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Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, first state. Good+ in olive cloth with 3 color pictorial. Light wear at edges, head and heel. Spine lightly dulled. Hinges very slightly starting but sound. Tiny former owner stamp on front endpaper, and lovely period gift inscription on plain free front endpaper. Collector's copy. First edition with the following first state points: no broken type on page 72; the s decoration between The and King on page 59; Connecticut missing on front cover; broken type on page 341; no half title; 2 pages of ads in rear. 200 illustrations by Dan Beard. A Science Fiction-Fantasy, as well as a literary classic. The title reflects Twain's relationship with England, which received him warmly at difficult times in his life.
Seller: Mythos Center Books, Frontenac, MN, U.S.A.