The Prince and the Pauper

Lot 155
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Lot 155 | The Prince and the Pauper
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The Prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain, 1882

CLEMENS, Samuel (“Mark Twain,” 1835-1910). The Prince and the Pauper. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1882.



First American edition, in publisher’s morocco, of Twain’s first historical novel; the inspiration for which struck him, “as early as 1864, when he wrote a letter to his family describing his life in Nevada with the phrase, ‘the old California motto is applicable here: ‘We have lived like paupers that we might give like princes’” (Rasmussen, 369). BAL 3402; Johnson, 39.



Ocatvo (215 x 163mm). Illustrated throughout (a few small tears). Publisher’s brown half morocco with marbled boards, edges and endpapers (worn). Provenance: Kenyon Starling 1905-1983.

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