Item #55543 Punch, Brothers, Punch! And Other Sketches by Mark Twain. Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

Punch, Brothers, Punch! And Other Sketches by Mark Twain.

New York: Slote, Woodman & Co, [1878].

Price: $1,000.00


About the item

First edition: title page with author’s name written in roman, letters missing from p 91, line 4, and 13 lines on p 101. Decorations, advertisements for “Mark Twain's Scrapbooks”on the verso of the last leaf. 140, [ii] pp. 1 vols. Sm. 8vo. Green cloth stamped in black and gilt, terminal paste-down illustration of the scrap book as in BAL binding 1 for cloth binding. Extremities frayed, hinges starting internally, missing free endpapers, signed George Kirby Holmes July 20 '79 on flyleaf. BAL 3378.

Item #55543

Includes the following: “Punch, Brother, Punch;” “Speech on the Weather...;” “Rogers;” “Map of Paris (with Map);” “Random Notes of an Idle Excursion;” “Speech at a Dinner of the Knights of St. Patrick;” “An Encounter with an Interviewer;” “The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence, etc.;” “The Canvasser’s Tale.”.