In the Publisher's Deluxe 3/4 Morocco Binding
The Gilded Age a Tale of Today by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner.
Hartford: The American Pubishing Company, 1874.
Price: $300.00
About the item
First edition, mixed state. Fully Illustrated from New Designs by Hoppin, Stephens, Williams, White, Etc., Etc. 1 vols. Large 8vo. Publisher's deluxe 3/4 morocco binding; gilt edging along leather; blind stamped decoratively and in gilt on spine; edge and shelf wear to corners and spine; small stains and rubbing to front; marbled fore edges; marbled endpapers; one fold-out bound in at page 246. BAL 3357.
Item #369661
Although this handsome 3/4 morocco copy bears a title page with the later publication date of 1874, it contains many of the first edition, first issue A points, including: the presence of ads at the rear; Everybody's Friend described in its advertisment as a "true inde"; the artist "White" is present on the title page; the name "Eschol" appears under Chapter V in the table of contents; page 246 has "Hallelujah" with no comma; and on page 280, line 18, this is a period after "Dr. Jackson." In other issue points, however, it differs: the final illustration is numbered 212 on page xvi; the lines on pages 351 and 353 are absent; and there is an illustration on page 403.
