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CATALOGUE 
 
 OF 
 FIRST AND OTHER EDITIONS OF THE WRITINGS OF 
 
 "MARK TWAIN" 
 
 SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS 
 
 AND OF 
 
 LAFCADIO HEARN 
 
 THE PROPERTY OF 
 
 THE TOMLINSON-HUMES COMPANY 
 
 (IN BANKRUPTCY) 
 
 AND OF 
 
 Mr. MERLE JOHNSON 
 
 TO BE SOLD AT UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE 
 
 ON JANUARY TWENTIETH, 1914 
 
 UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF 
 
 THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION 
 
 AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 
 Madison Square South 
 
 NEW YORK 
 
ON FREE PUBLIC VIEW 
 
 AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 
 
 MADISON SQUARE SOUTH, NEW YORK 
 
 ENTRANCE AT 6 EAST a3d STREET 
 
 BEGINNING THURSDAY, JANUARY 15th, 1914 
 
 AND CONTINUING UNTIL THE DATE OF SALE 
 
 FIRST AND OTHER EDITIONS OF THE WRITINGS OF 
 SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS 
 
 "MARK TWAIN" 
 
 AND OF 
 
 LAFCADIO HEARN 
 
 THE PROPERTY OF 
 
 THE TOMLINSON-HUMES 
 COMPANY 
 
 (IN BANKRUPTCY) 
 
 AND 
 
 Mr. MERLE JOHNSON 
 
 TO BE SOLD AT UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE 
 
 BY ORDER OF THE OWNERS 
 
 ON JANUARY TWENTIETH, 1914 
 
 AT IHE HOURS OF 3.30 IN THE AFTERNOON 
 AND 8.30 IN THE EVENING 
 
 AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 
 
 THE SALE WILL BE CONDUCTED BY 
 
 MR. THOMAS E. KIRBY 
 
 ASSISTED BY Mr. OTTO BERNET 
 OF 
 
 THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, Managers 
 1914 
 
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FOREWORD. 
 
 THE collection of Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) first editions here 
 catalogued is the identical " type "' set from which the " Bibliography ■ 
 of Mark Twain" (Harper, 1909) was compiled. Since that date every 
 effort has been made to add newly discovered material. I am happy to state 
 that no changes have been necessary in the more important items, practically no 
 new information having come to light since 1909- 
 
 As was inevitable, quite' some additions, and a few corrections, have been 
 found necessary among the smaller items. Time has been lacking in which 
 to add one or two such easily secured items as Harper's Christmas, 1882, and 
 " Talks in the Library with Laurence Hutton," newly discovered, and no effort 
 has yet beeji able to unearth a China Paper copy of the " Prince and the 
 Pauper," or a Large Paper copy of " Speeches at the Lotos Club." 
 
 This has been primarily a Bibliography Set, and no attempt has been 
 made to collect unpublished letters, photographs, and reviews ; also, no library 
 would be large enough to contain the various foreign and American reprints ; 
 but, all in all, this collection can probably never be duplicated. 
 
 In apology to those who have added so greatly to its importance by signa- 
 tures and letters it may be said that there was no intention in the beginning 
 of its sale by separate items. The dissolution of The Tomlinson-Humes Co. 
 has sent it to the auction room, but should any purchaser be so fortunate as to 
 secure the main part of the collection, I shall be only too glad to follow its 
 fortunes with my assistance. 
 
 The Hearn collection was also intended for bibliographical purposes, which 
 may shortly be carried out. The set contains many items and variations 
 hitherto unlmown to collectors, and like the Twain collection, is probably the 
 most complete in existence. 
 
 Considering Mr. Hearn's aloofness, and comparatively small circle of inti- 
 mates, the set contains much association material ; three items that were his 
 own personal copies, viz. : " One of Cleopatra's Mghts," " Stray Leaves from 
 Strange Literature," and the hitherto unlisted Large Paper " Japanese Fairy 
 Tales." Also, several books from his library, one being the actual source of 
 his Creole Proverbs, containing his annotations, and the original manuscript 
 of one of his most delightful translations, " The Story of Mimi-I^ashi-H'oichi " 
 written on 48 pages, 12mo, including title, with full autograph signature in 
 two places, and dated " Tokyo, Japan, June 5th, 1903." 
 
 Merle Johnson. 
 Douglaston, Long Island, W. Y. 
 Pecember 29, 1913, 
 
A NOTE BY THE AMEEICAN AET ASSOCIATION. 
 
 WHILE the careful and conscientious labor of Mr. Merle Johnsott, as 
 evidenced in his " Bibliography of Mark Twain," has been made the 
 working basis in the preparation of the cata^logue of the remarkably 
 complete collection about to be dispersed, the Association, by reason of " newly 
 discovered evidence " in some cases, and a frank difference of opinion in a few 
 others, has prepared as its resume of the works of ]\Iark Twain a catalogu£ 
 which it is believed will be of much greater merit than the ordinary auction 
 catalogue, and which for convenience and accuracy will be found of valuable 
 assistance to the actual collector of Twain items, as well as of interest to all 
 readers of this essentially American humorist. 
 
 While it is unusual for a catalogue to contain detailed descriptions, as 
 does the one here presented, and to magnify, as it were, the importance of cer- 
 tain items which are not of the greatest commercial value, nevertheless for 
 the reasons given it has been thought best to adopt the more careful amd pains- 
 taking plan followed, and particularly in the hope that this catalogue at such 
 times as the Bibliography of Mr. Johnson is unobtainable, will avail as a quick 
 and reliable source of information. 
 
 Especial attention should be called to the many items in this collection 
 which are of distinctly " association interest " in that they have not only been 
 autographed by Mark Twain, but in some instances, such as " Tom Sawyer," 
 1876 (No. 59), "Prince and Pauper," 1881 (No. 90), and "A Connecticut 
 Yainkee" (No. 126), are genuine Presentation Copies, the first two having 
 been given to Charles Warren Stoddard, the poet of California, and the remain- 
 ing volume noted to Edmund Clarence Stedman, all the above containing 
 besides Twain's signatures, inscriptions of great interest in the genial humor- 
 ist's own autograph. 
 
 Many of these volumes are autographed, in addition, by the artists who 
 illustrated them, by the publishers who issued them and who have interesting 
 letters inserted, by the editors who have contributed valuable information 
 regarding certain works in letters which speak for themselves, and by others. 
 
 Of the volumes in this collection vs^hich have been autogeaphed 
 BY Make Twain alone there ake 44 ; by Twain and othees, 19 ; and of 
 
 THE WORKS autographed BY ArTISTS, EDITORS, &C., WITHOUT TWAIN, THERE 
 ARE 36. 
 
 Attention should, also, be drawn to the remarkable collection of excerpts 
 and clippings from newspapers and magazines which help to swell the number 
 of items in this unusual set, and which contain a vast amount of Twain mate- 
 rial, some of it of considerable importance, all of it of great interest, and none 
 
of which has been reprinted, and for which the enthusiastic Twainite will look 
 in Tain in any of his favorite author's editions. 
 
 Subject headings have not been adopted for the reason that they were not 
 considered necessary in a catalogue of this character. Care has been used, 
 however, to catalogue items in strict chronological order; Books from No. 1 
 to No. 358, inclusive; Excerpts and Clippings from No. 359 to No. 387; 
 Speeches, &c., from No. 388 to the end of the Twain portion. 
 
 In closing this note relative to the items of the aforesaid portion of cata- 
 logue, it is worth while to quote Mr. Johnson's words as to the value of Twain's 
 works, in particular to the collector of Americana : 
 
 " Personally, I regard most of his better-known works as Americana of 
 the greatest value as impossible to duplicate as the paintings of Eemington 
 depicting an age that has vanished; those books portray the making of the 
 nineteenth century American, his whimsical humor and exaggeration, hi^ 
 roughness, his fineness, his ready sympathy, his strength, his weakness, from 
 boyhood to old age ; they are history, as the Dickens books are history, in the 
 best sense of all." 
 
 What has been said above of the Mark Twain collection can be reiterated 
 in proportionate terms of the smaller but vitally important series of items by 
 Laf cadio Heam, already noted in " Foreword " to this catalogue. 
 
 The list includes besides the Scarce Manuscript mentioned, the hitherto 
 unknown labge papek edition oe the Faiet Tales, together with their 
 Second and Third issues, likewise unnoted until now; Heam's own copy of 
 " One of Cleopatra's Nights " ; two issues of " La Cuisine Creole," but one 
 known heretofore, and a number of volumes used personally by Hearn. 
 
 KecoUect that this is also a "type" set originally intended for biblio- 
 graphical purposes, and in its way as important as the Twain group preceding, 
 it being the most complete colleotion oe Heaen items ever oppeebd pok 
 
 SALE ET public AUCTION. 
 
 American Art Galleries, 
 Madison Square South, 
 New York City. 
 
 THE AMEEICAN ART ASSOCIATION. 
 
The original of this book is in 
 the Cornell University Library. 
 
 There are no known copyright restrictions in 
 the United States on the use of the text. 
 
 http://archive.org/details/cu31924029636713 
 
CATALOGUE OF 
 
 FIRST AND OTHER EDITIONS 
 
 OF THE WRITINGS OF 
 
 SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS 
 
 "MARK TWAIN" 
 
 AND OF 
 
 LAFCADIO HEARN 
 
 THE PROPERTY OF 
 
 THE TOMLINSON-HUMES COMPANY 
 
 (IN BANKRUPTCY) 
 
 AND MR. MERLE JOHNSON 
 
 TO BE SOLD AT UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE 
 BY ORDER OF THE OWNERS 
 
 AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 
 
 MADISON SQUARE SOUTH, NEW YORK 
 ON JANUARY TWENTIETH, 1914 
 
 UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF 
 
 THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION 
 
 MADISON SQUARE SOUTH, NEW YORK 
 
Conditions of Sale 
 
 1. Any bid whicli is merely a nominal or fractional advance may be rejected by the 
 auctioneer, if in his judgment, such bid would be likely to affect the sale injuriously. 
 
 2. The highest bidder shall be' the buyer, and if any dispute arise between two or 
 more bidders, the auctioneer shall either decide the same or put up for re-sale the lot so 
 in dispute. 
 
 3. Payment shall be made of all or such part of the purchase money as may be 
 required, .and : the names g,nd addresses of the purchasers shaU be g^iven l immediately 
 on the sale of every lot, in default of wMch the lot so purchased shall be immediately 
 put up again and re-sold. 
 
 Payment of that part of the purchase money not made at the time of sale, shall be 
 made within ten days thereafter, in default of which the undersigned may either con- 
 tinue to hold the lots at the risk of the purchaser and take such action as may be 
 necessary for the enforcement of the sale, or may at public or private sale, and with- 
 out other than this notice, re-sell the lots for the benefit of such purchaser, and the 
 deficiency (if any) arising from such re-sale, shall be a charge against such purchaser. 
 
 4. Delivery of any purchase will be made only upon payment of the total amount 
 due for all purcha,ses at the sale. ■ 
 
 Deliveries will be made on sales days between the hours of 9 A. M. and 1 P. M., 
 and on other days — except holidays— between the hours of 9 A. M. and 5 P. M. 
 
 Delivery of any purchase will be made only at the American Art Galleries, or 
 other place of sale, as the case may be, and only on presenting the bill of purchase. 
 
 Delivery may be made, at the discretion of the Association, of any purchase during 
 the session of the sale at which it was sold. 
 
 5. Shipping, boxing or wrapping of purchases is a business in which the Associa- 
 tion is in no wise engaged, and will not be performed by the Association for purchasers. 
 The Association, will, however, afford to purchasers every facility for employing at 
 current and reasonable ratis carriers and packers; doing so, however, without any 
 assumption of responsibility oh its part for the acts and charges of the parties 
 engaged for such service. 
 
 6. Storage of any purchase shall be at the sole risk of the purchaser. Title passes 
 upon the fall of the auctioneer's hammer, and thereafter, while the Association will 
 exercise due caution in caring for and delivering such purchase, it will not hold itself 
 responsible if such purchase be lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed. 
 
 Storage charges will be made upon all purchases not removed within ten days from 
 the date of the sale thereof. ^ . 
 
 7. Guarantee is not made either by the owner or the Association of the correct- 
 ness of the description, genuineness or authenticity of any lot, and no sale will be 
 set aside on account of any incorrectness, error of cataloguing, or any imperfection 
 not noted. Every lot is on public exhibition one or more days prior to its sale, after 
 which it is sold "as is" and without recourse. ■ 
 
 The Association exercises great care to catalogue every lot correctly, and will give 
 consideration to the opinion of any trustworthy expert to the effect that any lot has 
 been incorrectly catalogued, and, in its judgment, may either sell the lot as catalogued 
 or make mention of the opinion of such expert, who thereby would become responsible 
 for such damage as might result were his opinion without proper foundation. 
 
 SPECIAL NOTICE. 
 
 Buying or bidding by the Association for responsible parties on orders transmitted 
 to it by mail, telegraph or telephone, will be faithfully attended to without charge or 
 commission. Any purchase so made will be subject to the above Conditions of Sale, 
 which cannot in any manner be modified. The Association, however, in the event of 
 making a purchase of a lot consisting of one or more books for a purchaser who has 
 not, through himself or his agent, been present at the exhibition or sale, will permit 
 such lot to be returned within ten 'days from the date of sale, and the purchase money 
 will be returned, if the lot in any material manner differs from its catalogue descrip- 
 tion. 
 
 Orders for execution by the Association should be written and given with suoh 
 plainness as to leave no room for misunderstanding. Not only should the lot number 
 be given, but also the title, and bids should be stated to be so much for the lot, and 
 when the lot consists of one or more volumes of books or objects of art, the bid per 
 volume or piece should also be stated. If the one transmitting the order is unknown 
 to the Association, a deposit should be sent or reference submitted, phipping direc- 
 tions shoijld also be gi^eo. „ '. ' ! : s ■ ' ' , i 
 
 Priced copies of the catalogue of any sale, or any session thereof, will be furnished 
 by the Association at a reasonable charge., 
 
 AMERICAN AKT ASSOCIATION, 
 
 American Art Galleries, 
 
 Madison Square South, 
 
 New York City. 
 
At The American Art Galleries 
 
 MADISON SQUARE SOUTH, NEW YORK 
 UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE BY ORDER OF THE OWNERS 
 
 First Session, Numbers i to 183, Inclusive 
 
 TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 20th, AT 2.30 O'CLOCK 
 
 THE WRITINGS OF SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS 
 
 ("Mark Twain") 
 
 1. Clemens (Samuel L.)- The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras 
 County, and other Sketches. By Mark Twain. Edited by John Paul 
 [C. H. Webb, the publisher], lemo, ORiGmAL blue cloth^ gilt 
 vignette of frog on front cover, the sapie on back cover, uncolored, 
 binding somewhat worn. New York: G- H. Webb, 1867 
 
 Geiqinal edition, with the autoqeaph '! Mabk Twain " on title- 
 page. This copy is one of the earliest issued of this edition, containing 
 the perfect type on page 198, in which the lower-case letters " i " remain 
 intact (they are badly split in the later First Editions), with the leaf 
 of Advertisements printed on tinted paper and facing title, and the first 
 . printing In book form for all the items. Originally issued in cloth 
 binding of different colors ; but, as Mark Twain mentions in his Auto- 
 biography that the work- was bound, in "blue and gold," such a copy 
 may be preferred by collectors. 
 
 Further details relative to the above, taken from Twain's Autobiog- 
 raphy, may be of interest : . ■ 
 
 " When Artemus Ward passed through California on a lecturing tour, 
 in' 1865 or 1866, I told him ' The Jumping Frog ' story in San Francisco, 
 and he asked me to write it out and send to his publisher Carleton, in 
 New York; to be used in padding out a small book which Artemus had 
 prepared for the press, and which needed some more stuffing to make it 
 big enough for the price which was to be charged for it. 
 
 " It reached Carleton in time, but he didn't think much of it, and was 
 not willing to g6 to the typesetting expense of adding it to the book. 
 He did not put it in the waste-basket, but made Henry Clapp a present 
 of it, and Clapp used it to help out the funeral of his dying literary 
 journal, The Saturday Press. ' The Jumping Frog ' appeared in the last 
 number of that paper, was the most joyous feature of the obsequies, and 
 was at once copied in the newspapers of America and England. 
 
