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

[Charles Agvent]

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] PUNCH, BROTHERS, PUNCH! AND OTHER SKETCHES
E. & S. Livingstone Edinburgh [1878].  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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