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OFFERED FOR SALE. Uniformly bound in three-quarters green morocco, gilt backs, gilt tops, in the majority of instances with the original cloth covers bound in; and with many of the rarer items in the original bindings enclosed in cases uniform with the rest of the set.

v.p., v.d.

This remarkable collection of Mark Twain FIRST EDITIONS consists of the following:-The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, AUTOGRAPH LETTER INSERTED, 1867; Another copy, Second Edition, 1867; The Innocents Abroad, or the New Pilgrim's Progress, 1869; Another Copy, Second Edition, 1869; The Galaxy for June, 1870. (First appearance of the Memoranda.) 1870; The New Pilgrim's Progress, 1870; The Piccadilly Annual. Containing the Memoranda, 1870; The Galaxy (Monthly parts, May, 1870, to April, 1871, and August, 1871. Containing all of the Mark Twain matter subsequently published in the Memoranda, etc., 13 numbers) 1870-1; Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography and First Romance, 1871; Eye Openers Containing the Autobiography and 25 other sketches, 1871; Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography; Awful Terrible Mediaeval Romance, 1871; Another Copy, Second Edition, 1871; Mark Twain's Memoranda (From the Galaxy) Published in Toronto, 1871, by Wm. Warwick. In the original wrappers, 1871; Practical Jokes, 1871; The Buyers' Manual, 1872; A Curious Dream and Other Sketches, 1872; Nast's Illustrated Almanac for 1872, 1872; Nast's Illustrated Almanac for 1872, 1872; Roughing It (And the Innocents at Home.) 1872; Roughing It, 1872; Another copy, Second Edition, 1872; Fun, Fact and Fancy. A Collection of Original Comic Sketches and Choice Selections of Wit and Humor, 1873; The Gilded Age, With Chas. Dudley Warner. Facing page 56 there is a page of ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT BY TWAIN and facing page 368, one by WARNER, 1873; The Gilded Age, With Chas. Dudley Warner, 1873; The Innocents at Home, 1873; Mark Twain's Choice Humorous Works, 1873; Nast's Illustrated Almanac for 1873; The Sandwich Islands, (An Article in the New York Tribune.) 1873; The Choice Humorous Works of Mark Twain. Revised and Corrected by the author, 1874; Tom Hood's Comic Annual for 1873; The Gilded Age, 3 vols., 1874; Mark Twain's Sketches, 1874; Tom Hood's Comic Annual for 1874; Lotos Leaves, 1875; Mark Twain's Sketches, Second Edition, 1875; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876; Another copy, Second Edition, 1876; Horse Car Poetry. First appearance in book form of "Punch, Brothers, Punch," 1876; Information Wanted and Other Tales, 1876; Old Times on the Mississippi, 1876; Seventy-First Anniversary Celebration of the New England Society, 1876; The Quarterly Elocutionist, (April, 1877), 1877; A True Story, Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut, 1877; An Idle Excursion and Other Papers, 1878; An Idle Excursion and Other Papers, 1878; Dick's Recitations and Readings, No. 7, n. d.; Mark Twain's Nightmare, 1878; The 240th Annual Record of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Co. of Massachusetts, 1878; Punch, Brothers, Punch, 1878; Another Copy, Second Edition, 1878; Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion, 1878; Report of the Proceedings of the Army of the Tennessee, Speech on page 50, 1879; Sketches, Including Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls, 1880; Some Funny Things, First Appearance in book form of a letter from Clemens, originally printed in the Carson (Nevada) Appeal, 1880; A Tramp Abroad (SHEETS OF ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT INSERTED At page 397), 1880; Second Edition of above copy, 1880; First Annual Festival of the New England Society of Penn. at Continental Hotel. Twain's speech pages 54-9, 1881; The Prince and the Pauper, 1881: The Prince and the Pauper, 1882; The Stolen White Elephant, 1882; The Stolen White Elephant (Corrections in the Manuscript of this story are inserted at pages 255 of the text. They are in CLEMENS' AUTOGRAPH), 1882; Life on the Mississippi (Also the suppressed chapter privately printed in 1913 by Merle Johnson), 1883; Another copy, Second

