A True Story, and the Recent Carnival of Crime

by Mark Twain, Samuel L. Clemens

$6,165 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

Boston: James R. Osgood, 1877. First edition. A Very Good+ copy overall, spine very slightly cocked and a little dulled with minor wear at the extremities . Original terra cotta cloth, stamped in black and gold. Endpapers printed in red with publisher's advertisements. This is Blanck’s first binding state, with the JRO & CO monogram on the front of the cover. Each of these two sketches

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