Sketches Now First Published in Complete Form [Pirated edition]

by Twain, Mark

$40 · Offered by Biblio

Toronto, Canada: Slemin Higgins, 1880. Hardcover. Good. Toronto (place not listed on title page), 1880. Pirated Canadian edition, low quality paper and type. Light foxing to title page and half title. Contemporary former owner name in light colored pencil on free front endpaper. Another in ink at the top of the title page. and a modern signature ( 60) in ink at very top corner of endpaper. A book obviously passed about and enjoyed. Fine brown linen binding with gilt board and spine. Wear at all edges, head and heel. Some spotting to rear board. Cloth bubbled and rubbed. Gilt is clear but not bright. Now in protective archival acetate jacket

• Publisher: Slemin & Higgins
• Year: 1880
• Binding: hardcover

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