 "I reported my adventure to Webb, and he bravely said that not all 
 the Carletons in the universe should defeat that book; he would publish 
 it himself . . .He brought it out in blue and gold ... He 
 made the plates and printed and bound the book through a job-printing 
 house, and published it through the American News Company." 
 
2. Clemens (Samuel L.). The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras 
 
 Comity, and other Sketches. Edited by John Paul. IBmo, original 
 pictorial paper wrappers. London : George Eoutledge & Sons, 1867 
 FiBST English edition, probably authorized, and published about four 
 months after the Original American edition. 
 
 3. Clemens (Samuel L.). Broadside. "The Public to Mark Twain. Cor- 
 
 respondence." Photographic reprodiiction, size of the original, 
 131/4x5% inches, folded. [San Francisco, 1868] 
 
 Hand-bill announcing Mark Twain's lecture on Venice, an early lecture 
 in California, delivered July 2, 1868. Includes the long letter from him 
 dated June 30, 1868. This hand-bill was reprinted in its entirety in the 
 " Buyer's Manual, 1872," with a somewhat lengthened title. 
 
 4. Clemens (Samuel L.). The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' 
 
 Progress; Being some Account of the Steamship "Quaker City's" 
 pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land. With 234 illus- 
 trations. 8vo, original cloth. 
 
 Hartford, Conn. : American Publishing Company, 1869 
 
 FiBST ISSUE or THE FIBST EDITION, With the following distinguishing 
 points: (1) Page numbers of chapters on last page of "Contents" are 
 lacking at the right; (2) the word "Conclusion" is omitted in bottom 
 line of p. xviii; (3) lower portion of p. 129 blank, portrait of Napoleon 
 III. inserted here in later issues; (4) on p. 643 is printed "Chapter 
 XLI.," Instead of " LXI." Several of these errors were undoubtedly 
 attributable to the hurry of production occasioned by the fact that- the 
 directors of fhe publishing company were inclined to balk on the contract 
 drawn up by Elisha Bliss, and desired to cancel outright, or delay the 
 publication indefinitely. Twain says : 
 
 "At last towards the end of July (1869, I think), I lost patience and 
 telegraphed Bliss that if the book was not on sale in twenty-four hours I 
 should bring suit for damages. That ended the trouble. Half a dozen 
 copies were bound and placed on sale within the required time." . 
 Then the canvassing began and went briskly forward. In nine months 
 the book advanced the American Book Company's stock from twenty- 
 five to two hundred, and left seventy thousand dollars profit to the good." 
 
 Inserted in this copy are, — (1) the printed Prospectus of "Excursion 
 to the Holy Land, Egypt, the Crimea," &c., dated "Brooklyn, Feb. 1, 
 1867"; (2) List of Passengers of the "Quaker City." totalling seventy- 
 five, printed in Bermuda, with entry of " Saml. L. Clemens, San Fran- 
 cisco. Cril." among the others; (3) a poem, 3 pp. 12mo, in the autograph 
 of Bloodgood H. Cutter, the farmer poet, and one of the " Innocents " 
 who was frequently referred to in the work. 
 
 5. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Prospectus of "Pleasure Trip to the Mediter- 
 
 ; ranean and the Black Sea " [issued by] " A Party of gentlemen, who, 
 with their families, desire to visit the East and the shores of the 
 Mediterranean, will charter a First Class Steamer to start on the 
 12th of May, 1866," &c. 1 p. narrow folio, folded. 
 
 This is probably the First Announcement of a type of excursion made 
 famous by that of the " Quaker City." advertised February 1. 1867, and 
 joined in by Mark Twain and others, and which has extended down 
 through the Cook's Tourist Agencies, &c. of the present day. Mr. 
 Oscanyan, the well known Orientalist of his time, would have personally 
 conducted this particular tour, but owing to the appearance of the 
 cholera in the East, the project was postponed to the following year, 
 when the trip of the " Quaker City " was undertaken, and which is 
 described by Twain in " Innocents Abroad." 
 
 The PENCILLED NOTES ON VEBSO OF PBOSPECTUS ABE THOUGHT TO BE IN 
 THE AUTOGBAPH OF TWAIN. PrOPEBTY OF MbRLE JoHNSON. 
 
6. Clemens (Samuel L.). Tlie Innocents Abroad^ or The New Pilgrims' 
 
 Progress, &c. 8vo, original clotli. 
 
 Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1869 
 
 First edition, ordinary issue, with the errors noted in Item No. 4, all 
 corrected, viz., — the page numbers properly supplied; the word "Conclu- 
 sion " added on line ; the chapter on p. 643 headed aright ; and Napoleon 
 Third's portrait printed on p. 129. Hence, instead of 234 illustrations 
 as printed on title-page, this edition contains two hundred and thirty- 
 five. 
 
 7. Clemens (Samuel L.). The Innocents Abroad, A Book of Travel in Pur- 
 
 suit of Pleasure. By Mark Twain. "With an Introduction by Ed- 
 . ward P. Hingston. The Voyage Out. 16mo, original pictorial wrap- 
 pers. London: John Camden Hotten, [ISYO] 
 
 The unauthorized First English Edition of the first half of the original 
 work, which, together with " The New Pilgrim's Progress " catalogued 
 following, were reprinted by Hotten without permission. Each volume 
 carries the publisher's lists of 1S70, and is listed by the Spectator May 14, 
 of that year. 
 
 8. Clemens (Samuel L.). The New Pilgrim's Progress. A Book of Travel 
 
 in Pursuit of Pleasure. By Mark Twain. The Journey Home. 
 16mo, original pictorial wrappers. . 
 
 London: John Camden Hotten, [1870] 
 The unauthorized First English Edition of the second half of " Inno- 
 cents Abroad." This and the preceding number were published about 
 the same time, and two years before the authorized English edition 
 issued by Routledge. 
 
 9. Clemens (Samuel L.). The Piccadilly Annual of Entertaining Litera- 
 
 ture, Retrospective and Contemporary. Charles Dickens, Long- 
 fellow, Theodore Taylor [and 9 others, including Mark Twain]. 
 With pictures hy W. M. Thackeray, liolman Hunt, Du Maurier, Mor- 
 ten, Lawless, Eltze, Messonnier, Sine, and Lawson. 8vo, original 
 pictorial wrappers. London: John Camden Hotten, [1870] 
 
 Contains five pieces by Mark Twain, taken, mainly, from the Galaxy, 
 without permission. They are, — " Story of the Good Little Boy," p. 25 ; 
 ""Wit-Inspirations of the Two-Xear-Olds," p. 26; "The Late Benjamin 
 FrankliE," p. 28; " Higgins," p. 57; "Hogwash (A Touching Incident)," 
 
 p. 81. AlX FIRST PRINTINGS IN BOOK FORSr. ' 
 
 The FIRST ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION with the advertisements inside 
 front and back covers, and the " Preliminary " paster, in front, dated 
 December, 1870. Also, contains several lines of Mr. Johnson's biblio- 
 graphical memoranda in pencil on title-page. " Price One Shilling " is 
 printed in red above the line border on front cover. 
 
 10. Clemens (Samuel L.-). The Piccadilly Annual of Entertaining Litera- 
 
 ture, &c. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers. 
 
 London: John Camden Hotten, [1870] 
 
 Probably the second issue of the First Edition, without the advertise- 
 ments [except on back cover], the "Preliminary" paster, the line in red 
 on top front cover, " Price One Shilling," and bibliographical memoranda. 
 
11. Clemens (Samuel L.). Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and 
 First Eomance. Vignette on title, — " Our Family Tree" and other 
 illustrations. ISmo, original paper covers. 
 
 New York: Sheldon & Company, [1871] 
 
 FiBST ISSUE OP THE FIRST EDITION, With the copynglit notice in centre 
 of inside front cover, without any advertisement, and the electrotypers' 
 name at foot of same page. The cover of this copy is actually the title- 
 page, and is thus used in the cloth copies of the same edition, as noted 
 below. 
 
 Autograph of "Mark Twain" at the head of first page of text. Ad- 
 vertisements of the Galaxy magazine on back cover. 
 
 13. Clemens (Samuel L.). Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and 
 First Eomance. Vignette, as above, on title, and other illustrations. 
 ISmo, original green cloth. 
 
 New York: Sheldon & Company, [1871] 
 Another Copy of the piest issue of the fibst edition, with the copy- 
 right notice, &c. same as. in preceding copy. Advertisement of the Galaxy 
 magazine on back of final page. 
 
 Autographed, " Mark Twain " by the author, on inside front cover. 
 
 13. Clemens (Samuel L.). Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and 
 
 First Eomance. Vignette on title, as above, and other illustrations. 
 12mo, original brown cloth. 
 
 New York: Sheldon & Company, [1871] 
 Second Edition, with advertisement of the Galaxy magazine, on back 
 of last page, and the announcement of Ball, Black & Co. on verso of 
 title-page. 
 
 14. Clemens (Samuel L.). Mark Twain's (Burlesque) I. Autobiography. 
 
 II. Mediaeval Eomance. III. On Children. 16mo, origiual pictorial 
 wrappers. London: John Camden Hotten, [1871] 
 
 The unauthorized First English Edition of Nos. I. and II. Mark Twain 
 repudiates the authorship of "On Children." With the publishers' lists 
 for 1871. 
 
 15. Clemens (Samuel L.). Mark Twain's Memoranda. From the Galaxy. 
 
 Portrait of the author On front cover, and illustrations. 8vo, original 
 buff-colored paper wrappers, portion of lower right-hand corner of 
 front cover torn away. Toronto : C. A. Backas, 1871 
 
 The veet eabe first edition, in the oeiginal buff-coloeed weai-pees, 
 WITH Twain's poeteait and magazine advertisement on covees. 
 
 Contains many small contributions, captioned and uncaptioned, in- 
 cluding,— " The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract"; "How I 
 Edited an Agricultural Paper " ; " The Late Benjamin Franklin " ; " John 
 Chinaman in New York"; "The Danger of Lying in Bed"; and many 
 others. 
 
 According to Mr. Johnson, — "Memoranda is the great volume of 
 mystery for the Twain collector. Not only is it very rare, but since it 
 is a 'pirated' book, the date of its printing has gone unrecorded and 
 may never be certified. It contains, with half a dozen exceptions, the 
 series of paragraphs contributed by Mark Twain to the Galaxy magazine 
 in 1870-1. Practically the same material, with a few more omissions of 
 the Galaxy material, and the addition of the ' Mediaeval Romance ' appears 
 in ' Screamers ' and ' Eye Openers,' companion volumes published in 
 [May-August?], 1871, by Hotten in London. None of the three contains 
 the Galaxy contributions for April, 1871, and all of them contain articles 
 from February, 1871. This is the third and last output of paragraphic 
 material from Twain's pen." 
 
16. Cle:mkxs (Samuel L.). Eye Openers. Good Things. Inimensel3' Funny 
 
 Sayings and Stories that will bring a Smile upon the G-ruffeat 
 Countenance. By Mark Twain. Vignette on front cover, (repeated on 
 fly leaf), and title-page. 16mOj original pictorial paper wrappers. 
 
 London: John Camden Hotten, [1871] 
 
 Tliis item, together with the preceding " Memoranda " and the follow- 
 ing '• Screamers " were entirely unauthorized, and it is practically 
 impossible to determine which of the three appeared first. Provided 
 " Memoranda " is given the prefex'ence, the article " Journalism in 
 Tennessee " may be considered the only one in this volume as First 
 Edition. Contains several pieces not included in " Innocents Abroad." 
 
 17. Clemens (Samuel L.). Screamers. A Gathering of Scraps of Humour, 
 
 Delicious Bits, & Short Stories. By Mark Twain. Vignettes on front 
 cover, flyleaf, and title-page. 16mOj original pictorial paper wrap- 
 pers. London: John Camden Hotten, [1871] 
 
 Allowing " Memoranda " as First Edition, " Screamers " includes First 
 Editions of the following ; — " Holiday Literature," " Baker's Cat," " Soda- 
 Water," " The Undertaker's Story," " A Travelling Show," and " About 
 Barbers." Twain denied the authorship of several pieces contained in 
 this volume, for letter concerning which see " Lectures of Bret Harte, 
 1909." 
 
 18. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] The Dime Dialogues Ko. 10: For Homes, 
 
 Schools and Exhibitions. Vignette on front cover. 16mo, original 
 pictorial paper wrappers. 
 
 New York: Beadle and Company, [1871] 
 
 First editiox. Contains, — " Mrs. Mark Twain's Shoe," set down in the 
 Table of Contents, to be by " Mark Twain." Mr. Johnson has auto- 
 graphed against this, " Do not consider this authentic." 
 
 19. Clemens (Samuel L.). Th. last's Illustrated Almanac for 1873. 
 
 Vignette of "merry-go-round" on front cover. 12mo, original pic- 
 torial wrappers. ISTew York : Harper & Brothers, 1873 
 
 Although Mr. Johnson lists this copy as First Edition, it is not so 
 in reality, as it contains the reprinted pieces, — " The Late Benjamin 
 Franklin," which appeared in the "Piccadilly Annual" in 1870, and 
 " Advice to Little Girls," published in the " Jumping Frog " in 1867. 
 The Franklin item noted is, however, printed here for the First Time in 
 America. 
 
 SO. Clemens (Samuel L.). Public and Parlor Readings. Prose and Poetry 
 for the Use of Eeading Clubs and for Public and Social Entertain- 
 ment. Humorous. Edited by Lewis B. Monroe. 13mo, original 
 cloth, slightly rubbed. Boston: Lee and Sliepard, 1872 
 
 First edition, in all probability, as the volume was copyrighted in 
 1S71 and issued, very likely, late that year, thus preceding "The 
 Buyers' Manual," which carries advertisements for 1872. Hence, the 
 article,^" My First Interview with Artemus Ward," pp. 126-129, is the 
 . First Printing, with the name of the author as " S. J. Clemens." Not 
 listed in Mr. Johnson's Bibliography. 
 
31. Clemens (Samuel L.). Eoughing It. By Mark Twain. Fully Illus- 
 trated by Eminent Artists. (Issued by Subscription only and_ not 
 for Sale in Book-Stores). Full page plates, and text illustrations. 
 8vo, original cloth. 
 
 Hartford, Conn: American Publishing Company, 1871 
 
 Obiginal sheets of this wokk issued some time peioe to the regular 
 piEST EDITION. About 100 pages, including illustrations, used by the 
 Agents as advance sheets with copyright and title both dated 1871, 
 although copy filed in Washington was dated February, 1872. Contains- 
 the perfect letters, " Cap M " in first line of Contents, and the letter 
 " y " in the word " My " in the first word of Chapter I., which were 
 broken in later impressions. Title of this prospectus lacks the imprint 
 ' of " A. Roman and Co." which is incorporated in the regular First Edi- 
 tion, as below. Contains specimen-back of calf binding, pasted on inside 
 back cover. 
 
 22. Clemens (Samuel L.). Eoughing 'It. By Mark Twain. Fully illus- 
 trated by eminent artists. (Issued by Subscription only and not for 
 Sale in Book-Stores). Svo, original cloth, stamped gilt vignette, on 
 front cover. 
 
 Hartford, Conn. : American Publishing' Company, 1873 
 
 FiEST EDITION, AND EAELT IMPRESSION, With the perfect letters " M " and 
 " y," as noted above, the name of A. Roman & Co., incorporated In the 
 publishers' imprint, &c. The English edition of same date was issued 
 in two volumes, — "Roughing It" and "Innocents at Home." (See fol- 
 lowing.) With etched bookplate of Edward S. Marsh. 
 
 S3. Clemens (Samuel L.). "Eoughing It." By Mark Twain. Copyright 
 Edition. Vignette in black and yellow on front cover. 16mo, orig- 
 inal pictorial boards, portions of both covers missing. 
 
 London: George Boutledge and Sons, [1873] 
 
 The original authorized English first edition, containing, however, 
 but forty-five chapters of the American work. The balance appeared 
 under the caption, — ■" Innocents at Home." The Spectator's publication 
 date of the above and the volume following is February 10. 1872, which 
 would make the English edition a little over a week- earlier than the 
 American book. 
 
 34. Clemens (Saiiuel L.). The Innocents at Home. By Mark Twain. 
 Copyright Edition. Vignette in red and yellow on front cover. 
 16mo, original pictorial boards. 
 
 London: George Eoutledge and Sons, [1873] 
 
 Original first English edition, second part, published the same time 
 as the item preceding. This edition of " Roughing It " appeared in two 
 volumes with the separate titles as noted. 
 
