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CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (“Mark Twain”) (1835–1910). A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1889. 8vo. Frontispiece, numerous plates and vignettes in text. Half navy blue levant over marbled boards, raised bands, gilt titles in compartments, top edge gilt, others marbled, marbled endpapers, GILT STAMP SIGNED BY DONELLY with binder’s stub bound in (light rubbing to joints). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with p. [i] blank (unknown priority), and caption on p. [59] has an “S”-like ornament between the words “The” and “King” (earliest state). [Bound with:] Mark Twain on Simplified Spelling. New York: The Simplified Spelling Board, 1906. Single leaf folded to four pages. FIRST EDITION, second issue with broken type. BAL 3429, 3493; Johnson p. 77.