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THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
CLEMENS, Samuel L. ("Mark Twain"). Tom Sawyer Abroad. London: Chatto & Windus, 1894.
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CLEMENS, Samuel L. ("Mark Twain"). Tom Sawyer Abroad. London: Chatto & Windus, 1894.
8o. Plates. Original red decorated cloth (some slight discoloration along spine); quarter morocco slipcase.
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY TWAIN on the front free endpaper: ""Truly Yours Mark Twain Paris, June 1894." WITH MANUSCRIPT NOTES BY TWAIN on the verso of the front free endpaper: "-- Some Jews come along & make it holy. -- & I haven't ast 'em to -- it seems to me that if they own anything at all there, it ain't the land, it's only just the holiness -- just the more holiness, & as for me they could have that -- just the holiness -- if it didn't depreciate injure the property; because I wouldn't give." BAL 3440.
8o. Plates. Original red decorated cloth (some slight discoloration along spine); quarter morocco slipcase.
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY TWAIN on the front free endpaper: ""Truly Yours Mark Twain Paris, June 1894." WITH MANUSCRIPT NOTES BY TWAIN on the verso of the front free endpaper: "-- Some Jews come along & make it holy. -- & I haven't ast 'em to -- it seems to me that if they own anything at all there, it ain't the land, it's only just the holiness -- just the more holiness, & as for me they could have that -- just the holiness -- if it didn't depreciate injure the property; because I wouldn't give." BAL 3440.