[Rarebooks] FS: PUNCH, BROTHERS, PUNCH! First English Edition, Inscribed by Mark Twain

[Charles Agvent]

TWAIN,  Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]. PUNCH, BROTHERS,  PUNCH!
          AND OTHER  SKETCHES.  Edinburgh: E. & S. Livingstone  [1878].
          First Edition.  First English Edition bound in original stiff
          green wraps  rebacked  with  cloth   retaining  most  of  the
          original  spine.  INSCRIBED  and  SIGNED on  the  front  free
          endpaper  "To  Rev.  R.  Eden,   With  the  author's  kindest
          regards.  Mark Twain Sept. 5/78." According to BAL 3378, this
          edition  was  published in May 1878. In a 1936 sale  held  by
          the American  Art Association, a copy of Clemens's Scrap Book
          inscribed  to  the  Reverend Robert Eden in  Sept.  1878  was
          sold. The  Union  Catalog of Clemens Letters makes  no  other
          mention  of Eden. Slight offsetting to inscription caused  by
          old newspaper  clipping  pasted  to inner  cover.  Occasional
          soiling and wear. Quite good and scarce.             $7500.00

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