Pilgrim's Progress. Hartford: American Publishing Company 1876. 8vo, original dark brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, gilt-lettered, ends of spine and corners worn. Later edition (first published 1869) of Clemens's second book, 2 frontispieces, 14 inserted plates, other illustrations in the text, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author in purple ink on front free endpaper: "To Chas Warren Stoddard from his friend Mark Twain, Hartford, Oct. 1877." A fine association: the poet and essayist Stoddard was a close friend of Twain's from the days of the latter's first literary celebrity in California. During Twain's 1873-74 London lecture season he had hired Stoddard as his private secretary and companion. "After [a] lecture the two Americans returned to their rooms to smoke, sit by the fire, drink whiskey cocktails, and talk until two or three in the morning about the trial of the Tichborne Claimant...about shared days in San Francisco, and about Hannibal and the river. 'I could have written his biography at the end of the season,' Stoddard said"--Justin Kaplan, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain (New York, 1966), p. 172. Provenance: William Harris Arnold, bookplate, catalogue entry from his sale tipped in at bottom of title-page (sale, Anderson, 10 November 1924, lot 182).

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CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE ("Mark Twain"). The Innocents Abroad, or the New Pilgrim's Progress. Hartford: American Publishing Company 1876. 8vo, original dark brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, gilt-lettered, ends of spine and corners worn. Later edition (first published 1869) of Clemens's second book, 2 frontispieces, 14 inserted plates, other illustrations in the text, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author in purple ink on front free endpaper: "To Chas Warren Stoddard from his friend Mark Twain, Hartford, Oct. 1877." A fine association: the poet and essayist Stoddard was a close friend of Twain's from the days of the latter's first literary celebrity in California. During Twain's 1873-74 London lecture season he had hired Stoddard as his private secretary and companion. "After [a] lecture the two Americans returned to their rooms to smoke, sit by the fire, drink whiskey cocktails, and talk until two or three in the morning about the trial of the Tichborne Claimant...about shared days in San Francisco, and about Hannibal and the river. 'I could have written his biography at the end of the season,' Stoddard said"--Justin Kaplan, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain (New York, 1966), p. 172.

Provenance: William Harris Arnold, bookplate, catalogue entry from his sale tipped in at bottom of title-page (sale, Anderson, 10 November 1924, lot 182).