CLEMENS, SAMUEL.

Mark Twain's sketches, new and old.

Hartford & Chicago: American Publishing Co., 1875. First edition, second state (without "From 'Hospital Days'" on p. 299, and with no footnote on p. 120), sq. 8vo, pp. [8], 17-320; frontispiece, illus. in text throughout; orig. blue cloth stamped in gilt and black, rebacked with old spine laid down; otherwise very good. Hospital Days was discovered not to have been written by Clemens, but rather by Jane Stuart Woolsey; some copies have an inserted notice denying Clemens' authorship of the piece. A curiosity of this book is that on the spine the title is reversed so that it reads "Sketches Old and New." BAL 3364. Item #23218

Price: $200.00