The Prince and the Pauper

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Lot 154 | The Prince and the Pauper
The Prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain, 1881.

CLEMENS, Samuel (“Mark Twain,” 1835-1910). The Prince and the Pauper. Montreal: Dawson Brothers, 1881.



First edition in scarce wrappers—one of only two copies ever reported at auction by RBH. One of 275 copies. Set in King Henry VIII’s England, Twain’s first historical novel explores issues of class and identity in an imagined scenario wherein Prince Edward VI accidentally switches places with his doppelgänger, a commoner named Tom Canty. According to a 28 November 1881 letter from Twain to his American publisher: “[Mr. Dawson] has printed an edition of 275 [copies], & they are ready to be put into the paper covers.” Although wrappers were unknown to BAL, a copy was recorded in 1984 belonging to the collections of the Mark Twain Memorial and the Stowe-Day Foundation (McBride, 73). BAL 3397; See McBride, Mark Twain: A Bibliography of the Collections of the Mark Twain Memorial and the Stowe-Day Foundation (1984).



12mo (190 x 120mm). Original printed tan wrappers stamped in blue (chipped with some losses to spine panel, neatly repaired); modern quarter morocco clamshell box with felt-lined chemise.

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