Mark Twain [Samuel L. Clemens]. Mark Twain's "1601". 1915]. First edition.

Mark Twain's "1601"

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Mark Twain [Samuel L. Clemens]. Mark Twain's "1601". Conversation As it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors. [no place: circa 1915]. Unknown (to us) privately printed edition; limited to 100 copies, of which this is number 3. Sixteenmo (6 x 4 inches; 150. x 105 mm.). [15], [1, blank] pages on Strathmore USA watermarked paper. Publisher's cord binding with the original dark red limp leather wrappers (split and detached), front wrapper lettered in gilt and ruled and blind; all edges of the text block rough trimmed; marbled endpapers. Wrappers tattered, split on the centerfold and creased; extended chip across the bottom edge; small interior hole in the upper margin of the front wrapper; rear wrapper a little soiled. Text faintly tanned, particularly along the edges; centerfold of the text splitting at the bottom edge; intermittent mild soiling; previous ownership signature in pencil on the front free endpaper. Fair. No copies found listed on WorldCat. Not in BAL (first edition BAL 3407). (#10142).