TWAIN , Mark. THE TRAGEDY OF PUDD’NHEAD WILSON And the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins. By Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens). With Marginal Illustrations. Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing, 1894. 8vo, 431pp, portrait frontispiece, b&w margin illus. throughout. Publisher’s dark green half morocco over marbled boards, gilt lettering, gilt orn. and rules to compartments, aeg, spine sunned to brown, edgewear, otherwise a tight, internally fine copy in very good binding. ¶ First American Edition, first state with all points as noted in BAL, in the very scarce publisher’s half morocco and marbled boards with a gilt-decorated spine. Originally published serially in the Century Magazine, the first edition was issued in Britain in the same year under the title Pudd’nhead Wilson A Tale… lacking Those Extraordinary Twins. With contemporary newspaper clippings pasted to front endpapers. BAL 3442. Johnson (3d ed.), p.106. Price: USD 650.00 other currencies   order no. 2588    inquire

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