 25. Clemens (Samuel L.). A Curious Dream; and other Sketches;. Bv 
 Mark Twain. Selected and Eevised l3y the Author. Vignette of 
 "Mr. Bones " on front cover. 16mo, original pictorial boards, writ- 
 ing on title. London: George Eoutledge & Sons, [1872] 
 
 Copyright English Edition. An authorized publication, containing 
 fifteen pieces by Mark Twain all but one [" Facts in the Case of George 
 Fisher, Deceased,"] printed here in book form for the First Time. The 
 ma,iority of these articles appeared in the Buffalo Express in 1869 and 
 1870. 
 
26. Clemens (Samuel L.). Mark Twain's Sketches. Selected and Kevised 
 
 by the Author. Copyright Edition. Vignette of " frog " on front 
 cover. 16mOj original pictorial boards; somewhat rubbed. 
 
 London : George Routledge and Sons, 1872 
 
 Authorized English Edition contaiuiug the following " Author's Ad- 
 vertisement " dated " Hartford, 1872 " over the printed signattire " Mark 
 Twain " ; ' 
 
 " Messrs. George Routledge and Sons are the only English publishers 
 who pay me any copyright on my books. That is something; but a 
 courtesy which I prize even more, is the opportunity which they have 
 given me to edit and revise the matter for publication myself. This 
 enables me to leave out a good deal of literature which has appeared in 
 England over my name, but which I never wrote. And, as far as this 
 particular volume is concerned, it also enables me to add a number of 
 sketches which I did write, but which have not heretofore been published 
 abroad. This book contains all of my sketches which I feel at all 
 willing to father." 
 
 This is the First Printing in book form of the " Author's Advertise- 
 ment," "Prefatory," and "Cannibalism in the Cars." 
 
 27. Clemens (Samuel L.). Practical Jokes with Artemus "Ward, Including 
 
 the Story of the ilan Who Fought Cats. By Mark Twain and other 
 Humourists. Vignette of "man and cats" on front cover in Hue 
 with reddish tint. 16mo, original pictorial paper wrappers. 
 
 Loudon: John Camden Hotten, [1872] 
 
 An unauthorized edition. Contains nearly forty sketches, which are all 
 unsigned, thus making it difficult to determine which are by Mark Twain 
 and which by the " other humorists." Mr. Johnson states that " most 
 of the contents are authentically Mark Twain." but questions nine 
 sketches. First Edition of all the Twain items except six, yiz. : " How 
 Mark Twain was sold in Newark," " Mark Twain's Remarkable Stranger," 
 " To Raise Poultry," " Mark Twain's Californiau Experience." " Mark 
 Twain's Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy," and " Mark Twain's Tone- 
 Imparting Committee," 
 
 28. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] The Buyers' Manual and Business Guide 
 
 with Copious and Readable Selections cluefiy frum Cali- 
 fornia "Writers. Compiled by J. Price and C. S. Haley. Svo^ original 
 cloth, portion of front cover water-stained. 
 
 San Francisco: Francis and Valentine, 1872 
 
 Mark Twain is represented herein by four sketches, viz., " The Jump- 
 ing Frog," ''Entertaining History of the Scriptural Panoramist," "The 
 Public to Mark Twain^His Reply." " !Mark Twain's First Interview with 
 Artemus Ward." First Edition of the ' Entertaining History, &c.." and. 
 probably, the First American Edition of " Mark Twain's First Interview, 
 Ac," this latter sketch being dependent upon the priority of the issue of 
 the " Buyers' Manual " over that of " Pj-aetical Jokes." The other sketches 
 are reprints. 
 
 29. Clemens (Samuel L.). The Lmocents Abroad. By ]\tark Twain. Copy- 
 
 righted. 16mo, original pictorial wrappers. 
 
 London: George Eoutledge and Sons, [1872] 
 
 First authobized English edition, containing the new " Preface to the 
 English Edition," dated " Hartford, U. S., July, 1S72." which is, in part, 
 as follows : 
 
 " At the request of Messrs. George Routledge and Sons, I have made a 
 jiatient and conscientious revision of this book for republication in Eng- 
 
land, and liaA-e weeded out of it nearly, if not quite, all of the most 
 palpable and inexcusable of its blemishes. At the same time I have 
 wrought into almost every chapter additions vi^hich cannot fail to aug- 
 ment the attractions of the book, or diminish them." 
 
 This volume comprises Chapters I. to XXXI. of the original American 
 edition, the same portion as pirated by Hotten. [See Xo. 7.] 
 
 30. Clemens (Samuel L.). The New Pilgrims' Progress. By Mark Twain. 
 
 A'utlior's English Edition. 16mo, original pictorial wrappers. 
 
 London: George Eoiitledge and Sons, [1873] 
 
 FlEST AUTHOBIZED EXOLISH EOTTIOX OF THE SECOND PABT OF " INXOCEXTS 
 
 Abkoad," issued under the same title as that adopted by Hotten in his 
 pirated edition. Contains a " Preface To the English Reader," dated 
 " Hartford, XJ. S. A., July, 1S72," 2 pp. [See Xo. 8.] 
 
 31. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Tom Hood's Comic Annual for 1873. With 
 
 twenty-three paga of illustrations by the Brothers Dalziel. Small 
 4to, original pictorial wrappers, pencilled bibliographical comment 
 by J\lr. Johnson on title. 
 
 London: Published at the Fun Office, [1872] 
 Contains the first appearance of Mark Twain's " How I escaped being 
 killed in a Duel," which was later retold in his Autobiography. 
 
 32. Clemens (Samuel L.). Th. Xast's Illustrated Almanac for 1873. Cut 
 
 of " merry-go-round- "on front cover. Square, 12mo, original pictorial 
 wrappers. New York : Harper and Brothers, [1872] 
 
 First American edition of Mark Twain's " Story of the Good Little 
 Boy who did not Prosper." Originally appeared in the Piccadilly Annual 
 ip England in 1870. 
 
 33. Clemens (Samuel L.). A Book for an Hour, containing Choice Eeading 
 
 and Character Sketches. A Curious Dream, and other Sketches, re- 
 vised and selected for this Work by the Author, ilark Twain. Also, 
 Examples of Microscopic Printing. Illustrations. 8vo, original blue 
 pictorial wrappers. New York: [B. J. Such], 1873 
 
 Autograph of Mark Twain on title-page, and the word " Yes " and 
 initials " S. L. C." by the same on verso of front cover, under the ques- 
 tion, — "Is til is a pirate cditionf" 
 
 Contains six sketches by Twain, viz. — " A Curious Dream." " My Late 
 Senatorial Secretaryship," ' The New Crime," " Back from Yurrup," 
 " More Distinction," " A Self-Made Man." 
 
 FiBST edition for " Self-Made Man " and First American Edition for 
 the others. 
 
 34. Clemens (Samuel L.). Another Copy, in light brown wrappers, not 
 
 autographed. 
 
 35. Clemens (Samuel L.). The Choice Humorous Works of Mark Twain. 
 
 Now First Collected ; with Extra Passages to the " Innocents 
 Abroad," now First Eeprinted, and a Life of the Author. Illustra- 
 tions hy Marie Twain and other Artists; also Portrait of the Author. 
 Thick 13mo, original cloth. 
 
 London: John Camden Hotten, [1873] 
 First edition of, — " Information Wanted," " How I Secured a Berth," 
 and "Mark Twain as George Washington." Biographical sketch of 
 Twain's life by John Camden Hotten, included in volume. 
 
3,6. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] One Hundred Choice Selections, No.. 6. Com- 
 piled and Arranged by Phineas Garrett. 13nio, original cloth, some- 
 what stained. Philadelphia and ChicagOj 1873 
 
 Contains an early ^^ketch eutitled "' Mlu-Ic Twain on Juvenile Pugilists, 
 which, apparently, lias never been reprinted. 
 
 37. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Th. NastV Illustrated Almanac for 1814. Cut 
 
 of " merry-go-round " on front cover. 12mo, original pictorial wrap- 
 pers. New York: Harper and Brothers, [1873] 
 
 Contains the First American appearance of " A Deception," which was 
 originally issued in England in 1872. 
 
 38. Clemens (Samuel L.). The Gilded Age. A Tale of To-Day. By Mark 
 
 Twain and Charles Dudley Warner. Fully illustrated from new de- 
 signs, hy Hoppirb, Stephens, Williams, White, &c. 8vo, original cloth, 
 gilt. 
 
 Hartford: American Publishing Company; F. G. Gilman & Co., 
 Chicago, 1873 
 
 Phobaely the original issue ov the first edition, with the absence of 
 the woodcut on p. 403, a ihstixguishing sign, although cut is called toi- 
 in the List of Illustrations. Illustration was afterwards supplied, even 
 in some copies dated 1873. [See item following.] 
 
 Mr. Johnson in his bibliography gives preference to the issue with 
 imprint, — " Hartford : American Publishing Company, 1S74," without the 
 name of any general agent, upon the ground that certain unbound copies 
 sent out for reviewing purposes are of tiiis variety. But he states further 
 that title-pages, identical witli the one in x>resent volume dated 1873, were 
 issued at the same time, and, also, mentions the fact that he has a 
 presentation copy with inscription dated " Deccinhcr 2-'/, J873." 
 
 Laid in is a type-written copy, 12 pp. Svo, of Chapter 4.S of the original 
 manuscript which contains material upon the " Solid South," suppressed 
 by the publishers as its publication might have hurt the sale of the 
 volume among the Southerners. 
 
 Also laid in is a L. S., 1 p. 4to. from Mt-. Walter Bliss, who has now 
 succeeded to the business of the American Publishing Co.. stating that the 
 " lad' of cut oil p. 'i<Ki Ocicrmincs the Heal First Edition, de." 
 
 Relative to the name " Eschol Sellers" for one of the principal char- 
 acters of the book, and which formerly was thought to be another dis- 
 tinguishing mark of the Original Edition, it would seem that this name 
 ran through several editions and. hence, cannot have any beai-ing upon the 
 actual first printing. 
 
 39. Clemens (Samuel L.). The Gilded Age. A Tale of To-Day. By Mark 
 
 Twain and Charles Dudley Warner. Fiolly illustrated from Neiv De- 
 signs hy Hoppin, Stephens, Williams, White, <£c. 8vo, original cloth. 
 Hartford: American Publishing Company; P. G. Gilman & Co., 
 Chicago, 1873 
 
 Second issuk of the first edition, with the woodcut on r. 4():-J. 
 
 Relative to the more or less cabalistic mottoes used as Chapter head- 
 ings in both issues of the work, it may be of interest to note that they 
 were furnished by James H. Trumbull, Librarian of the Wadsworth 
 Library, Hartford, Conn. 
 
 The name " Eschol " does not appear to have been altered to " Mul- 
 berry " until the story was dramatized and put on the stage with John T. 
 Raymond in the title role. 
 
40. Clemens (Samuel L.)- The Gilded Age. A Novel. By Mark Twain 
 
 and Charles Dudley Warner, illustrations. 3 vols. ISmo, original 
 cloth, binding somewhat soiled. 
 
 London: George Eoutledge and Sons, 1874 
 
 First English edition with the " Authob's Pbeface to the London 
 Edition," dated The Lanffham Hotel, London, December 11, 1873, wherein 
 he speaks regarding the corruption in American politics, closing thus : 
 
 "But I have strong faith in a noble future for toy country. A vast 
 majority of the people are straightforward and honest ; and this late state 
 of things is stirring them to action [disruption of the Tweed ring, &c.]. 
 If it would only keep on stirring them until it became the habit of their 
 lives to attend to the politics of the country personally, &c." 
 
 Mr. Johnson had not seen a copy of this English Edition at the time of 
 publication of his bibliography. 
 
 41. Clemens (Samuel L.). The Gilded Age. A Tale of To-Day. By Mark 
 
 Twain and Charles Dudley Warner. Fully illustrated from new de- 
 signs by Hopvin, Stephens, Williams, &c. [A^Tiite's name omitted]. 
 8vo, new half brown morocco, gilt, gilt top. 
 
 Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1873 
 
 Me. Johnson's own copy, and peobably the only copy known. Con- 
 cerning this volume we quote from the Bibliography as follows : 
 
 " Much confusion has been injected into the first edition question of this 
 Ijook by the existence of a title-page bearing " American Publishing Com- 
 pany, 1873." It is almost certain that this was printed separately by a 
 firm desiring to evade subscription restrictions, and substituted for the 
 original page. It lacks the name of one of the illustrators. White, and 
 on the reverse the name of the electrotyper is omitted, and is in a different 
 faced type from other printings, ilr. Bliss, of the American Publishing 
 Company, certifies that no such fonts of type were in the possession of 
 his company." 
 
 42. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Tom Hood's Comic Annual for 1874. With 
 
 3S pages of illustrations by the Brothers Dalziel. Small 4to, original 
 pictorial wrappers. London : Published at the Fun Office, [1873] 
 
 Contains the first " book " appearance of Mark Twain's sketch of " Jim 
 Wolfe and the Cats," which is here printed under the caption " A Yankee 
 Story " aud "signed " G. K. Wadleigh." It was first printed in the New 
 York Sunday Mercury in 1867, and its First American book-printing was 
 in Garrett's " One Hundred Choice Selections, No. 17." 
 
 Wadleigh w"as an American who became stranded in London, and to 
 whom Twain loaned money besides introducing him to Hood, who pur- 
 chased Wadleigh's tale as he wrote it out from the verbal narrative of 
 Twain, who, of course, had no idea that it would be used in the manner 
 noted. 
 
 43. Clemens (Samuel L.). Number One. ]\rark Twain's Sketches. Atithor- 
 
 ized Edition. With illustrations by R. T. Sperry. Svo, original pic- 
 torial wrappers, name of J. A. Bagley on title, two corners damaged. 
 New York: American News Company, [1874] 
 
 FlEST ISSUE OF THE FIBST EDITION WITH THE BEAR COVEE BLANK. 
 
 First edition for " A Memorable Midnight Experience." and " Rogers," 
 and the First American Edition for all but two of the others. 
 
 44. Clemens (Samuel L.). Number One. ]\[ark Twain's Sketches. Author- 
 
 ized Edition. With illustrations by R. T. Sperry. Rvo, original pic- 
 torial wrappers. New York: American News Company, [1874] 
 
 Second Issue of the First Edition, with advertisement of the " Aetna 
 Life Insurance Co." on verso of rear cover. 
 
 Autographed by Mark Twain on title-page, — " Truly Yours. Mark 
 Tiroin." 
 
45. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Beeclier's Eecitations and Eeadings. Humor- 
 
 ous, Serious, Dramatic, including Prose and Poetical Selections in 
 Dutch, French, Yankee, Irish, Backwoods, Negro, and other Dialects. 
 Edited by Alvah C. Beecher. IGmo^ original boards, cloth back. 
 
 New York : Dick & Fitzgerald, [1874] 
 Contains, — " Jim Wolfe and the Cats," " An Introduction," " That l>og 
 of Jim Smiley's," "The Celebrated Jumping Frog," and " Aurelia's Un- 
 fortunate Young Man." Thought to be first book-printings of second and 
 third items noted. 
 
 46. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Lotos Leaves. Original Stories, Essays, and 
 
 Poems, by Whitelaw Reid, Wilkie Collins, Mark Twain, [and 
 others]. Edited by John Brougham and John Elderkin. Illustrated. 
 Square 8to, original brown cloth, gilt, gilt edges. 
 
 Boston: William F. Gill and Company, 1875 
 This is a copy of the edition printed on thick paper for the members ot 
 the Lotos Club, for whom the work was compiled and the profits of which 
 went to the American Dramatic Fund. Contains Mark Twain's " An 
 Encounter with an Interviewer." Inserted is an A. L. S., from John 
 Elderkin, and the publishers' autographed certification that this copy is 
 the " Club Edition." 
 
 47. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Lotos Leaves. Original Stories, Poems, and 
 
 Essays, by The Great Writers of America and England, Mark Twain, 
 Wilkie Collins, Petroleum V. Nasby, and others. Edited by Jolin 
 Brougham and John Elderkin. Superbly illustrated. Square 8vo, 
 brown cloth, gilt, gilt edges. 
 
 Boston: William F. Gill and Company (Press of Eockwell and 
 Churchill), 1875 
 
 Another issue of the preceding, but printed by a different firm, and with 
 a new title-page, another cover-design, &c. Probably a second issins. 
 
 48. [Clemens (Sa:*iuel L.).] Lotos Leaves. Original Stories, Essays, and 
 
 Poems, &c. Edited by John Brougham and John Elderkin. Illus- 
 trated. Square 8vo, original green cloth, gilt edges. 
 
