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Second Limited Edition, after the first printing of 1,000 signed copies. This copy # 97 of 500 copies signed by Lawrence at limitation page. Original or early green cloth, gilt lettering at spine, no publisher information but presumed to be Phoenix in Florence, Italy. Ownership bookplate at front pastedown of George C. Marcley, who was a newspaper editor in upstate New York in the 1920's. A Good but less than ideal copy, with modest staining (or tide marked) to lower page edge (lower two inches at earlier pages, decreasing to lower inch at later pages) , leaves 207/208 and 209/210 detached (but present) and with shallow chipping to page inner and outer edges of those two leaves, cloth with expected wear.

New York and Montreal: Lovell, Adam, Wesson & Company, 1877. True First Edition, and very scarce thus. Octavo, original blue cloth stamped in black and gilt. Set in the historic city of Quebec while Canada was still under French rule. Very Good, with light shelf wear, spine ends bumped. No dust jacket.

Philadelphia: David McKay, 1888. See BAL 21433 for a description of this edition. No copies on Worldcat of this edition. BAL located 3 copies plus the Library of Congress copy. Large Octavo, original mustard cloth, gilt lettered, top edge gilt, with other edges untrimmed. Very Good with very little wear.

New York: Carleton, Publisher, 1862. First American Editions. Tall octavo, original purple cloth, blind stamped and gilt lettered at spines. Victor Hugo's classic five-part novel (Fantine, Cosette, Marius, Saint Denis, Jean Valjean). Very Good, some foxing and age toning to pages, some fading to covers to brown from purple.

First Edition. Modern 3/4 leather binding, spine label, marbled boards. This copy nicely inscribed and signed by 'S. E. Thoreau', [Sophia Elizabeth], at front endpaper. Sophia's autograph is uncommonly rare. She did much of the editing of her brother's posthumous works and was a close companion and confidante of Henry's whilst he was alive. She belonged to Concords anti-slavery society, designed the frontis illustration to Walden, ran the family business and protected Henry's legacy after his death. This copy nicely rebound, staining to lower quarter of early and later pages, some nicking to front endpaper.

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. First Edition, Mixed State. Large Octavo, 9 x 6 inches. Scarce in publications leather, 3/4 black leather over black pebbled cloth, gilt lettering and decorations at covers and spine, five raised bands, marbled edges, marbled end papers, more than 300 black and white illustrations, no flames at page 441, page 443 reading The St. Louis Hotel. 'Life on the Mississippi is at once a romantic history of a mighty river; an autobiographical account of Twain s early steamboat days; a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches. It is the raw material from which Mark Twain wrote his finest novel-Huckleberry Finn. It is an epochal record of America s growth, a stirring remembrance of her vanished past. And it earned for its author his first recognition as a serious writer. [This is] a book to be ranked with Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as one of the indisputably great works in the Twain canon. a book that measures the American future by the boundaries of the… Read More

New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh, The Dial Press, 1929. First Edition, 'Advance Copy / Not For Sale' stamped at front endpaper. Politzer dustjacket art. Author's first novel and one of the first crime noir titles. Classic gangster novel and basis for the 1931 film starring Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Glenda Farrell. An uncommon title to be found in the first edition format. Almost Near Fine, mild vertical crease at spine, in Very Good dustjacket, half centimeter loss at top spine end, three centimeter closed tear at top front spine edge, some edges with nicks or wear.

New York: Wallis and Newell Publishers, 1835. First American Edition. Original purple cloth with gilt title at spine, octavo. Novel of a mother and daughter who navigate difficulties after their father (and husband) Lord Lodore is killed in a duel. Nearly Very Good, contemporary previously owner signature at front endpaper, stain to first half of pages at lower inside corner, fading to cloth