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Mark Twain – The Prince and the Pauper – First UK Edition 1881
£475.00
A first edition, first printing published by Chatto and Windus in 1881. 32 pp of publisher’s ads at rear dated November, 1881, as called for. Second state as usually seen with “fiend” p.8:15. 8vo red cloth stamped in gilt and black; illustrated tissue-guarded frontispiece; 190 illustrations in text. A very good copy with a professional repair to the spine. Two names to the prelims (one to armorial bookplate). Wear to the corners. Second state with “fiends” to page 8.
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A first edition, first printing published by Chatto and Windus in 1881. 32 pp of publisher’s ads at rear dated November, 1881, as called for. Second state as usually seen with “fiend” p.8:15. 8vo red cloth stamped in gilt and black; illustrated tissue-guarded frontispiece; 190 illustrations in text. A very good copy with a professional repair to the spine. Two names to the prelims (one to armorial bookplate). Wear to the corners. Second state with “fiends” to page 8.