 Boston : William E. Gill and Company, 1875 
 Published Edition, printed on thinner paper and with cover-design 
 similar to preceding number, but in other respects the same as the " Club " 
 edition. 
 
 49. [Clemens (Sajxuel L.). Lotos Leaves. Stories. Essays and Poems, 
 
 by Members of the Lotos Club. ^Yit'h numerous illustrations. Square 
 8vo, original green cloth, gilt, gilt edges. 
 
 London: Chatto and Windus, 1875 
 First English Edition with new title-page printed in black and red. 
 Lacks the Dedication to Tennyson, facsimile letter of his acceptance, and 
 the Preface of the American edition. Dated 1875, and probably issued 
 that year, but not for some months after the appearance of the American 
 work, the copyright of which, although made December 12, 1S74, was not 
 filed in Washington until the latter part of January, 1875. 
 
 50. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Laughing Gas. A Eepository of Fun, Wit 
 
 and Humor. By Dr. J. Jay Villiers, the Celebrated American 
 Humorist. 8vo, original pictorial paper wrappers. 
 
 New York: J. S. Ogilvie and Co., [circa 187J:] 
 
 Described in Mr. Johnson's Bibliography (pp. 104-105), with date of 
 
 publication as, '" sometime in the early '70S." Two things, however, would 
 
seem to locate this date sometime in 18T4, viz.— (1) On verso o^ ^'"^|^, 
 wrapper is advertisement of " Healtli Hints, a new book just published, 
 which nevertheless, was recorded in the American Catalogue of 1873; 
 (2) The sketch "Putting Up Stoves," was printed in the Septasoph 
 magazine, Baltimore, January, 1874, as " by Mark Twain." 
 ■ The stories of the " Legal Way," " Seafaring," " Sewing on a Button, 
 "Salt, Pepper and Mustard," "A Mysterious Box," "Late News from 
 England," and a few others are probably taken from California news- 
 papers, and may be by Twain, although unsigned. 
 
 51. Clemeks (Samuel L.). Mark Twain's Speech on Accident Insurance. 
 4pp., 24mo. Hartford [1874] 
 
 The identical sheet, with manusckipt alteHations by Mark Twaix, 
 used for " copy " in his " Sketches New and Old, 1875 ", in which col- 
 lection this speech was reprinted. Originally delivered at a dinner given 
 to Cornelius Walford, of London, at the Allyn House in Hartford some 
 time in 1874, probably. Twain was a director of the Hartford Accident 
 Insurance Co. under whose auspices the dinner was given. 
 
 53. Clemens (Samuel L.). Mark Twain's Sketches, Xew and tJld. Xow 
 Mrst Published in Complete Form. Numerous illustrations. Square 
 8vo, original cloth, giltj gilt edges. 
 
 Hartford, Conn. : The American Publishing Co., 18T5 
 
 Fikst issue of the riRST edition, with the sketch " From Hospital 
 Days" on p. 299 [omitted in subsequent editions], and the footnote on 
 p. 119 duplicated on p. 120. Includes, also, the paster-leaf of Erratum, — 
 " 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." 
 
 As the copy for the above is entirely in the handwriting of Mr. 
 Clemens, the elimination by him of the name " Jane Stuart Woolsey " 
 thereon, can not be considered conclusive evidence of his non-authorship 
 of the sketch. 
 
 This volume is really First Edition for over a dozen pieces aiid the 
 First American Edition for a number of others. The " Jumping Frog " 
 as herein printed contains portions in French, &c. which are additions to 
 the tale as originally composed. 
 
 Autographed by Mark Twain on inside front cover, and the initials, 
 " S. L. C." on fly-leaf. 
 
 53. Clemens (Samuel L.). Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old. Xow 
 
 First Published in Complete Form. Numerous illustrations. Square 
 8vo, original cloth, gilt. 
 
 Hartford, Conn. : The American Publishing Co., 1875 
 
 ■Second issue of the original edition with the omission of the duplicate 
 " note " on p. 120, and the paragraph " From Hospital Days " removed 
 from p. 299. Autographed by Mark Twain on verso of front cover. 
 
 54. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] The Curious Eepublic of Gondour. [Excerpt 
 
 from the Atlantic Monthly for October, 1875.] 6pp. 8\(), loose 
 sheets. 
 
 A quaint conceit regarding " mortal " and " immortal " votes in this 
 curious Republic. While the article appears anonymously, Mr. Johnson 
 unhesitatingly gives the credit of it to Twain. 
 
 Peopeety of Mekle Johnson. 
 
55. [Clemens (Samuel L.),] "Punch, Brcrt;lierSj Punch." Horse-Car Song. 
 
 With Chorus ad lib. See Atlantic Monthly for Feb., 1876. 3pp. 
 folio, words and music, the composer of the latter unlaiown. 
 
 Boston : Oliver Ditson & Co. [1876] 
 .Seemingly the first separate publication of the "' jingle " and with the 
 composer's inscription, " To Marie Twam," engraved on the title-page. 
 Date of copyright by Ditson is 1876. As Twain declares, " I came across 
 these Jingling rhymes in a newspaper," it is quite probable that he was 
 not the author of them. Of course, the sketch written around this jingle 
 and published the same year is a different proposition, as far as his 
 authorship is concerned. 
 
 56. Clemens (Samuel L.). Old Times on the Mississippi. By Mark Twain. 
 
 Author of " Innocents Abroad," " Roughing It," etc., etc. Head- 
 pieces. 12mo, original cloth, faded. Toronto : Belford Brothers, 1876 
 
 First issue of the first edition of an unauthorized publication, with 
 date on Imprint in Arabic numerals, verso of half-title blank, and title- 
 lines on front cover printed diagonally. 
 
 This volume is a portion only of the full work entitled, " Life on the 
 Mississippi ", published in the United States in 1883. " Punch, Brothers, 
 Punch " is incorporated herein under caption, " A Literary Nightmare," 
 which originally appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, February, 1876. 
 
 Inserted is a letter from James Ogilvy, bookseller, Ottawa, regarding 
 the work. 
 
 57. Clijmexs (Samuet, L.). Old Times on the Mississippi. By Mark Twain, 
 
 Author of '' Tom Sawyer," " Innocents Abroad," &c., &c. Head- 
 pieces, several damaged. 12mo, original cloth. 
 
 Toronto: Belford Brothers, 1876 
 Second issue of the preceding, with advertisement of " Tom Sawyer " 
 on verso <^f half-title, date of Impi-int in Roman letters, horizontal print- 
 ing of cover-title, &c. 
 
 58. Clemens (Samuel L.). Information Wanted, And Other Sketches. By 
 
 Mark Twain. 16mo, original boards, 3'eliow, with red tint-block on 
 front cover. London: George Koutledge & Sons [1876] 
 
 Notwithstanding that seven of these tales are said by the Bibliographer 
 to be First Editions, they will all be found in "Sketches New and Old" 
 published the year previous. The title only is First Edition. 
 
 59. Clemens (Samuel L.). The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. By ;\Iark 
 
 Twain. Illustrations. Square 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt. 
 
 Hartford, Conn. : American Publishing Co., 1876 
 
 Presentation copy from the author with autograph inscription on flv- 
 leaf as follows,--" To C. W. Stoddard from his friend 8. L. Clemens, 1S77." 
 
 First issue of the first edition, with 8 preliminary leaves, and printed 
 on a thinner and more highly calendered paper than used in later issues. 
 The half-title, frontispiece, and Preface are on separate leaves, with verso 
 of each blank, as is, also, the verso of the second leaf of the Contents. 
 XVI. is thus the correct number of the final preliminary page. 
 
 Laid in is a L.S., Ip. folio, from F. E. Bliss of the American Publishing 
 Co. relative to another copy of the work. 
 
 60. Clemens (Samuel L.). The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. By Mark 
 
 Twain. Illustrations. Square 8vo. original blue cloth, gilt. 
 
 Hartford, Conn. : American Publishing Co., 1876 
 Second issue of the First Edition, printed on heavier paper, with the 
 frontispiece on vei-so of the half-title, and the first page of Contents 
 printed on the verso of the leaf of Preface. While this makes but 6 pre- 
 liminary leaves instead of 8, the final page is still No. XVI. 
 
61. Clemens (Samuel L.). The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. By Mark 
 
 Twain. 12mo, original cloth. London: Chatto and Windus, 1876 
 First English Edition supposed to have been published some months 
 before the First American Edition, with several lines in Chapter II. con- 
 cerning Tom's " sore toe " that were in the American issue, omitted from 
 the English edition. Mr. Johnson hints that there may have been a 
 Canadian pirated Issue antedating, perhaps, both the American and 
 English editions. 
 
 62. [Clemexs (Samuel L.).], History of the Big Bonanza: An Authentic 
 
 Account of the Discovery, Historyj and Working of the World Ee- 
 nowned Comstock Silver Lode of Nevada. By Dan De Quille (Wil- 
 liam Wright). Profusely illustrated. Svo^ original cloth, gilt. 
 
 Hartford: American Publishing Co., 1876 
 
 The one-page Introductory only is by Mark Twain. The work Itself 
 
 was written by a fellow-worker on the Virginia City Enterprise, of 
 
 Nevada, who figured as one of the characters in " Roughing It." Now 
 
 OUT OF PBINT AND SCAKCE. 
 
 63. [Clemexs (Samuel L.).] Seventj'-First Anniversary Celebration of the 
 
 New England Society in the City of Few York at Delmonicos, Dec. 
 22, 1876. 8vo, original wrappers. New York [1876] 
 
 Contains the " Address of Mr. Samuel L. Clemens," on the subject of 
 Xew England weather conditions. 
 
 64. [Clemexs (Samuel L.).] The Quarterly Elocutionist. Eeadings, Eeci- 
 
 tations, &e. Edited and Published by Mrs. Anna Eandall-Diehl. 
 April, 1877. 12mo, original paper wrappers. [New York, 1877] 
 
 First appearance in the United States, in book form, of Twain'.s 
 "Literary Nightmare," it having been printed previously in the Atlantic 
 ilonthhj, and "Old Times on the Mississippi" (Toronto), both in lST(j. 
 
 65. Clemexs (Samuel L.). A True Story, and the Eecent Carnival of 
 
 Crime. By Mark Twain. Illustrated. 24mo, original green cloth, 
 gilt. Boston : James E. Osgood and Co., 1877 
 
 First book printing of " Carnival of Crime," which originally appeared 
 in the Atlantic Monthly, June, 1876. "True Story" was included in 
 " Sketches " in 1875. 
 
 On fly-leaf is written in unknown hand, — "This is the hardest of all 
 your books to get. Why is that?" Underneath is autographed, — " Weiss 
 nicht, Mark Twain," in his handwriting. 
 
 66. Clemexs (Samuel L.). A True Story, and the Eecent Carnival of 
 
 Crime. By Mark Twain. Illustrated. 24mo, original brown cloth, 
 gilt. Boston: James E. Osgood and Co., 1877 
 
 Autograph signature of " Mark Twain " on fly-leaf. 
 
 67. [Clemexs (Samuel L.).] Seventy-Second Anniversary Celebration of 
 
 the New England Society in the City of New York, at Delmonicos, 
 Dec. 22, 1877. 8vo, original wrappers. [New York, 1877] 
 
 Contains a long letter from Mark Twain, dat€d Dec. 5, 1877, declining 
 the invitation to the Celebration, because of " an offensive business 
 engagement for that day in Hartford." And continues, "Most people 
 would shirk this under the temptation which your iuvltation offers, but 
 I have young George Washington's disease (which Is much rarer 'now 
 than Bright's), and my word Is the one unfracturable thing about me. 
 [I do not know what Bright's disease is, but anyway, I do not feel 
 bright enough this morning to be afraid I have got it.]'' 
 
68. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Dick's Keeitations and Readings, No. 6. 
 
 Edited by William B. Dick. ISmo, original cloth. 
 
 New York: Dick & Fitzgerald [1877-8] 
 Presumably the first printing of this volume. Contains Twain's " That 
 Burial Lot," from the Atlantic Monthly, and " Mark Twain's War l]s- 
 perience," from a speech delivered before the Annual Record of the 
 Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, Boston, October, 1877. [See 
 following number.] 
 
 69. [Clemexs (Samuel L.).] The Two Hundred and Fortieth Annual Record 
 
 of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Co. of Massachusetts. 1877- 
 78. Sermon by Rev. R. Laird Collier, D.D. Svo, original wrappers. 
 
 Boston, 1878 
 Contains the First Edition of Twain's speech reprinted in Dick's Recita- 
 tions, &c., under caption, " Mark Twain's War Experience." 
 
 70. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Dick's Recitations, and Readings, No. 7. 
 
 Edited by William B. Dick. 12mo, original wrappers. 
 
 New York: Dick & Fitzgerald [1878] 
 Contains Twain's " Capt. Hurricane Jones on the Miracles," from the 
 Atlantic Monthly. 
 
 71. Clemens (Samuel L.). Punch, Brothers, Punch, and other Sketches. 
 
 By Mark Twain. 16mo, original blue cloth. 
 
 New York: Slote, Woodman and Co. [1878] 
 Autographed " Maek Twain " in his handwhiting on veeso of front 
 COVER. First issue of the first edition, with the name " Mark Twain " 
 on title-page printed in Roman, facsimile certificate, and page adver- 
 tising " Mark Twain's Patent Scrap-Books." First edition for " Ran- 
 dom Notes of an Idle Excursion," " The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence," 
 and "The Canvasser's Tale," with the portion of sentence omitted in 
 " Random Notes, &e.," on p. 91. 
 
 72. Clemens (Samuel L.). Punch, Brothers, Punch, and other Sketches. 
 
 By Mark Twain. IGmo, original red wrappers, with the silhouettes, 
 &c., on front cover. New York: Slote, Woodman and Co. [1878] 
 Another copy of the first issue of the first edition, in paper covers, 
 with facsimile certificate, advertisement of " Scrap-Books," small open 
 hook on verso of back cover, and portion of sentence omitted in " Random 
 Notes, &c.," on p. 91. 
 
 73. Clemens (Samuel L.). Punch, Brothers, Punch, and other Sketches. 
 
 By Mark Twain. 16mo, original blue cloth. 
 
 New York: Slote, Woodman and Co. [1878] 
 
 Second issue of the First Edition, with the title of the author printed 
 in a facsimile of Mark Twain's signature, new advertisements at end 
 of volume, and a large advertisement of the " Scrap Book " on recto of 
 back cover, which contains printed let)ter of Twain dated Hartford, Mon- 
 day evening,- wherein he speaks of the invention of his Scrap Book, " not 
 to make money out of it, but to economise the profanity of this country. 
 . . . If you [his publishers] want testimonals I can get them, and 
 of the best sort, and from the best people. One of the most refined and 
 cultivated young ladies in Hartford (the daughter of a clergyman) told 
 me herself, with grateful tears standing in her eyes, that since she 
 began using my Scrap Book she has not sworn a single oath." 
 
 Presentation copy from one of the publishers with autograph inscrip- 
 tion on fly-leaf. Also, the portion of the omitted sentence p. 91 is 
 supplied by the full spelling of the word " officer's," and the word 
 " funeral " insei-ted. 
 
74. Clemens (Samuel L.). Chimney Corner Series. The Loves of Alonzo- 
 
 Pitz Clarence and Eosannah Bthelton. By Mark Twain. Square 
 8vo, pictorial wrappers. New York: F. M. Lupton [1878] 
 
 Contains seven sketches by Twain, including " Punch, Brothers, Punch " 
 [Literary Nightmare] and "Random Notes, &c.," the latter of which, p. 
 30, gives Mark Twain's note of explanation relative to the suppression 
 of a portion of a sentence in the original appearance of the sketch In 
 the Atlantic Monthly that year : " When the proofs of this article came to 
 me I saw that " The Atlantic " had condemned the words which occupied 
 the place where is now a vacancy. I can invent no figure worthy to stand 
 in the shoes of the lurid colossus which a too deep respect for the 
 opinions of mankind has thus ruthlessly banished from his due and 
 rightful i)edestal in the world's literature. Let the blank remain a 
 blank; and let it suggest to the reader that he has sustained a precious 
 loss which can never be made good to him. M. T." 
 
 75. Clemens (Samuel L.). An Idle Excursion, and other Papers. By 
 
 Mark Twain. ISmo, pictorial hoards. 
 
