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— Mark Twain

Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1891. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.iv; 336; 3 [advertisements]. Bound in light brown publisher's cloth with title, author's name, caption 'Arrowsmith's Three-and-Sixpenny Series' and illustration of a male character adorning front board in black. Title, author's name and publisher's logo in gilt to spine, features 130 illustrations E.W...... More
London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. [Literature] FIRST UK EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY, being novelist Sir Walter Besant's copy, a friend of the author and an early public champion of this book. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 438; [34]. With 174 wood-cut illustrations by Kemble. Pictorial red cloth boards, brown floral endpapers..... More
London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. [Literary classic] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo, pp.xvi; 438; [2], blank. With 174 wood-cut illustrations by Kemble. Exquisitely bound by Frost of Bath in full scarlet polished calf with full gilt back, twin title labels, marbled endpapers, inner gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, original decorative cloth..... More