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CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorn ("Mark Twain") and Charles Dudley WARNER. The Gilded Age. Hartford, 1873. 8o. Original cloth gilt (chips to edges, top and bottom of spine, hinges reinforced inside). Slipcase. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Signed "S.L. Clemens (Mark Twain)" and "Chas. Dudley Warner" on title page. BAL 3357. -- CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorn ("Mark Twain"). The Innocents Abroad. Hartford, 1869. 8o. Original cloth gilt (cover detached at front hinge, rebacked with original spine laid on). Slipcase. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Signed "S.L. Clemens (Mark Twain)" on title page. (First gathering loose). BAL 3316. -- Life On The Mississippi. Boston, 1883. 8o. Original cloth gilt (Rear hinge defective, chips at top and bottom of spine). Slipcase. FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE. BAL 3411. -- WRIGHT, Carrie Douglass. The Holy Grail. 12o card with poem. Signed "S.L. Clemens (Mark Twain)" on recto and "Frederick Remington" on verso with a drawing of a bucking bronco, the tail becoming the "F" of "Frederick." Together 4 items. All signatures are FORGERIES BY EUGENE FIELD, son of the famous poet, whose signature is also present in the first two vols. -- [With:] A forged(?) letter from President James Garfield to Charles Dudley Warner, dated November 20, 1880.
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