[Rarebooks] FS: Mark Twain in THE NIAGARA BOOK, Signed by Twain with 3 ALSs by other contributors

[Charles Agvent]

TWAIN,  Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] et al. THE NIAGARA  BOOK.
          Buffalo:    Underhill   &  Nichols   1893.   First   Edition.
          Publisher's  decorated  green  cloth  stamped  in  brown  and
          silver.  SIGNED by the book's most famous contributor  "Truly
          yours,  Mark  Twain"  on the first blank.  BAL  3437:  Fourth
          Printing.  Contains the first appearance of Twain's "Extracts
          from Adam's  Diary,  Translated  from the  Original  MS,"  on
          pages [93]-109.  This  copy  also  has  an  AUTOGRAPH  LETTER
          SIGNED  from  each of three of the other  contributors--David
          Day, Edward  Martin, and Peter Porter--laid in. Also laid  in
          is an old   catalogue  description   from  Charles   Sessler,
          Bookseller.  The  endpapers and preliminaries, including  the
          front blank  with  Twain's signature, have been  strengthened
          with Japanese  tissue  paper in the gutters. Spine  a  little
          darkened but a bright copy. Near Fine                $5000.00


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