Mark Twain's Sketches, New And Old; Now First Published In Complete Form
Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1875. First edition. Hardcover. 320 pages. 22 x 17 cm. Frontispiece and a host of in text woodcuts. A collection of short stories, all fictional save one. True Williams illustrated this work as well as many others by Twain. Alcohol ended his career. Laid-in an Erratum slip noting, "By an error of the publishers the above sketch, 'From Hospital Days' was inserted in this book. It should not have been, as Mark Twain is not the author of it. It will not appear in any future edition." BAL3364. Wear to backstrip extremities, lower corners rubbed. Orig. publisher's pictorially stamped blue cloth decorated in gilt. Very good. Item #22754
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