Edition, 1883; The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English by Pedro Carolino, with introduction by Twain, 1883; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884; Another copy, (American Edition), 1885; Annual Dinner of the Typothetae of New York in Honor of the Birthday of Benjamin Franklin at Delmonico's, Monday, Jan. 18, 1886, Twain's speech pp. 8-9, 1886; English as She is Taught, 1887; Mark Twain's Library of Humor, 1888; The Meisterschaft, 1888; What American Authors Think about International Copyright, Mark Twain on page 10, 1888; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, 1889; Another Copy, Second edition, 1889; Society of the Army of the Potomac, With letter by Twain, 1889; The American Claimant, 1892; Mark Twain, His Life and Work, a Biographical Sketch by Will M. Clemens, 1892; Merry Tales, 1892; Another Copy, Second Edition, 1892; The Niagara Book, 1893; Another copy, Second Edition, 1893; The 1,000,000 Pound Bank Note, 1893; Tom Sawyer Abroad, 1894; The Tragedy of Pudd 'nhead Wilson, and the Comedy of Those Extraordinary Twins, 1894; Tom Sawyer Abroad, 1896; Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, 1896; Following the Equator, 1897; How to tell a Story, and Other Essays, 1897; Sixty and Six Chips, 1897; Tom Sawyer Detective, 1897; At the Appetite Cure, 1898; Christian Science and the Book of Mrs. Eddy, 1899; Following the Equator (No. 43 of the Author's signed edition of 250 with his inscription and a long letter to an agent), 1898; English as She is Taught, With Biographical Sketch by the author, By M. Irving Lans, 1900; The Man that Corrupted Hadley burg, 1900; Kate Field, A Record, by L. Whiting, containing a letter by Clemens on Mormonism. Long presentation (inscription of author), 1900; After Dinner Speeches of the Lotos Club. Speech by Clemens on Page 374; To the Person Sitting in Darkness, 1907; The Cornhill Booklet, March, 1901; Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany, (Letter referring to same inserted), 1901; A Double Barrelled Detective Story, 1902; North American Review Article on Christian Science, 1902-3; The Jumping Frog. (First appearance of the note on page 64), 1903; The Literary Guillotine, with Oliver Herford and Chas. Battell Loomis, 1903; Mark Twain's Birthday, 1902; A Dog's Tale, 1904; Another copy, reprinted from Harper's Magazine, 1903; Extracts from Adam's Diary, 1904; Anniversary Souvenir Number of Harper's Weekly, containing speeches by Mr. Clemens and Others, 1905; Editorial Wild Oats, 1905; King Leopold's Soliloquy, 1905; another copy, Second edition, 1905; another copy, Third Edition, containing the "Supplementary" not in the first edition, 1905; Arguments before the Committee on Patents of The Senate and House of Representatives conjointly. Twain's speech on page 116, 1906; Eve's Diary, 1906; The $30,000.00 Bequest, 1906; The Primrose Way, 1906; Mark Twain on Simplified Spelling, 1906; Their Husbands' Wives, 1906; What is Man? No. 23 of the privately printed edition from the Devinne Press, 1906; Chapters from my Autobiography, 1906; The American Society in London. TWAIN's speech on pp. 14-18, 1907; Christian Science, 1907; A Horse's Tale, 1907; The Savage Club, 1907; Women and Things, 1906; Life of T. B. Aldrich, No. 272 of 500 copies. Twain's correspondence on pp. 94-99, 1908; Extracts from Capt. Stormfield's Visit to Heaven, 1909; Is Shakespeare Dead? 1909; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Illustrated by Brehm, 1910; The Bookman Memorial Number, June, 1910, 1910; Bibliography of the work of Mark Twain, 1910; Mark Twain's Speeches, 1910; The Turning Point in my Life, 1910; What is Man? The First Instance in which his name appears on the title-page, 1910; Mark Twain's Letter to the California Pioneers, 1911; Mark Twain. By Archibald Henderson, 1911; After Dinner Speeches at the Lotos Club, 1911; Mark Twain, A Biography, 3 vols., 1912; My Platonic Sweetheart, 1912; Choice bits from Mark Twain, n. d.; Innocents Abroad, n. d.; Men and Things, 1906; The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography; Extracts from the Minutes and Reports of the Robert Fulton Monument Assn., Speech and Letter by Twain, 1907; An Unexpected Acquaintance, 1904; The Log of An Ancient Mariner; The Medical Muse

