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Mark Twain Connecticut Yankee 1st Edition

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Title: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Author: Twain, Mark
Description: xiv, [15]-575, [1 blank] + [2] ad pp. Illustrated with 44 wood-engraved plates and numerous text illustrations (some full-page) by Dan Beard. (8vo) 8¼x6½, publisher's decorative olive-green cloth stamped in blue-gray, black and gilt, spine gilt, lettered in gilt, blue-gray endpapers patterned in brown. First Edition, First State.Rare earliest state of page 59 with an ornamental "S" between the words "The King." This copy has page [1] wholly blank, some copies have a half-title; BAL concludes that both forms were published simultaneously. BAL 3429.
Heading: zzePlace Published: New York
Publisher: Charles L. Webster
Date Published: 1889