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CLEMENS, Samuel (“Mark Twain”) (1835–1910). A group of 16 first editions, including: Mark Twain’s Sketches, New and Old. Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1875. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece, numerous in text illustrations. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt and black (recased preserving original spine). FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE with the repeated footnote on p. 120, and the 11–line skit headed “From Hospital Days” tipped in with the scarce inserted errata slip denying Twain’s authorship. BAL 3364. –– The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1876. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece, numerous in text illustrations. Original blue cloth decorated in gilt and black (backstrip and free endpapers perished). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING printed on wove paper with correct pagination front matter paged [I]–XVI. BAL 3367. –– Life on the Mississippi. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. 8vo. 32 pp. publisher’s catalogue dated March 23 at end. Engraved frontispiece, numerous wood–engravings in text. Original pictorial red cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in black (spine darkened with rubbing along joints and ends, joints cracked). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. BAL 3410. –– The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884. 8vo. Half–title, 32–pp. publisher’s catalogue dated October 1884 at the end. Wood–engraved frontispiece and illustrations in text. Original red pictorial cloth gilt (spine with large tear, reinforced with new cloth, joints cracked and repaired). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. BAL 3414. –– The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1894. 8vo. Portrait frontispiece with Twain’s facsimile autograph measuring 1 7/16” (BAL state A), numerous engraved marginal vignettes. Original brown gilt–lettered cloth stamped in black (some minor fraying to crown). FIRST EDITION with title–page integrally bound and sheets bulk about 1 1/8”. BAL 3442. –– And several others. All 8vo, all in original cloth, all first editions including stories in Harper’s Monthly, condition generally good.