by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Hartford/Chicago/Cincinnati: The American Publishing Company, 1876, containing all first state points (printed on wove paper; 1875 on title page verso; frontis and half title page versos blank; four pages of ads at back), [viii], 274 (paginated as i-xvi, 18-274), [iv], [2], [iv], [ii], bound in publisher's gilt and blindstamped blue cloth, 8vo, 8-3/4 x 1 x 7 in.
Provenance: Thomas A. Lyons Fine Books, Neenah, Wisconsin (writeup loose to book); Property of a South Carolina Collector
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Thomas A. Lyons Fine Books, Neenah, Wisconsin (writeup loose to book); Property of a South Carolina Collector
wear to extremities, binding shaken, minor wear and loss to gilding, wear and losses to cloth at head and tail of spine, corners bumped with losses to cloth extending to edges, front gutter cracked, text block toned and foxed with handling grime throughout, front free fly with closed tear, partially removed pencil marks to fly paper, chipping to edges of prefatory pages, a few scattered closed tears at page edges not seemingly affecting text, pp. 167-170 loose but present, pp. xv-xviii and 199-204 with closed tears at fore edge slightly affecting text, loss to bottom corner of pp. 211-214 not affecting text
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