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  "Be good and you will be lonesome": First Edition of Mark Twain's Following the Equator

  TWAIN, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens].

  Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World.

  Hartford, Connecticut: The American Publishing Company, 1897.

  First edition, first issue of the author's pointed social critique of British Imperialism with the signature mark "11" on page 161. Octavo, bound in three quarter crushed levant navy morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, ribbon bound in, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Twain, illustrated by Dan Beard, A. B. Frost, B.W. Clinedisnt, and Frederick Dielman among others. In near fine condition.

  Price: $1,250.00     Item Number: 146301

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  FIRST EDITION OF MARK TWAIN'S ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN

  TWAIN, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens].

  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade).

  New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.

  First edition of Mark Twain’s masterpiece. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated green cloth, with 174 illustrations by Edward W. Kemble. Contains all of the agreed upon first issue points for the clothbound book: page 9 with “Decided” remaining uncorrected (to “Decides”); page 13, illustration captioned “Him and another Man” listed as on page 88; page 57, 11th line from bottom reads “with the was,” instead of “with the saw”. Other points of bibliographical interest included in this copy are the frontispiece portrait in first state with the cloth table cover under the bust, bearing the Heliotype Printing Co. imprint; copyright page…

  Price: $8,800.00     Item Number: 145700

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