Grave and Gay, 1895; Parlor Table Companion, 1877; Prospectus of a "Pleasure Trip to the Mediterranian and the Black Sea." The pencilled notes on verso of the prospectus are thought to be by Mr. Clemens, 1866; Pudd 'nhead Wilson's Calendar for 1894. This is regarded as the correct first issue of the small pamphlet, 1893; Letters and Opinions upon "The Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy, by Wallace Irwin," Contains a letter in facsimile of Mark Twain, 1909; The Curious Republic of Condour. The article is anonymous but Merle Johnson unhesitatingly pronounces it to be by Twain, 1875; Roughing It. Original sheets of this work, issued some time prior to the regular first edition. It contains about 100 pages, with copyright dated 1871, although the copy filed in Washington was dated Feb., 1872. The title of this prospectus lacks the imprint of "A. Roman & Co. which is incorporated in the regular first edition, 1871; Mark Twain's Sketches. The authorized English Edition with the first printing in book form of "Author's Preface, "Author's Advertisement," etc., 1872; Lotos Leaves. This copy is printed on thick paper for the members of the Lotos Club, and contains an AUTOGRAPH LETTER from John Elderkin, and the publisher's autograph certification that this is the "Club Edition,' " 1875; Seventy-Second Anniversary Celebration of the New England Society. Contains letter by Twain, 1877; Dick's Recitations and Readings, No. 6, 1877-8; One Hundred Choice Selections in Poetry and Prose, 17, 1879; The American Claimant. First English Edition with illustrations from the Idler Magazine, 1892; Pudd 'nhead Wilson. First English Edition without the marginal illustrations and the comedy "Those Extraordinary Twins.'' This may have been issued a few days before the American Edition, 1894; More Tramps Abroad. First English Edition of "Following the Equator," 1897; How to tell a Story and Other Essays, 1900; Life on the Mississippi. According to Johnson, 1883; Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1884; Phunny Phellows. Contains two pieces by Twain, 1885; A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur, 1889; Speeches at the Lotos Club. With a presentation inscription from J. Elderkin, one of the compilers, 1901; Two Hundred After Dinner Stories as told by Many American Humorists. It is certified in writing by the publishers that this is one of the copies from the first edition, 1902; Perce, mon ami, Perce. Contained in Roman et Vie" 1908; A Scrap of Curious History, published in Harper's Magazine for October, 1914; Mark Twain on Vivisection, n. d.; How to Make History Dates Stick, 1914; Souvenir of the Towers of Talcott Mountain, n. d.; How Rev. Wiggin Re-wrote Mrs. Eddy's Book, n. d.; My Debut as a Literary Person with other essay, 1903; History of the Big Bonanza, with introduction by Twain, 1876; Prince and the Pauper, 1881; Beadle's Illustrated Book of Fun, No. 3, 1866; (This is a rare publication). The Boys' Life of Mark Twain, 1916; The Mysterious Stranger, 1916: Mark Twain's Scrap Book, 1873; That Convention, 1872; Mark Twain's letters, 2 vols., 1917; A Curious Experience, n. d.; The Art of Authorship, 1890; Queen Victoria's Jubilee, 1897.

250. CLEMENS (SAMUEL L.). ("MARK TWAIN"). The Writings of. Finely illustrated with photogravures and etchings. 25 vols., 8vo, full green levant morocco, the sides decorated with gilt corner designs, gold panelled backs, doublures of purple levant within borders of green levant and gold tooling, white watered silk flies, gilt tops, uncut. TOGETHER WITH THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT OF MARK TWAIN'S STORY, "How the Chimney-Sweep got the Ear of the Emperor"; typewritten on 15 quarto pages, with numerous manuscript corrections and additions in MARK TWAIN'S HANDWRITING; mounted and bound in a royal quarto volume, uniform with the rest of the set. In all, 26 vols.

Hartford: American Publishing Co., 1899

EDITION DE LUXE, limited to 1000 numbered copies; inserted in the first volume are two pages of the Original Autograph Manuscript of "The Gilded Age," one in the handwriting of Mark Twain, the other in that of his collaborator, Charles Dudley Warner. Very handsome

set.

251. CLEVELAND (JOHN). The Works of Mr. John Cleveland containing his Poems, Orations, Epistles, collected with the Life of the Author. Portrait by White. Small 8vo, full polished calf, gilt, gilt edges, by Riviere. London: R. Holt, 1687

This is the most complete edition of Cleveland, and contains everything he wrote both in prose and verse. So anxious was the Editor that nothing should be omitted that he inserted one poem, that on Prince Rupert, twice.

