Mark Twain's Margins on Thackery's "Swift"
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[Mark Twain]. Coley B. Taylor. Mark Twain's Margins on Thackery's "Swift". New York: Gotham House, 1935. First edition, limited to 1000 numbered copies, of which this is out of series and unnumbered. Octavo (8 x 5.5 inches; 205 x 140 mm.). 55, [9, blank] pages. Publisher's light brownish red cloth, red paper label printed in black affixed to the front board; top edge of the text block trimmed, others untrimmed; plain endpapers; in the original dust jacket. Spine just barely askew. Endpapers lightly foxed. Spine panel and flap folds faintly faded; small bruise to the rear flap fold. Nearly fine with only minor faults. An essay on Twain's marginal notations in his copy of William Makepeace Thackeray's "English Humorists." BAL 3703 ("contains some material by Clemens here first in book form."). (#10171).