 London : Chatto and Windus, 1878 
 
 First English Edition containing " Punch, Brothers, Punch " [Literary 
 Nightmare], &c. Also, includes the omitted portion of sentence in 
 " Eandom Notes, &c.," on p. 68, namely, — " officer's heart on a fork," the 
 suppression of which by the editor of the Atlantic Monthly caused Twain 
 to append a note of explanation which accompanied the sketch in later 
 editions. [See preceding number.] 
 
 76. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Mark Twain's Nightmare. A Story of Haunt- 
 
 ing Horror. With Tales, Sketches, and Poetry, by Mark Twain, P. 
 C. Burnand, H. S. Leigh, etc., etc. Illustrated hy lAnley Samboume, 
 A. B. Frost, and others. 16mo, pictorial wrappers. 
 
 London : Ward, Lock & Co. [1878] 
 
 Second English Edition of " Punch, Brothers, Punch " [Mark Twain's 
 Nightmare]. Relative to the English, Scotch and Canadian editions of 
 this sketch which appeared on the market in 1878, Mr. Johnson remarks : 
 " One of these may have been issued previous to the American publication, 
 but as most of them were pirated, there is little hope of obtaining the 
 exact dates except by accident." 
 
 77. Clemens (Samuel L.). Eambling Notes of an Idle Excursion. By 
 
 Mark Twain. 12mo, original cloth. 
 
 Toronto : Eose-Belford Publishing Co., 1878 
 
 Probably a pirated edition. With autograph signature of Mark Twain 
 on verso of end-paper, and the word " No " and the initials " S. L. O." 
 autographed beneath the query in an unknown hand on fly-leaf. — " Does 
 this first title appear here for the first time?" Contains Twain's explana- 
 tion of the omission in sentence in " An Idle Excursion," p. 63. 
 
 78. Clemens (Samuel L.). Mark Twain's Patent Scrap Book. Portrait 
 
 and illustrations. Oblong sheet folded to make 8 pp., 16mo. 
 
 [New York, 1878] 
 Contains Twain letter on back page dated " Hartford, Monday evening," 
 the same letter which appeared in second edition of " Punch, Brothers, 
 Punch." A testimonial letter on this folder bears date of " March 29* 
 187T," which might show that the publication of the Twain letter really 
 antedates its appearance in the original edition of " Punch, Brothers " 
 issued in 1878. 
 
79. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Report of the Proceedings of the Society of 
 
 the Army of the Tennessee, at the Thirteenth Annual Meeting, held 
 at Chicago, 111., November 13 and 13, 1879. 8vo, origiaal paper 
 wrappers, name on title. Cincinnati, 1879 
 
 Contains two speeches by Mark Twain, pp. 50 and 154-157, the latter in 
 reply to the toast, — " The Babies — as they comfort us in our sorrows, let 
 us not forget them in our festivities," which Twain commenced as fol- 
 lows : " I like that. We haven't all been Generals, or poets, or statesmen ; 
 but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground, 
 for we've all been babies. It is a shame that for a thousand years the 
 world's banquets have utterly ignored the baby — as if he didn't amount to 
 anything. If you gentlemen will stop and think a minute — if you will go 
 back fifty or a hundred years, to your early married life, and recontem- 
 plate your first baby, you will remember that he amounted to a good deal, 
 and even something over." 
 
 80. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] One Hundred Choice Selections in Poetry and 
 
 Prose, ISTc. 17. ISmo, original paper wrappers, name on front cover. 
 
 Philadelphia and Chicago, 1879 
 
 Contains "Literary Nightmare" [Punch, Brothers, Punch], and "Jim 
 
 Wolfe and the Cats," for which latter sketch this is the first American 
 
 appearance in book form. It was published in Hood's Comic Annual for 
 
 1874 under the caption, " A Yankee Story." 
 
 81. Clemens (Samuel L.). Sketches by Mark Twain. Now First Published 
 
 in Complete Form. 12mo, original cloth. 
 
 Toronto: Belfords, Clarke & Co., 1879 
 Probably the First Book publication of " The Great Revolution in Pit- 
 cairn," and " The Recent French Duel." Contains the " ' Jumping Frog ' 
 in English. Then in French. Then Cla\^'ed back into a Civilized Language 
 once more by Patient, Unremunerated Toil." 
 
 82. Clemens (Samuel L.). A Tramp Abroad: Illustrated by W. Fr. Brown, 
 
 True Williams, B. Day and other Artists — with also three or four 
 pictures made by the Author of this Book, without outside help; in 
 all/ Three hundred and Twenty-eight Illustrations. By Mark Twain 
 (Samuel L. Clemens). 8vo, original cloth. 
 
 Hartford, Conn. : American Publishing Company, 1880 
 FiBST ISSUE OF THE FiEST EDITION", With the first State of the portrait- 
 plate including the " spots " noted by Mr. Johnson, and the first title of 
 frontispiece, " Moses," afterwards changed to " Titian's Moses." Laid in 
 is a proof of what Is certified to be one of the few early impressions of 
 the portrait-plate, without the spots, together with a L. S., 1 p. folio, in- 
 serted, from the American Publishing Co. relative to this plate. 
 
 S3. Clemens (Samuel L.). A Tramp Abroad. [Remainder of title-page 
 as given in the preceding.] 
 
 Hartford, Conn. : American Publishing Co., 1880 
 Second issue of the First Edition, with the portrait-plate with the 
 " spots," but with the engraver's name omitted, and the altered title of 
 the frontispiece to " Titian's Moses " instead of " Moses." 
 AuTOGKAPH siGNATUBE OF " MARK TwAiN " on verso of frout cover. 
 
 84. Clemens (Samuel L.). A Tramp Abroad. [Remainder of title-page as 
 given in the two preceding numbers.] 
 
 Hartford, Conn. : American Publishing Co., 1880 
 Second issue of the First Edition, but with the portrait-plate without 
 "spots." and the title of frontispiece. — "Titian's Moses." 
 
85. Clemens (Samuel L.). 'A Tramp Abroad. By Mark Twain, Author of 
 
 " Innocents Abroad/' " New Pilgrim's Progress," etc. 2 vols. 13mo, 
 original cloth, binding somewhat rubbed and stained. 
 
 London: Chatto and Windus, 1880 
 
 According to Mr. Jolmson, this, the First English Edition, was published 
 
 October 13, 1879, while the First American Edition appeared March 13, 
 
 1880. There are no illustrations, and the 32 pp. of Publishers' Lists are 
 
 dated " February, 1880." 
 
 86. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] The Eeception given to Thurlow Weed on 
 
 his Edghty-third Birthday, November 15, 1880, by the New York 
 Press Club. [For Private Distribution.] 8vo, original paper wrap- 
 pers. Albany, 1880 
 A letter from Mark Twain appears on p. 23, — " Hartford, Nov. 9, 1880. 
 My Dear Mr. Lukens — I should like it very much but I am booked other- 
 vrise tor that day. I wish Mr. Weed and the rest of the boys a good time. 
 Truly yours, Mark Twain." 
 
 87. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Some Funny Things; From the Pens of The 
 
 Detroit Free Press Man, The Burlington Hawkeye Man, &e. 12mo, 
 original paper wrappers. New York : Frank Harrison and Co. [1880] 
 Incorporated in the anecdote concerning Mark Twain and Dan De 
 QuUle, is a letter signed " Mark Twain," and dated " Hartford, Conn., Jan. 
 1, 1880." 
 
 88. Clemens (Samuel L.). Sketches and Eeminiscences of the Radical Club 
 
 of Chestnut Street, Boston. Edited by Mrs. John T. Sargent. 
 Frontispiece. 12mo, original cloth. 
 
 Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1880 
 In the Chapter on " Evolution " by Edward S. Morse is a transcription 
 of some remarks made upon the subject by Mr. Clemens, ending as fol- 
 lows : " When Mrs. Sargent asked me if I would speak, I didn't want to 
 do it at all, but I thought it wouldn't be polite to decline. I didn't care 
 much about evolution, but when they struck the doctrine of metempsy- 
 chosis, I got interested. That doctrine accounts for me. I kAew there was 
 something the matter, but never knew what it was before. It's the passing 
 off on a man of an old, damaged, second-hand soul that makes all the 
 trouble." 
 
 89. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Dick's Eecitations and Readings, No. 13. 
 
 Edited by William B. Dick. 16mo, original paper wrappers. 
 
 New York [1881] 
 Contains Mark Twain's " After Dinner Speech," and " Jim Baker's Blue- 
 Jay Yarn." 
 
 90. Clemens (Samuel L.). The Prince and the Pauper. A Tale for Young 
 
 People of All Ages. By Mark Twain. With 192 illustrations \Jby 
 Frank T. MerriU~\ . Square 8vo, original green cloth, gilt. 
 
 Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1882 [1881] 
 
 Author's presentation copy, with his autograph inscription on fly-leaf, — 
 " To Charles Warren Stoddard, Honohilu, Sandwich Islands, with the love 
 of The Author. Hartford, Dec. 20, 1881." 
 
 An early issue of the American edition, copyright .for which was filed lu 
 Washington on Dec. 12, 1881, about one week before the date of Twain's 
 inscription. 
 
 Laid in is an A.L.S., 2pp. 12mo, from Frank T. Merrill, the artist, in 
 which occurs the following interesting paragraph : " Mr. Clemens made 
 
no suggestions with regard to the i^ictiires but in a* letter to tlie jiublisliers 
 when I had partly completed the work, he said, as I recollect, ' If Mr. 
 Merrill thinks that the pictures he has drawn of the little Pi-iuce represent 
 Jiis idea of the character h© is vei-y much mistaken — ^it is MX idea.' " 
 
 91. Clemens (Samuel L.). The Prince and the Pauper. A Tale for Yomig 
 People of All Ages. By Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens). With 
 190 illustrations. Vhno, original red cloth. 
 
 London: Chatto and Windus, 18S1 
 
 First English Edition, and probably the first edition published, as. 
 according to Mr, Johnson, the work was issued December 1, 1881, about 
 ten days before the American publication. Foley mentions the Boston 
 edition only. 
 
 93. Clemens (Samuel L.). The Prince and the Pauper. A Tale for Young 
 
 People of AU Ages. By Mark Twain. 13mo, cloth, gilt top, uncut. 
 
 j\Iontreal: Dawson Brothers, 1881 
 
 This edition is without illustrations, and is copyrighted as a reprint of 
 an English book to prevent the issue of "pirated" editions in Canada, 
 the author becoming, it is said, a temporary resident of Montreal, in 
 fullfllment of the legal requirements. 
 
 Autograph signature of Mark Twain is on the verso of front cover, and 
 on fly-leaf is the line " Same Date " and initials " iS. L. C." in his handwrit- 
 ing under the inquiry, " Which is the first edition? This or ihe American? " 
 
 93. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Pirst Annual Festival of the Xew England 
 
 Society of Pennsylvania, at the Continental Hotel, Philadelphia, 
 December 22, 1881. 8vo, original paper wrappers. 
 
 [Philadelphia, 1881] 
 
 Contains address of Miirk Twain's which appeared later under the cap- 
 tion, — " Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims," in which the author appeals to 
 the members of the Society to " get up an auction and sell Plymouth 
 Rock. The Pilgrims were a simple and ignorant race. They never had 
 seen any good rocks before, or at least any that were not watched, and so 
 they were excusable for hopping ashore in frantic delight and clapping an 
 iron fence around this one, &c." 
 
 94. [Clemens (Samuel L.) .] Eighth Annual Dinner of the New York Press 
 
 Club. January C, 1881. Svo, original wrappers. 
 
 New York: Privately printed, 1881 
 
 Contains a short letter of regret from Mr. Clemens, dated Hartford, 
 Dec. 6, 1880, on p. 54. Includes, also, speeches of Gen. W. T. Sherman, 
 Commodore J. W. Niclinlson, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Bi^nson J. Lossing, 
 and others. 
 
 05. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] The Society of the Army of the Potomac. 
 Report of the Twelfth Annual Ee-IJnion, at flartford, Conn., June 
 8, 1881. 8vo, original illuminated wrappers. New York, 1881 
 
 Includes a three-page speech of Mark Twain relative to West Point, the 
 mistakes made by Napoleon at Waterloo, &c., with Twain's suggestion re- 
 garding the cleaning up of a battlefield : — " When you leave a battlefield. 
 always leave it in good order. Remove the wreck and rubbish and tidy up 
 the place. However, in the case of a drawn battle, it is neither party's 
 business to tidy up anything — you can leave the field looking as if the 
 city government of New York had bossed the fight." 
 
96. Clemens (SamMl L.). A Curious Experience. By Mark Twain. 16nio, 
 original wrappers. 
 
 Toronto: Printed and Published by W. G. Gibson [1881] 
 
 Autographed by " Mark Twain " on front cover. Although a " pirated " 
 *,; edition in all probability, it is very likely the First printing in this form, 
 
 having been published soon after its original appearance in the CeiiUiry 
 Magazine in November, 1881. 
 
 S7. Clemens (Samuel L.). The Stolen White Elephant, Etc. By Mark 
 Twain. 16mo, original cloth. Boston: J. E. Osgood and Co., 1882 
 
 First Amebican edition, copyright April 29, 1882, copy filed at Wash- 
 ington June 12, 1882. First edition and First American edition of, — " The 
 Stolen White Elephant," " About Magnanimous-Incident Literature," 
 " Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning," " On the Decay of the Art of 
 Lying," " Paris Notes " and " Legend of Sagenfeld, in Germany." The two 
 sketches " A Curious Experience " and " The Great Revolution in Pit- 
 cairn " are, probably, First American Book printings. 
 
 98. Clemens (Samuel L.). The Stolen White Elephant, Etc. By Mark 
 
 Twain (Samuel L. Clemens). 13mo, original red cloth, gilt, elephant 
 design in black, uncut : London : Chatto and Windus, 1882 
 
 First English Edition. Identical, as regards Contents, with the Amer- 
 ican edition, which it preceded in issue by a day or two. 
 
 Concerning the sketch which gives the volume its title, Mark Twain 
 writes, — " Left out of A Tramp A'broad, because it was feared that some 
 of the particulars had been exaggerated, and that others were not true. 
 Before these suspicions had been proven groundless, the book had gone to 
 press." 
 
 99. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Seventy-seventh Anniversary Celebration of 
 
 the Few England Society in the City of New York at Delmonico's, 
 December 22, 1882. Svo, original wrappers. [New York, 1882] 
 
 Contains a speech by Twain on pp. 39-42, and remarks by him on p. 75. 
 The first was made in response to the toast, — " Woman, God bless her," in 
 the course of which speech Twain spoke of the Hairpin ; " Any time you 
 want to, you can glance around the carpet of a Pullman car, and go and 
 pick up a hairpin ; but not to save your life can you get any woman in 
 that car to acknowledge that hairpin ... I have stupidly got into 
 more trouble and more hot water trying to hunt up the owner of a hairpin 
 in a Pullman car than by any other indiscretion of my life." 
 
 100. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Clemens (Will il.). Famous Funny Fel- 
 
 lows. Brief Biographical Sketches of American Humorists. Fold- 
 ing plate of portraits, mended at fold. ISmo, original cloth. 
 
 Cleveland,, 0., 1882 
 Author's presentation copy with autograph inscription on fly-Jeaf. Con- 
 tains several short letters from Mark Twain, one of which is here given • 
 " Hartford, January 16, 1881. My dear Boy— How can I advise another 
 man wisely, out of such capital as a life filled with mistakes? Advise 
 him how to avoid the like? No— for opportunities to make the same 
 mistakes do not happen to any two men. Your own experiences may 
 possibly teach you, but another man's can't. I do not know anythins 
 for a person to do but just peg along, doing the things that offer and 
 regretting them the next day. It is my way, and everybody's." 
 
101. Clemens (Samuel L.). Life on the Mississippi. By Mark Twain. 
 With more than SOO illustrations. 8vo, original cloth. 
 
 Boston:" James E. Osgood & Co., 1883 
 
 The bare fibst issije of the fibst complete edition with the cut on 
 p. 441, Mark Twain in process of cremation, suppressed in later editions 
 at the request, it is said, of Mrs. Clemens. Only a limited number of 
 
 COPIES CIRCULATED. 
 
 Autograph signature of Mark Twain on verso of front cover. Also, 
 the line, — " / do not Icnoio," and the initials," iSf. L. 'C." in Twain's auto- 
 graph, written beneath the query in unknown hand, — " Why was the 
 illustration on p. 441 suppressed in later editions? If you go to Hades 
 you will improve it and make it popular." 
 
