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Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 418 pages; VG-; bound in 1/4 gray leather, boards in green and white pictorial paper; spine with gilt lettering; mild shelf wear and soiling; wear to crown and tail of spine; contains black and white, sepia, and full-color illustrations; signed flat at colophon by Benton; hand-numbered 1114 at colophon; shelved Case 9 3/4. 1348139. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Twain, Mark. Life on the Mississippi. The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1944.
Price: US$540.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Nice copy signed by illustrator, #611 of 1200. With an introduction by Edward Wagenknecht and a number of previously suppressed passages, now printed for the first time. Quarter bound in blue leather over color illustrated boards. Protected in slipcase with four sides for protection. Slipcase label decorated in green and gold has some loss but 70% there. Seam of slipcase has light wear. Scarce. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]. LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1944.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-1/2") bound in dark gray-green morocco leather-backed brown linen boards with a lithographed scene by Thomas Hart Benton. The addition of hitherto suppressed passages totaling 15,000 words makes this the True First Complete Edition of this classic work by Mark Twain with the text conforming to the original manuscript. Edited by Willis Wagner with an introduction by Edward Wagenknecht. Designed by Will Ransom and printed by W. E. Rudge's Sons. Copy #316 of 1200 numbered copies illustrated by Thomas Hart Benton with nearly 60 drawings, including the first color pictures by him in a book. SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Fine in a Very Good case with typical wear to the label and spotting to the case covers
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.