Complete with both titles and List of Books Printed for Obadiah Blagrave.

252. [CLODORE (J.)]. Relation de ce qui s'est passé les Iles et Terre-Firme de l'Amerique, pendant la derniere Guerre avec l'Angleterre, et depuis en execution du Traitté de Breda. Avec un Journal du dernier voyage du Sr. de la Barre en la Terre-Firme, et Isle de Cayenne, etc. Par I. C. S. D. V. 2 vols. 12mo, full calf. Paris: Gervais Clouzier, 1671

FIRST EDITION. RARE. This work has been attributed to J. Clodoré, who was Governor of Martinique. He is quite conspicuous throughout the work, and may have been its author. Barbier says the initials of the author stand for J. Clodoré, Secretaire de Vaisseau." This is one of the best accounts of the war between the French and the English, and contains in a great measure a relation of the personal career of La Barre.

253. CLUB OF ODD VOLUMES. The Last Years of Louis XV. Translated from the French of Imbert de Saint-Amand. Portraits of Madame Du Barry and Marie Antoinette, the first in colors. 4to, boards, cloth back. Boston, 1893

Edition limited to 150 copies, printed on handmade paper.

254. COIFFURES. Recueil General de Coeffures de differentes gouts, ou l'on voit la maniere dont se coeffoient les femmes sous differentes regnes. 36 engraved plates of laides' heads with different coiffures, mounted within ornamental borders, on 8vo, boards, representing 76 figures of coiffures engraved by D. Chodowiecki, Endner, Roesmaesler and others, all brilliant impressions, probably collected from the Almanacs edited by Desnos in 177981, which are very rare. 8vo, loose in a cover of old French crimson morocco, elaborately tooled with scroll borders on panels and back in the manner of Derome, gilt inside borders, doublures of green watered silk. Paris, ca 1780

A fine and unusual collection. With the Halsey bookplate.

255. COLDEN (CADWALLADER). History of the Five Indian Nations depending on the Province of New York. With an introduction and notes by John G. Shea. Portrait. 8vo, half morocco, uncut, gilt back and top. New York, 1866.

One of 125 copies printed in octavo size. With bookplate of H. S. Van Duzer.

256. COLERIDGE (S. T.). A Moral and Political Lecture, delivered at Bristol. Handsomely bound in full dark brown levant morocco extra, top edges gilt, by Riviere. Bristol [1795]

FIRST EDITION. One of the rarest of Coleridge issues.

257. COLERIDGE (S. T.). Conciones Ad Populum, or, Addresses to the People. 16mo, newly bound in full polished calf, gilt extra, gilt edges by Riviere.

FIRST EDITION.

n.p., 1795

258. COLERIDGE (S. T.). Poems on Various Subjects. London, 1796; Poems, To which are now added Poems by Charles Lamb and Charles Lloyd, Bristol and London, 1797; Poems, London, 1803. 3 vols., small 8vo, uniformly bound in full blue levant morocco, richly gilt pointille and floral gilt backs and borders, doublures and flys of brown moire silk, gilt tops, uncut, in slip case, by Riviere. London, v.d.

A SUPERB COLLECTION OF THESE RARE VOLUMES, the first volume being the VERY RARE FIRST EDITION. The second volume contains many important additions, including several fresh poems by Coleridge, Lamb and Lloyd. The last volume is important because of the modifications and omissions. The poems of Charles Lamb and C. Lloyd were first omitted from this edition.

259. COLLIER (J. PAYNE). A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English Language, alphabetically arranged. 4 vols., small 8vo, cloth, uncut.

New York, 1866

Picturesque

260. COLORED PLATES. Ireland (Samuel). Views on the River Thames, from its Source in Glocestershire to the Nore; with Observations on the Public Buildings and other Works of Art in its vicinity. Embellished with a large number of views, finely colored by hand. 2 vols., large 8vo, full crimson. levant morocco, gold-tooled corners, backs, and inside borders, gilt tops, uncut, by Wood. London, 1792

Very choice copy of this rare work.

261. COLORED PLATES. Robertson (David). A Tour through the Isle of Man : to which is subjoined A Review of Manks

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