 The first few chapters of this work appeared as a serial in the Atlantic 
 Monthly in 1875, and soon afterwards were published in a " pirated " 
 book in Toronto in 1876. 
 
 103. Clemens (Samuel L.). The Suppressed Chapter of ^^Life on the Mis- 
 sissippi/' in forms as follow — (1) 11 pp. 12mo, typewritten copy; 
 (3) 2 galley proofs of same; (3) 4 pp. pamphlet, marked No. 1 of 
 350 copies of the First Printing and signed by Merle Johnson. To- 
 gether, 3 pieces. 
 
 This is the chapter suppressed in the printing from the original manu- 
 script in 1883, under which year we have listed for chronological con- 
 venience, although the pamphlet was issued within the last year or so. 
 
 Propertt of Merle Johnson. 
 
 103. Clemens (Samuel L.). Life on the Mississippi. By Mark Twain. 
 
 With more than 300 illustrations. 8vo, original cloth. 
 
 Boston : James R. Osgood & Co., 1883 
 
 Second issue of the First Complete Edition, with the blank space on p. 
 441 in place of the " cremation " plate. 
 
 Autograph signature " Mark Twain " on verso of front cover. 
 
 A note by Mr. Johnson in this volume practically states that these 
 corrected copies were sold among the first offered to purchasers. 
 
 104. Clemens (Samuel L.). Another copy, similar to preceding number, 
 
 but minus Twain's signature and Mr. Johnson's note. 
 
 105. Clemens (Samuel L.). Life on the Mississippi. By Mark Twain. 
 
 With over SOO illustrations. 13mo, original cloth. 
 
 London : Chatto and Windus, 1883 > 
 
 According to Mr. Johnson, this First English Edition was published five 
 days before the American book was issueci. 
 
 106. [Clemens (Samuel L,)-] The New Guide of the Conversation in Portu- 
 
 guese and English. In Two Parts, by Pedro Carolino. First Amer- 
 ican Edition, reprinted verbatim et literatim. With an Introduction 
 by Mark Twain. 16mo, original cloth. 
 
 Boston : James E. Osgood & Co., 1883 
 
 107. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Another copy of the same in original wrap- 
 
 pers. With autograph inscription on fly-leaf, — " Truly Yours, Marie 
 Twain." 
 
108. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Wit and Humor of the Age. Comprising 
 
 AVit, Pathos, Eidicule, &c., by Mark Twain, Josh Billings, and others, 
 with the Philosophy of Wit and Humor, by jMelville D. Landon. 
 Portraits. 8vo, original cloth. Chicago, 1883 
 
 Editor's presentation copy with autograph inscription on fly leaf -as 
 follows: — "Merle Johnson; May you live as long as you please and be 
 pleased as long as you live. M. D. Landon (' Eli Perkins '). 300 C. P. W." 
 
 109. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] The New Guide of the Conversation in Eng- 
 
 lish. With an Introduction by Mark Twain. 16mo, original wrappers. 
 London: George Eoutledge and Sons, 1881 
 
 First English edition of " The New Guide of the Conversation in Portu- 
 guese and English. By Pedro Carolino [Jose de Fonseea]." 
 
 110. Clemens (Samuel L.). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom 
 
 Sawyer's Comrade). By Mark Twain. With 17 J/, illustrations, and 
 the hust portrait of the author by Karl Gerhardt, inserted. Square 
 8voi original half morocco. 
 
 New York: Charles L. Weljster and Co., 1885 
 
 First edition. Because of a defect in the plate on p. 283 in the original 
 issue of .80,000 copies, as many as possible of the volumes were kept out 
 of circulation until the plate could be remedied, and new pages substituted. 
 In the book here catalogued the illustration is correctly printed. 
 
 Laid in is a L. S., 1 p. folio, from Joseph J. Little regarding the original 
 binding of the work. 
 
 111. Clemens (Samuel L.). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom 
 
 Sawyer's Comrade). By Mark Twain. With 11 J^ illustrations, and. 
 the lust portrait of the author by Karl Gerhardt, inserted. Square 
 8vo, original dark-green cloth, gilt. 
 
 New York: Charles L. Webster and Co., ISS.J 
 
 First edition in the oeiginal cloth, with the plate on p. 283 correctly 
 ]irinted and pasted in, and the Kemble frontispiece of " Huck " Finn, 
 signed by the artist. 
 
 The pbopeety of Merle Johnson. 
 
 112. Clemens (Samuel L._). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, &c. Agents' 
 
 Advance Sheets, with List of Subscribers, partially filled out, samples 
 of binding, illustrations, &c. Square 8vo, original dark-green cloth. 
 New York: Charles L. Webster and Co., ISs.") 
 The plate on p. 283 is correctly printed. 
 
 113. Clemens (Samuel L.). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom 
 
 Sawyer's Comrade). By Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens). With 
 nil. illustrations. 12mo, original red cloth, gilt. 
 
 London: Chatto and Windus, 1884 
 First English Edition, published on December 10, 1884, three days before 
 a copy of the American book was filed for copyright. 
 
 114. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes. By E. E. 
 
 Brown. Portrait. 13mo, original cloth. Boston, [1884] 
 
 Mark Twain's address at the Holmes Breakfast in 1879 is here printed 
 in full. In it he gives the amusing explanation of how he stole the Dedica- 
 tion of his " Innocents Abroad," which runs, in part, — " Two years before 
 1 had been laid up a couple of weeks in the Sandwich Islands, and hart 
 read and re-read Doctor Holmes' poems till my mental reservoir was filled 
 with them to the brim. The dedication lay on top and handy, so by and 
 
by I unconsciously stole it. Perhaps I unconsciously stole the rest of the 
 volume, too, for many people have told me that my book was pretty 
 poetical in one way or another." 
 
 Inserted is a letter from the editors of the Atlantic Monthly relative to 
 the first publication of the speeches at this Breakfast. 
 
 115 CLEiiENS (Samuel L.). Two Broadsides, "Report all along the Line;" 
 and, " Yes, they are Coming Heie." Each 1 p. royal 4to and folio. 
 New York, Nov. 24, and Dec. [18], 1884. (3 pieces, folded). ' 
 
 Contain interesting criticisms on ''Mark Twain" and George W. Cable 
 readings from their own works in the cities where they have thus far 
 appeared. About twenty-five criticisms in all from such sources as, — 
 Brooklyn Eagle, N. Y. Evening Telegram, Boston Herald, and others. 
 Property op Merus Johnson. 
 
 116. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Phunny Phellows. 12mo, original paper 
 
 wrappers. [Chicago: Rhodes & McGliire, 1885]. 
 
 Contains two pieces by Twain, '* Mr. Beecher's Farm," included in the 
 '■ Curious Volume," London, 1872, and " Mark Twain's Remarkable Gold 
 Mines " which, it would seem, had not been issued elsewhere. 
 
 Front cover has an illustration entitled, " Mark Twain and his Jumping 
 Frog," which shows the author astride a bullfrog poised in the air above 
 a five-barred gate. Lacks title-page. 
 
 117. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Phnnny Phellows. The ^Yorld's Wit and 
 
 Wits. Edited by E. S. Ehodes. Woodcuts. ISnio, with a portion 
 only of the original wrappers 
 
 Chicago : Ehodes and MeClure Pub. Co., 1886 
 Probably the First Edition in this form, but published later than the 
 preceding item. Pkopeety oit Merle Johnson. 
 
 118. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] International Copyright. Statements made 
 
 before the Committee on Patents of the TJnited States Senate, &c. 
 By Mark Twain and others. 49th Congress, 1st Session, Report No. 
 1188. 8vo, stitched, as issued. [Washington, 1886] 
 
 " Statement of Mr. S. L. Clemens " will be found on pp. 15-17. 
 
 119. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Annual Dinner of the Typothetae of New 
 
 York in Honor of the Birthday of Benjamin Franklin at Delmonico's, 
 Monday, January 18, 1886. 8vo, original wrappers. 
 
 Contains Twain's speech relative to some of his early work upon a 
 newspaper which " had a hundred town subscribers and three hundred 
 and fifty country ones wheu we were prosperous . . . Every man 
 on the town list helped edit the thing ; that is, he gave orders as to how 
 it was to be edited; projected its opinions, marked out its course of 
 procedure for it, and every time the boss failed to connect, he 3nst 
 stopped his paper . . . We had one subscriber who paid cash, and 
 he was more trouble to us than all the rest. He bought us once a year, 
 body and soul, for two dollars, and he paid a fancy price for us too ; &c." 
 
 Pkoperty of Merle Johnson. 
 
 120. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] English as She. is. Taught. Genuine An- 
 
 swers to Examination Questions in our Public Schools. Collected by 
 Caroline B. Le Eow. IGmo, original cloth, gilt top, uncut. 
 
 New York: Cassell & Company, [1887] 
 
 Contains a four-line extract from Mark Twain's notice in the Century 
 Magazine for April, 18S7, which is here printed on page facing title. 
 
 Autograph of the compiler, Caroline B. LeRow, on the half-title. 
 
 Twain calls this work, — "A darling literary curiosity . . . The 
 collection is made by a teacher . . . and all the examples in it are 
 genuine; none of them have been tampered with, or doctored in any way." 
 
131. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] English at She. is. Taught, Being G-enuine 
 Answers to Examination Questions in our Public Schools collected 
 by Caroline B. Le Eow. With a Commentary Thereon by Mark 
 Twain. 16mo, original imitation alligator cloth, gilt top, uncut. 
 
 ' London : T. Fisher Unwin, 1887 
 
 First English Edition containing the first book-printing of the entire 
 article by Mark Twain which appeared in the Century Magazine for 
 April, 1887, and which is here " reprinted with the author's permission." 
 The four-line extract of this article appears here facing title-page. 
 
 Autograph signature of the compiler, Caroline B. Le Row, on the half- 
 title. 
 
 133. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] The Eun Library is a Collection of Humor- 
 ous Stories . . . from the Brightest Sources of Current Wit 
 and Humor. Square 8vo, original paper wrappers. 
 
 Boston : J. H. & A. L. Brigham, [1887] 
 
 The above is " Gripsack Gleanings, No. 3," containing the Twain anec- 
 dote about the " Fast Horse." Nos. 1 and 2 of this collection are said to 
 have appeared in 1886. 
 
 133. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] The Fun Library, &c. G-ripsack Gleanings, 
 
 ISTo. 4. Square 8vo, original paper wrappers. 
 
 Boston : J. H. & A. L. Brigham, [1887] 
 
 With the pagination continuing from " Gripsack Gleanings, No. 3," and 
 
 containing Mark Twain's " An Introduction " and one of his anecdotes. 
 
 134. Clemens (Samuel L.). Mark Twain's Library of Humor. Illustrated 
 
 by E. W. Kemble. Thick, Svo, original cloth, gilt. 
 
 New York : Charles L. Webster and Co., 1888 
 
 FiEST ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION, Containing the original appearance of 
 " Warm Hair." By Mark Twain, whose name was erased from the head- 
 ing of sketch in subsequent editions as though he was not the author. 
 It is not included in the list of pieces by him enumerated under Ms name. 
 
 In this First Issue the " Index of Titles " is arranged in the order of 
 their appearance in the book. In all later editions they are arranged in 
 alphabetical sequence. 
 
 Contains, also, the Original printing of the "Author's Apology" in 
 facsimile, together with the okiginai manusckipt of the same, inserted, 
 and reading as follows, — "Those selections in this book which are from 
 my own works, were made by my two assistant compilers, not by me. 
 This is why there are not more." This is signed "Mark Twain" and 
 dated " Hartford, Jan. 1, 1888." The manuscript, however, is not dated, 
 but has four lines below the "Apology," in Mark Twain's handwriting, 
 to wit: "Dear Mr. Hall; This is my preface to Library of Humor. 
 Please put it with that compilation. Yrs. S. L. C." 
 
 Autograph on fly-leaf of the illustrator, " E. W. KemUe, May 27 191S." 
 
 Also, postal card, inserted, from A. McCowan relative to the First 
 Edition of the work. 
 
 135. [Clemens (Samuel L.)— and Othees.] What American Authors Think 
 
 about International Copyright. With facsimile passages from letters 
 ly Lowell and Longfellow. Svo, stitched as issued. 
 
 New York : American Copyright League, 1888 
 
 Remarks by Mark Twain on p. 10, and letters from Lyman Abbott T B ^ 
 Aldrich, G. W. Cable, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Oliver Wendell Holmes 
 and others. ' 
 
 This material appeared in the Century Magazine, February, 1886. 
 
136. Clemens (Samuel L.). a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. 
 
 By Mark Twain. [Numerous Illustrations hy Dan Beard.} Square 
 8vOj original half morocco. 
 
 New York : Charles L. Webster and Co., 1889 
 
 FiBST EDITION. Author's presentation copy to the poet, Edmund Clarence 
 Stedman, with the following autograph inscription on fly-leaf : 
 " My Bear Stedman — 
 
 It was ever so kind of you to drive your critical plow through the MS. 
 for me, & I hold myself your obliged friend and servant, 
 Dec. 10/89. Maek Twain." 
 
 With bookplate of Stedman. Also, five Unes and signature in the hand- 
 writing of Dan Beard, the illustrator. 
 
 137. Clemens (Samuel L.). A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. 
 
 By Mark Twain, [Numerous illustrations hy Dan Beard.'} Square 
 8vo, original cloth. New York : Charles L. Webster and Co., 1889 
 
 First edition. Autographed by both author and illustrator on fly-leaf,— 
 the line " Yes indeed. MarJc Twain " written beneath several lines in an 
 unknown hand, and the line, " Z thinlc so too, Dan Beard," underneath 
 Twaiu's inscription. 
 
 Laid in is an A. L. S., 3 pp. 4to, from the illustrator to Mr. Johnson, in 
 which he gives several reasons why he likes to illustrate for Mark Twain, 
 and which forms very interesting reading. It is from this letter that the 
 Bibliographer largely quotes on pp. 161-162 of his work. 
 
 128. Clemens (Samuel L.). A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. 
 By Mark Twain. Agents' sheets, with specimens of text and illus- 
 trations, samples of bindings, and a blank list of subscribers names. 
 Square 8vo, original half brown morocco. 
 
 New York : Charles L. Webster and Co., 1889 
 
 . 139, Clemens (Samuel L.). Prospectus of " A Connecticut Yankee in King 
 Arthur's Court." By Mark Twain. A Keen and Powerful Satire on 
 English Nobility and Eoyalty ... To English Nobility and 
 Eoyalty what Don Quixote was to Ancient Chivalry. Illustrations. 
 2 pp. 4to, folded and somewhat stained. 
 Peoperty of Merle Johnson. 
 
 130. Clemens (Samuel L.). A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur. By 
 
 Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens). With 220 illustrations hy Dan 
 Beard. 12mo, original red cloth, somewhat soiled. 
 
 London : Chatto and Wiudus, 1889 
 
 First English Edition, with the autograph of Mark Twain on both fly- 
 leaf and verso of front cover, the reason for which Mr. Johnson has 
 pencilled on the front end-paper. 
 
 In this edition the entire second paragraph of the Preface, in which the 
 divine right of kings is discussed, is omitted, in order, probably, not to be 
 offensive to English readers. 
 
 Supposed to have been issued on Dec. 6, 1SS9, a day later than the 
 American volume. The advertisements in back of this book bear date of 
 Sept., 1889, which, if correct, would antedate the American issue. 
 
 131. Clemens (Samuel L.). Another copy, similar, without autographs. 
 
 133. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Wilder (Marshall P.). The People Eve 
 Smiled With. Recollections of a Merry Little Life. Portraits. 12mo, 
 original cloth. New York [1889] 
 
 First edition, with Mark Twain's stories concerning " Chestnuts " and 
 his difficulty in making an entrance into Daly's Theatre by the hack door. 
 On fly-leaf is autograph inscription of the author, — " Merrily Yours. 
 Marshall P. Wilder, '07." 
 
133. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Traubel (Horace L. — Editor). Camden's 
 
 Compliment to Walt Whitman, May 31, 1889, Kotes, Addresses, Let- 
 ters, Telegrams. Portrait. 8vo, original cloth. Philadelphia, 1889 
 An entertaining letter from Mark Twain commencing as follows, — ■ 
 " Hartford, Conn., May 24, 1889. To Walt Whitman — You have Uved 
 just the seventy years which are greatest in the world's history, and 
 richest in benefit and advancement to its peoples. These seventy years 
 have done much more to widen the interval between man and the other 
 animals than was accomplished by any five centuries which preceded 
 them." 
 
