CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain") (1835-1910). A group of 5 titles, including:

The Innocents Abroad. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1869. 2 frontispiece plates, numerous plates and illustrations in text, 5 pp. publisher’s ads at end. Original brown gilt-stamped cloth (joints starting, ends worn). FIRST EDITION, later issue. BAL 3316.

The Innocents Abroad. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1869. 2 frontispiece plates, numerous plates and illustrations in text, 5 pp. publisher’s ads at end. (Some spotting or staining near margins). Original publisher’s sheep (rebacked in modern cloth, covers rubbed, endpapers renewed). FIRST EDITION, intermediate issue: BAL’s first state of p. xviii, p. 129 with no illustration, p. 643 with chapter number XLI, but this copy with page reference numbers on xvii-xviii. BAL 3316.

Prince and the Pauper. A Tale. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1882. Wood-engraved frontispiece, numerous illustrations in text. Original pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt and black (extremities a bit worn, joints starting and partially cracked). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, mixed state: BAL’s first state printing, with Franklin Press imprint on copyright, but this copy with text on p. 124 in corrected state, line 1 reading “canopy of state”. BAL 3402.

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897. Numerous plates including frontispiece, in text illustrations. Original blue cloth affixed with pictorial color label and decorated in gilt (some spotting near hinges, joints cracked). Provenance: Charles Shaffin Jr. (gift inscription dated 1900). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with the Hartford imprint only. BAL 3451. And one other.

Together, 5 works in 5 volumes, condition generally good.