CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. The Gilded Age. Hartford, 1874. 8vo, original publisher's sheep, black morocco spine labels, front cover nearly detached. FIRST EDITION, Second Issue. Laid in: Autograph manuscript leaf in hand of co-author Charles Dudley Warner from the original manuscript for the book, 1 page, 8vo, purple ink on lined paper, paginated "1178" -- A Newspaper Interview with Mark Twain and Subsequent Correspondence. From the Hartford, Conn., Current. N.p., n.d. [1900 or later]. 4 page leaflet, 8vo. FIRST EDITION. Not in Johnson/Clemens nor BAL -- [CLEMENS]. Typescript signed by John Howell of his "Preface to the First Complete Edition" of Sketches of the Sixties (San Francisco: John Howell, 1927), 5 pages, folio, extensive pencilled holograph revisions, with a galley proof for this also with extensive pencilled holograph revisions and corrections. Together with assorted pages from the 1926 first editions with some marked in pencil (used for the 1927 edition); a copy of the 1927 edition, 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, inscribed by John Howell; and photocopies of parts of 16 issues of The Californian, 1864-66, with Clemens contributions used in the book, in a loose-leaf binder -- [CLEMENS]. A humorous ink-and-watercolor wash drawing of Clemens (apparently) on shipboard, seated with hat on, head down, writing, with four elderly men and a youth with a big liquor bottle in his pocket around him, signed by the artist (T. Frengeny?) in lower corner, 10 3/4 x 9 in. (27.5 x 23 cm.), matted.

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CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. The Gilded Age. Hartford, 1874. 8vo, original publisher's sheep, black morocco spine labels, front cover nearly detached. FIRST EDITION, Second Issue. Laid in: Autograph manuscript leaf in hand of co-author Charles Dudley Warner from the original manuscript for the book, 1 page, 8vo, purple ink on lined paper, paginated "1178" -- A Newspaper Interview with Mark Twain and Subsequent Correspondence. From the Hartford, Conn., Current. N.p., n.d. [1900 or later]. 4 page leaflet, 8vo. FIRST EDITION. Not in Johnson/Clemens nor BAL -- [CLEMENS]. Typescript signed by John Howell of his "Preface to the First Complete Edition" of Sketches of the Sixties (San Francisco: John Howell, 1927), 5 pages, folio, extensive pencilled holograph revisions, with a galley proof for this also with extensive pencilled holograph revisions and corrections. Together with assorted pages from the 1926 first editions with some marked in pencil (used for the 1927 edition); a copy of the 1927 edition, 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, inscribed by John Howell; and photocopies of parts of 16 issues of The Californian, 1864-66, with Clemens contributions used in the book, in a loose-leaf binder -- [CLEMENS]. A humorous ink-and-watercolor wash drawing of Clemens (apparently) on shipboard, seated with hat on, head down, writing, with four elderly men and a youth with a big liquor bottle in his pocket around him, signed by the artist (T. Frengeny?) in lower corner, 10 3/4 x 9 in. (27.5 x 23 cm.), matted.