 134. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Kitton (Frederic C). Dickens and his 
 
 Illustrators, By Pen and Pencil, including Anecdotes and Eemi- 
 niscenees collected from his friends and contemporaries. Portraits 
 and many facsimiles of original drawings, by Cruihshanh, Seymour, 
 "Phiz," Maclise, and others. Includes the Supplement, which is 
 bound in. Imperial 4to, cloth, uncut. London, 1890 
 
 Contains a fine letter by Mark Twain on pp. 157-158. 
 
 135. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Wise, Witty, Eloquent Kings of the Plat- 
 
 form and Pulpit. By Melville D. Landon. Portraits and illustra- 
 tions. Svo, original half leather, gilt edges. Chicago, 1890 
 
 Anecdotes and Speeches by Mark Twain will be found on pp. 348-359, 
 including his address before the Boston Papyrus Club on one of its 
 " Ladies Nights," and here first printed in book form. 
 
 Presentation copy from the editor with autograph inscription on fly- 
 leaf, — "Mr. E. C. Stedman from. Melville D. Landon ("Eli Perlcins.") . 
 Inserted is an A. L. S. from the editor relative to the work, and addressed 
 to Mr. Stedman. 
 
 136. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Phunny Phellows. Mark Twain, and others. 
 
 Portraits. 12mo, half brown morocco. 
 
 Chicago: Ehodes & McClure [1890] 
 Contains nearly a dozen sketches by Mark Twain. 
 
 137. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Portraits and Autographs. An Album for 
 
 the People. Edited by W. T. Stead. 4to, original limp cloth. 
 
 London, 1891 
 Includes a facsimile letter from Mark Twain to the editor ; and numer- 
 ous other facsimile letters, with portraits. 
 
 138. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Werner's Eeadings and Eecitations. Xo. 5. 
 
 American Classics. Compiled and Arranged by S. S. Eice. 12mo, 
 original wrappers. Xew York, 1891 
 
 A note on title appended by Mr. Johnson states that " ' A Ghost Story ' 
 [p. 91] is not the ' Ghost Story ' from the Buffalo Express, but is the one 
 known as the ' Golden Arm.' " This tale was used by Mark Twain in his 
 lectures and printed in " How to tell a Story." 
 
 139. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Eli Perkins' Thirty Years of Wit, and Eemi- 
 
 niscences of Witty, Wise and Eloquent Men. By Melville D. Landon 
 ("Eli Perkins"). Portrait. 13mo, original cloth. 
 
 New York [1891] 
 Autograph of the author on fly-leaf. Contains quotations from Mark 
 Twain's writings, with numerous anecdotes. ' 
 
140, Clemexs (Samuel L.). Mark Tivain's Sketches. [Title and Contents 
 
 inserted from another volume.] A Series of newspaper and maga- 
 zine excerpts including Twain's "The .Vmerican Claimant/' 
 '' Piiddn'head Wilson," and other sketches, Otc. lUu^frations. About 
 300 pp., 8vo, in old half leather cover. [1891] 
 
 Contains, probably, the First appearances of tlie two :^turies named, 
 and of several others, which were evidently copyrighted in 1S91 for 
 ■ -syndication in the newspapers and magazines, but not for book publishing 
 purposes. 
 
 141. Clemens (Samuel L.). The American Claimant. By Mark Twain. 
 
 [Illustrated by Dan Beard.'] 12mo, original cloth, gilt. 
 
 Kew York: Charles L. Webster .t Co., 1893 
 
 First pkinting in book foem, copyrighted sometime in 1891 for print- 
 ing in newspapers and magazines by the McClure Syndicate. 
 
 Autographed on fly-leaf, — " Truly Yours, Marh Tioahi." Also, auto- 
 graphed by Beard with sis lines and signature, ^itating that the "draw- 
 ings were made in outline, because they were lirst printed in the 
 newspapers, &c." Inserted, is a letter from ilcClures Syndicate. 
 
 143. Clemens (Samuel L.). The American Claimant. By Mark Twain 
 (Samuel L. Clemens). With 81 illustrations by Dan Beard and Hal 
 Hurst. ISmo, original red clothj gilt, uncut. 
 
 London: Chatto & Windus, 1892 
 
 First English Edition, The illustrations by Hurst were made for the 
 Idler Magazine, and were not issued with the American work. 
 
 143. Clemens (Samuel L.). Merry Tales. By Mark Twain. [Fiction, Fact, 
 
 and Fancy Series; Edited by Arthur Stedman.] l2mo, original 
 cloth, partly uncut. ]?Tew York : Charles L. AYebster & Co., 1893 
 
 FmsT ISSUE OF THE FiEST EDITION, With the figured end-papers. Later 
 editions have end-papers plain, and a portrait of the author. First print- 
 ing in book-form for, " Private History of a Campaign that Failed," 
 " The Invalid's Story," " Luck," and " Meisterschaft." 
 
 Autographed on fly-leaf, — " Truly Tours, Mark Ticain." 
 
 144. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Clemens (Will M.). Mark Twain. His 
 
 Life and Work. A Biographical Sketch. Portrait on front cover. 
 16mo, original paper wrappers. 
 
 San Francisco: Clemens Publishing Co., 1893 
 
 Author's presentation copy, with autograph inscription on title-page, — 
 '■ Compliments Will M. Clemens." 
 
 Scarce first issue in book-form of a number of Twain's letters and 
 sketches published originally in newspapers and magazines, and now flrst 
 collected. It is said that but 1,000 copies only were issued of this edition, 
 half of them being in paper wrappers as above. 
 
 145. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Clemens (Will M.). Mark Twain. His 
 
 Life and His Work. 16mo, original cloth. 
 
 San Francisco: Clemens Publishing Co., 1893 
 
 Autographed by the author on fly-leaf, — " Will M. Clemens, Dec. 
 18[98}." Inserted is an A. L. S.. 2 pp. Svo, from Olivia L. Clemens, wife 
 of the humorist, relative to additional biographical notes of him. 
 
146. Clemens (Samuel L.). The £1,000,000 Bank-Note, and Other N'ew 
 
 Stories. By Mark Twain. Frontispiece. 13nio, original cloth, gilt. 
 
 New York : Charles L. Webster and Co., 1893 
 
 FiEST Amebican edition. Contains nine new stobies by Mark Twain. 
 
 Autographed on fly-leaf, — " Truly Yours, Marlt, Twain" and " Also am 1 
 
 Yours Truly Dan Beard." 
 
 147. Clemens (Samuel L.). The £1,000,000 Bank-lSTote, and Other New 
 
 Stories. By Mark Twain. 12mo, original cloth. 
 
 London : Chatto & Windus, 1893 
 First English Edition. 
 
 148. Clemens (Samuel L.). The Niagara Book. A Complete Souvenir of 
 
 Niagara Palls. By W. D. Howells, ]\Iark Twain, and others. Illus- 
 trated hy Harry Fenn. 16mo, original cloth. Buffalo, 1893 
 
 First edition, with the copyright notice in three lines, and no adver- 
 tisements. H. G. McConnaughy's copy, with autograph inscription on 
 fly-leaf. 
 
 Contains the First Appearance of " Extracts from Adam's Diary." 
 
 149. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] The Niagara Book. A Complete Souvenir 
 
 of Niagara Falls. Containing Sketches, &c., by W. D. Howells, 
 Mark Twain, and others. Fully illustrated by Harry Fenn. 16mo, 
 original cloth. Buffalo, 1893 
 
 Another copy of the Original Edition, stated on fly-leaf to have been, — 
 " the first copy sold in Buffalo." 
 
 Pkopebty of Meele Johnson. 
 
 150. Clemens (Samuel L.). The Niagara Book. A Complete Souvenir of 
 
 Niagara Palls. By W. D. Howells, Mark Twain, and others. Illus- 
 trated by Harry Fenn. 16mo, original paper wrappers. Buffalo, 1893 
 Second Edition, with the copyright notice extended from " All Rights 
 Reserved " to " In the United States, England, and Canada." Contains 
 advertisements which do not appear in the First Edition. 
 
 151. Clemens (Samuel L.). Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar for 1894. Set 
 
 up and Printed for Mr. Wilson by Henry Butts, Dawson's Landing, 
 Mo. Portrait of Mark Twain on recto of rear cover. 48mo, original 
 paper wrappers. [New York, 1893] 
 
 Mr. Johnson states that " this book was distributed to both old and 
 prospective subscribers of the Gentnri; Mngnzine just before the com- 
 mencement of the new volume, November, 1893 . . . The ' Calendar ' 
 later appeared as chapter headings in the periodical and book publications 
 of Pudd'nhead." 
 
 Contains a short letter from Mark Twain, and a " fake " printer's ad. 
 on back of cover. 
 
 152. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Liber Scriptorum. The First Book of the 
 
 Authors' Club. [Contains over 100 contributions from American 
 authors, including Samuel L. Clemens, W. D. Howells, Theodore 
 Eoosevelt, Harold Frederic, and others]. With, head and tail pieces 
 especially engraved for the worlc. Imperial 8vo, original full leather 
 binding, gilt, gilt tops, uncut. 
 
 New York : Published by the Authors' Club, 1893 
 
 Contains the First appearance of Twain's " The Californian's Tale " 
 autographed by him in ink, and contributions from 103 other authors each 
 with autograph signature appended. 
 
 No. 7 of 251 copies printed. It is said that over thirty of these were 
 split up into " their component articles and thus destroyed," which would 
 make the actual number of complete copies circulated really less than the 
 quantity stated. 
 
153. Clemens (Samuel L.). Tom Sawyer Abroad. By Huck Finn. Edited 
 
 by Mark Twain. Illustrations hy Dan Beard. Square ISmo, original 
 pictorial cloth. Kew York : Charles L. Webster and Co., 1894 
 
 First printing in book-form of this story which originally appeared as 
 a serial in Sadnt Nicliolas Magazine, in 1893-4, 
 
 Autographed on fly-leaf, — " Truly yours, Marie Twain," and by the illus- 
 trator, Beard, who, also, autographs as follows, — " This book was great to 
 illustrate, if it had not been jmblisbed in St. Nio first. The Editors of 
 St. Nic are such perfect ladies, you know, that they made me put shoes 
 and stockings on Huck Finn and Nigger Tom." 
 
 154. CLEiiENS (Samuel L.). Tom Sawyer Abroad. By ilark Twain (Sam- 
 
 uel L. Clemens). With 26 illustrations hy Dan. Beard. 13mo, orig- 
 inal cloth, uncut. London : Chatto & Windus, 1894 
 First English Edition, the publication of which may, possibly, have 
 antedated the American issue, by a few days. 
 
 155. Clemens (Samuel L.). The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, and the 
 
 Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins. By Mark Twain. With 
 marginal illustrations. 8vo, original cloth, gilt. 
 
 Hartford, Conn: American Publishing Co., 1894 
 First Book printing, with portrait of Mark Twain, inserted, and his 
 inscription. — " Truly Yours, Mark Ttvain," autographed on fly-leaf. 
 , The original appearance of " Pudd'nhead Wilson " was in serial form in 
 the Cmitury Magazine, 1893-4, and did not include the " Extraordinary 
 Twins." 
 
 156. Clemens (Samuel L.). Pudd'nhead Wilson. A Tale. By Mark 
 
 Twain. Portrait of the author by J. M. Dodge, and 6 illustrations 
 by L. Loeh. 13mo, original cloth, uncut, writing on title. 
 
 London: Chatto and Windus, 1894 
 First English Edition, without the marginal illustrations and the 
 comedy, — " Those Extraordinary Twins." This may have been issued a 
 few days before the American publication. 
 
 157. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] The Diversions of an Autograph Hunter. 
 
 By J". H. Facsimile letter by Mark Twain as frontispiece. 12mo, 
 original cloth, uncut . * London, 1894 
 
 158. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Elderkin (John). A Brief History of the 
 
 Lotus Club. Illustrations. 13mo, original cloth, uncut. 
 
 [New York, 1895] 
 
 Privately printed, and autographed on titlepage, — " WitJi Compliments 
 of John Elderkin." This copy contains the Constitution and List of Mem- 
 bers bound in at the end, which were not included in subsequent issues. 
 
 Extracts from several of Mark Twain's speeches are incorporated in 
 this volume, which was never publicly circulated. 
 
 159. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Personal Eecollections of Joan of Arc. By 
 
 the Sieur Louis de Conte (Her Page and Secretary). Freely Trans- 
 lated out of the Ancient French into Modern English . . . By 
 Jean F. Alden. Illustrated from original drawings hy F. V. Du 
 Mond. [Edited by Mark Twain]. Thick ISmo, original red buck- 
 ram, gilt. New York : Harper and Bros., 1896 
 
 Mark Twain's name appears on back and front cover. He has auto- 
 graphed on fly-leaf, — " Truly Yours, Marie Twain." Engraved portrait of 
 Joan in armor inserted. Also autographed by the artist. Prank Vincent 
 Du Mond. 
 
 Published simultaneously with the English fikst EomoN on May 1, 
 1S96. 
 
160. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Personal EecoUections of Joan of Arc. By 
 
 Sieur De Conte (Her Page and Secretary). Edited by Mark Twain. 
 With IS illustrations by F. V. Du Mond. 12mo, original blue cloth, 
 gilt, gilt top, uncut. London: Chatto and AVindus, 1896 
 
 Mrst Englisli Edition, published same time as the American issue. Tliis 
 edition carries the name of Marli: Twain on bacli and title-page. The 
 American book does not mention the name of Twain anywhere inside the 
 same, but does on back and cover. 
 
 161. Clemens (Samuel L.). Tom Sawyer Abroad; Tom Sawyer, Detective; 
 
 and other Stories, &c., &c. By Mark Twain. Illustrated. 12mo, 
 original cloth. New York: Harper and Bros., 1896 
 
 Autographed on verso of front cover by, — "Marie Ticuin," and by "His 
 great admirer TUin Beard." First Edition for " Tom Sawyer, Detective."" 
 
 162. Clemens (Samuel L.). Tom Sawyer, Detective. As Told by Huck 
 
 Finn, and Other Tales. By Mark Twain. Portrait of the author, in- 
 serted. 12mo, original cloth. London: Chatto and Windus, 1897 
 
 FiEST EDITIONS of " How to Tell a Story," " Mental Telegraphv Again,"" 
 " "What Paul Bour^'et Thinks of I's," " A Little Note to M. Paul Bourget." 
 
 163. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Donaldson (Thomas). AYalt ■\ATiitman, The 
 
 Man. Illustrations. 13mo, original buckram, gilt top, uncut 
 
 New York, 1896 
 
 Contains a short letter from JIark Twain in which he encloses ?10.00 
 towards the payment of a horse and buggy for A^'hitmau. 
 
 164. Clemens (Samuel L.). How to tell a Story, and other Essays. By 
 
 Mark Twain. 12mo, original cloth, gilt. 
 
 New York: Harper and Bros., 1897 
 
 Autographed, — " Truly Tours, Marie Tv:ain," on fly-leaf. 
 
 First edition for,— " In Defence of Harriet Shelley," " Feuimore 
 Cooper's Literary Offences," " Travelling with a Reformer," " Private His- 
 tory of the 'Jumping Frog' Story." The others had appeared in the 
 " Tow Sawyer, Detective," volume published in England during the year 
 previous. 
 
 165. Clemens (Samuel L.). Following the Equator. A Journey Around 
 
 theWorld. By ilark Twain. Numerous illusiraiions, including por- 
 trait of Twain on shipboard and in a bullock cart, both on Japanese 
 paper, and a 3 pp. 12mo. facsimile letter of the author. 8vo, green 
 cloth, gilt top, paper label, uncut. 
 
 Hartford: American Publishing Co., 189S 
 
 No. 4 of the Author's Signed Edition, with crossed autograph signatures 
 of "S. L. Clemens" and "Mark Twain." 
 
 Although 250 copies were supposed to have been issued of this very 
 attractive edition, the actual number was conslderablv less, — one account 
 has as low as sixty copies, — because of the fear that if the entire 250 
 copies were autographed, the sale of the anticipated " Pulilishers' Auto- 
 graph Edition " would be materially diminished. 
 
166. Clemens (Sasiuel L.). Following the Equator. A Joiiraey Around 
 
 the World. BjjjVIark Twain. Numerous illustrations by Dan Beard, 
 B. W. Glinedinst, Peter Newell, and others, including portrait of 
 Twain on shipboard, inserted. 8vo, original blue clothj gilt. 
 
