[Rarebooks] FS: Mark Twain

[Nina W. Matheson]

Fill in the crevices of your Mark Twain collection with:

Taylor, Coley B.   Mark twain's margins on Thackeray's "Swift".  New York, 
Gotham House, 1935 Tan cloth, printed paper label on the front cover. Very 
light wear at the corners, otherwise fine. Of 1,000 copies one of 50 set 
aside for the use of the literary critics. In place of a number the author 
has written in "review". Inscribed by the author beneath the limitation 
notice. BAL 3703 ("Contains some material by Clemens here first in book 
form").  $75

Clemens, Samuel Langhorne.   Mark Twain's burlesque 
autobiography.  Larchmont, Peter Pauper Press, 1930. Original green cloth, 
printed paper label on the backstrip. Label darkened, otherwise near fine. 
[25] pp. 525 copies printed at the Walpole Printing Office in New Rochelle. 
"Of these five hundred are for sale by Random House, New York City". 
McBride / Mark Twain, a bibliography, p. 17.  $50

Meine, Franklin J.   Mark Twain's first story.  [Iowa City] Prairie Press 
[1952]. Original dust jacket over plain wrappers (beige dust jacket 
lettered in red). Fine. 19 pp. Designed, hand set and printed by Carroll 
Coleman. William M. McBride / Mark Twain, a bibliography of the collections 
of the Mark Twain Memorial and the Stowe-Day Foundation, p. 301.  $50

Simpson, Alan.   Mark Twain goes back to Vassar, an introduction to the 
Jean Webster McKinney family papers.  [n.p.] published for the dedication 
of the Francis FitzRandolph Rare Book Room in the Helen B. Lockwood 
Library, 1977. Original printed wrappers. Fine. 20 pp. Illustrated. 
Includes a facsimile of a Mark Twain letter, a reproduction of a lithograph 
portrait of Twain, and a facsimile of an early autograph page of The 
Celebrated Jumping Frog.  $25


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