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[ZANE GREY’S COPY]. CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain") (1835–1910). Mark Twain’s Sketches, New and Old. Hartford and Chicago: The American Publishing Company, 1875. 8vo. Frontispiece, numerous in–textwoodcuts. Publisher’s original blue cloth pictorially stamped in gilt and black (spine gently darkened with a bit of rubbing at ends, light penciling to upper margin of p. 31); cloth chemise housed in quarter crushed morocco slipcase (spine sunned). Provenance: Zane Grey’s blind–stamp to front free endpaper and first flyleaf. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE with the repeated footnote on p. 120; and the 11–line skit headed “From Hospital Days” with the scarce inserted errata slip denying Twain’s authorship of the piece. BAL 3364; Johnson, p.77.