 Hartfordj Conn.: American Publishing Co., 1897 
 
 First published edition and earliest issue with the kectangulae 
 pictobial design of the elephant on fkont covee. 
 
 Autographed by two of the illustrators, Dan Beard and Peter Newell. 
 
 Inserted is a L.S., Ip. folio, from F. E. B]iss of the American Publishing 
 Co., relative to the work. 
 
 167. Clemens (Samuel L.). Following the Equator. A Journey Around 
 
 the World. By Mark Twain. Agents' sheets showing specimen 
 pages of the complete work, samples of binding, &c. Portrait: and 
 illustrations, by Dan Beard, Peter Newell, and others. 8vo, original 
 blue cloth, gilt. Hartford, Conn. : American Publishing Co., 1897 
 Shows pictorial design of elephant on front cover. 
 
 168. Clemens (Samuel L.). More Tramps Abroad. By Mark Twain. 
 
 12ino, original brown cloth, gilt, gilt top, uncut. 
 
 London: Chatto and Windus, 1897 
 Fine copt of the First English Edition, published about the same time 
 as its American equivalent, " Following the Equator." 
 
 169. Clemens (Samuel L.). Another Copy, in poor condition, but contain- 
 
 ing Mr. Johnson's bibliographical note on half-title. 
 
 170. [Clemens (Samuel L.)-] Sixty and Six Chips from Literary Work- 
 
 shops. Edited by Will j\I. Clemens. Frontispiece hy Keyes on Chi- 
 nese paper. 16mo., original pictorial cloth. New York, [1897] 
 
 Mark Twain's article on the " Panama Railroad " appears herein. It is 
 said to he an excerpt from a contribution to a Chicago newspaper. 
 
 Autographed by the compiler on flj'-leaf. 
 
 171. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Queen Victoria's Jubilee. The Great Pro- 
 
 cession of June 23, 1897, in the Queen's Honor, Reported both in 
 the Light of History, and as a Spectacle. By Mark Twain. Illus- 
 trations. 8vo, original boards, cloth back, uncut. 
 
 Privately Printed [New York, n.d] circa 1897 
 
 First edition in book form, and No. 1 of 195 copies printed for private 
 distribution. This volume is accompanied by the original page-proofs and 
 impressions of illustrations, with corrections and notations in several 
 autographs. 
 
 The initial appearance of this work was in the 'New York Journal, 
 June 21 and 23, 1897. The date of its issue in book form is uncertain ; 
 it may have been several years after its newspaper presentation, or it may 
 have been in 1897 or 189S. Mr. Johnson states that it was issued " pre- 
 vious to 190S." 
 
 173. [Clemens (Sa:^iuel L.).] Clemens (Will M.). A Ken of Kipling. 
 Being a Biographical Sketch of Rudyard Kipling, with an Apprecia- 
 ciation and some Anecdotes. Portrait and illustrations. 16mo, 
 cloth, uncut, name on p. 9. New York, 1899 
 
 Author's presentation copy with autograph inscription on fly-leaf. Con- 
 tains the story of Mr. Kipling's interview with Mark Twain, as it origin- 
 ally appeared in the New Yoi-lc Herald over Mr. Kipling's signature, on 
 August 17, 1890. 
 
 Not described in Mr. Johnson's Bibliography. Phopebty of Meele 
 
 J0H>"S0N. 
 
173. Clemens (Samuel L.)- How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays. By 
 
 Mark Twain. [Biographical Sketch by Samuel E. MofEett]. Illus- 
 trations, two of the plates autographed by the illustrators, G. D. Wel- 
 don and Peter Newell. 8vo, original half morocco, gilt, gilt top, 
 uncut. Hartford, Conn. : American Publishing Co., 1900 
 
 This is Vol. XXII. of the " Autograph Edition " of Twain's • works, 
 limited to 512 copies, and is the first edition for the following, — " Stirring 
 Times in Austria," " Concerning the Jews," " From the ' London Times ' 
 of 1904," " At the Appetite Cure " and " In Memoriam." 
 
 Mr. Johnson states that the " same plates were used in printing several 
 editions, but the book collated above . . . went first to press." 
 
 Inserted is a L.S. Ip. folio, from Mr. Walter Bliss of the American 
 Publishing Co. regarding the work. 
 
 174. Clemens (Samuel L.). The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg, and 
 
 other Stories and Essays. By Mark Twain. Illustrations. 13mo, 
 original red cloth. New York : Harper & Bros., 1900 
 
 FlKST EDITION, EAELIEST ISSUE, FEINTED ON THICKBE PAPEE THAN THAT 
 
 USED IN A LATER ISSUE OF SAME EDITION, also, with the gilt lettering on 
 back NOT running close to sides, as in item following. 
 
 Eight pieces in this volume are published for the First time, in book 
 form, viz.,—" My Debut as a Literary Person," " My First Lie, &c.," " Is 
 He Living or is He Dead? " " Esquimau Maiden's Romance," " About Play 
 Acting," " Austrian Edison, &c.," " My Boyhood Dreams," and the sketch 
 giving title to the volume. 
 
 Inserted is a slip of paper autographed, — " Truly Tours, Mark Twain, 
 Jan. 22, 1901." 
 
 175. Clemens (Samuel L.). The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg, and 
 
 other Stories and Sketches. By Jtlark Twain. Illustrations. 12mo, 
 original red cloth, name erased from title-page. 
 
 New York : Harper and Bros., 1900 
 
 First edition. Second Issue, printed on thinner paper than the preced- 
 ing, with the gilt lettering on back extending close to sides. 
 
 The paper used in running off the issue of the First Edition was changed 
 from a heavier to a lighter weight during the process of printing. This 
 volume is noticeably thinner than the item preceding, the difference being 
 accounted for by reason of the change mentioned. 
 
 176. Clemens (Samuel L.). The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg, and 
 
 other Stories and Sketches. By Mark Twain. Frontispiece by L. 
 Hitchcoclx . 12mo, original cloth, gilt, gilt top, uncut. 
 
 London: Chatto and Windus, 1900 
 
 First English Edition, with the alteration of the word " Essays " in the 
 title to " Sketches." 
 
 177. Clemens (Samuel L.). The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg, and 
 
 other Stories and Sketches. By Mark Twain. Copyright Edition. 
 In Two Volumes. [Collection of British Authors, Tauchnitz Edi- 
 tion. Vols. 3453 and 3454]. 16mo, paper wrappers, uncut. 
 
 Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1900 
 
 FnssT EDITION in book form of " Christian Science and the Book of Mrs. 
 Eddy " and " Diplomatic Pay and Clothes." Judging from the covers and 
 the advertisements, this is not the earliest issue. 
 
178. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Pond (Major J. B.). Eccentricities of 
 
 Genius. Memories of Famous Men and Women of the Platform and 
 Stage. Portraits. 8vo, original red clothj gilt, gilt top. 
 
 New York, [1900] 
 
 FiEST ISSUE OF THE FiKST EDITION. Later copies are in maroon cloth. 
 According to Mr. Johnson, this volume contains, — " Mark Twain's lecture 
 tour across the continent, under the management of Pond, detailed on 
 pp. 197-233, including many Mark Twain letters and anecdotes. The 
 journey was the one undertaken to clear off the Webster debts, and was 
 continued on around the world, as related in ' Following the Equator.' 
 Two speeches are given, ' Introducing Nye and Riley ' and ' Introducing 
 Henry M. Stanley.' " 
 
 Author's presentation copy to Poultney Bigelow, with long autograph 
 inscription on fly-leaf. 
 
 179. Clemens (Samuel L.). English as She is Taught. By Mark Twain. 
 
 With Biographical Sketch of the Author. By Matthew I. Lans. . 
 13mo, original cloth, uncut. Boston, 1900 
 
 FiBST Ameeican issue of this material, the original of which was pub- 
 lished in London in 1SS7. [See Nos. 120 and 121 of this catalogue.] 
 Autographed " Mark Twain " on verso of front cover. 
 
 180. Clemens (Samuel L.). Another copy in paper wrappers, uncut. Not 
 
 autographed. 
 
 181. [Clemens (Samuel L.) .] Masterpieces of American Eloquence 
 
 [Christian Herald Selection]. With Introduction by Julia Ward 
 Howe. Portraits and illustrations. Square 8vo, original cloth, gilt. 
 New York : Christian Herald, 1900 
 Includes two speeches of Mark Twain, — (1) "The Discounts of an 
 Author " given at a banquet of ex-Confederate and Union soldiers in New 
 York, October 12, 1890, and (2) "An Author's Soldiering," at a banquet of 
 the Union veterans in Baltimore. 
 
 18S. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Eive Famous Missourians. Authenticated 
 Biographical Sketches of Samuel L. Clemens, [and others]. By 
 W. E. Hollister and Harry Norman [Etc.]. 13mo, cloth. 
 
 Kansas City, Mo., 1900 
 Contains letters, quotations and anecdotes of Mark Twain on the sheets 
 of the First Edition, though possibly not the first binding. 
 
 Inserted is a L. S., 1 p. folio, from the Bryant and Douglas Stationery 
 Co., referring to the volume. 
 
 183. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Modern Eloquence. Edited by Thomas B. 
 Keed, Justin McCarthy, Eossiter Jolmson, &c. Speeches and Lec- 
 tures. Vols. I., lY. and V. only. Engraved portraits on Japanese 
 paper, and tinted ornamental title-pages. Together, 3 vols. 8yo, full 
 dark-red levant morocco, gilt, gilt tops, uncut. 
 
 New York: University Society, [1900] 
 
 No 11 of the Autograph Edition de Luxe limited to 500 copies, with the 
 signatures of T. B. Reed and Bossiter Johnson on the illuminated limit- 
 page. 
 
 Includes several speeches by Mark Twain, three of which are here first 
 printed in book form, — " A Literary Episode," " Sandwich Islands " and 
 " Introducing Charles Kingsley." 
 
At The American Art Galleries 
 
 MADISON SQUARE SOUTH, NEW YORK 
 UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE BY ORDER OF THE OWNERS 
 
 Second and Concluding Session, Nos. 184 to 366, Inclusive 
 
 TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20th, AT 8.15 O'CLOCK 
 
 184. Clemexs (Samuel L.). Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany. By 
 
 ilark Twain, a Member of the Order of Acorns. Facsimile signature 
 of Mark Twain. Small 4to, original paper wrappers. 
 
 [New York, 1901] 
 
 This address was prepared for publication in the North American 
 Review, but because of its " great force " it was issued in this form 
 instead, the editor of the Review believing that the address should reach 
 the citizens of New York before its publication in his magazine. 
 
 185. Clemens (Samuel L.). To the Person Sitting in Darkness. By Mark 
 
 Twain. 16mo, unbound. 
 
 [New York] : Reprinted from the North American Eeview, Feb- 
 ruary, 1901. 
 
 Scarce. Autographed, — " Truly Yours, Marie Twain." Printed and cir- 
 culated by the Anti-Imperialist League of New York, which, according to 
 a postal card accompanying the pamphlet, had 125,000 copies distributed 
 gratis, and now long out of print. 
 
 Mr. Johnson thinks that " there must have been more than one printing 
 of the item. It is now so scarce that I can give no hint of any distinc- 
 tions." 
 
 186. [Clemexs (Samuel L.).] Speeches at the Lotos Club. Arranged by 
 
 John Elderkin, Chester S. Lord, Horatio N. Eraser. Portraits; and 
 illuminated title-page, on Japanese paper. 8vo, cloth, gilt top, uncut. 
 
 New l^ork : Privately Printed, 1901 
 
 One of 900 copies on specially made paper. From the library of Edmund 
 Clarence Stedman. with bookplate, and long autograph presentation in- 
 scription on fly-leaf by John Elderkin, whose portrait is inserted. 
 
 Speech by Mark Twain will be found on pp. 374-379. 
 
 187. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Speeches at the Lotos Club. Arranged by 
 
 John Elderldn, Chester S. Lord, Charles "\V. Price. Portraits; arid 
 illuminated title-page on Japanese paper. 8vo, cloth, gilt top, uncut. . 
 New Y^'ork : Printed for the Lotos Club, 1901 
 One of 950 copies on specially made paper. Speeches by Mark Twain 
 will be found on pp. 12, 35, 99, 344, and 415. 
 
18S. CLEiii:xs (Samuel L.). A Double Barrelled Detective Stoiy. By Mark 
 T^'ain. Illustrated hy Lucius Hitchcock, and printed in hlack and 
 red througJiout. 13mOj original red cloth., gilt, gilt top, uncut. 
 
 New York and London : Harper and Bros., 1902 
 First American edition, with green borders around the illustrations. 
 Autographed by ^I;irk Twain and Lucius Hitchcock, 
 
 189. Clemens (Samuel L.). A Double Barrelled Detective Story. By ^lark 
 
 Twain. Illustrated hy Lucius ITitchcoch. 12mo, original blue cloth, 
 gilt, uncut. , London : Catto and Windus, 1902 
 
 First English Edition, issued, probably, at the same time as the preced- 
 ing. Printed in black and red, with red borders, instead of green, around 
 the illustrations. Apparently printed from duplicate plates of the 
 American edition. 
 
 190. Clemexs (Samuel L.). A Double Barrelled Detective Story, Etc. By 
 
 iJark Twain. [Collection of British Authors. Tauchnitz Edition.] 
 lOmo, original paper wrappers, uncut. ■ 
 
 Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1902 
 
 C.'(int;iins the First, and, up to 1910, the only publication in book form 
 nf ■' A Defense of General Funston " ; and the First printing in this shape 
 of " Two Little Tales," and " The Death Disk." 
 
 191. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Authors of our Day in their Homes. Per- 
 
 sonal Descriptions and Interviews. Edited with Additions by Fran- 
 cis W. Halsev. ]Yith 17 illustrations. 13mo, original cloth, gilt, gilt 
 top. " New York, 1902 
 
 Autographed by the editor ou title-page. Contains sketch of Mark 
 
 Twain. 
 
 192. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] The "Man in the Street" Stories. Erom 
 
 the " jSTew York Times." Introduction by Chauncey M. Depew. Por- 
 trait of Depeiu. 12mo, original cloth. New York [1902] 
 
 Anecdotes of Twain, reprinted from the " New York Times," will be 
 found on pp. 5S, 113, 116, 143, 179, 212, 247, and 294. 
 
 193. Clemens (Samuel L.). Mark TwainV Birthday. Keport of the Cele- 
 
 bration of the Sixty-Seventh thereof at the Metropolitan Club, New 
 York, November 38, 1902. Portraits. Svo. original red boards, gilt 
 top, uncut. [New York, 1902] 
 
 One of about 300 copies privately printed by Colonel George Harvey, 
 whose autograph signature is ou fly-leaf. Contains Mark Twain's speech 
 upon that occasion. 
 
 194. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Two Hundred After Dinner Stories as told 
 
 by ilany American Humorists. 13mo, original pictorial wrappers. 
 New York: Ogilvie Publishing Co., 1902 
 
 The publishers have autographed as follows on recto of front cover, — 
 " This is to certify that this book is one of the First Edition printed from 
 these plates. J. S. Ogilvie Pub. Co. per F. B. Ogilvie, Pres. Aug. 6, 1912." 
 
 Numerous anecdotes by Twain are included, a few here first published 
 in book form. 
 
 19.!). [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Another copy, similar. Not autographed. 
 
196. CLEMEN'S (Samuel L.). My Debut as a Literary Person, mth other 
 
 Essays and Stories. By Mark Twain. Portrait, and illustrations, 
 several plates signed by the artists. 8ro, half morocco, gilt, gilt top, 
 uncut. Hartford, Conn. : American Publishing Co., 1903 
 
 One of 512 copies of the Limited Autograph Edition (Vol. XXIII. only). 
 First appearance in book form for " The Belated Russian Passport," and 
 first American edition for "Two Little Tales," "Diplomatic Pay and 
 Clothes," and " The Death Disk." The three latter were first printed in 
 the Tauchnitz Edition of 1900. 
 
 197. Clemens (Samuel L.). " A Dog's Tale." By Mark Twain. Reprinted. 
 
 by Permission from Harper's Magazine, Christmas Xumber, 1903. 
 With 4- illustrations by W. T. Smedley. 8vo, original paper wrappers. 
 
 [New York] : Printed for the National Anti- Vivisection Society 
 [1903] 
 
 Note by Mr. Johnson reads, — " A few copies printed [about 50] from 
 the Magazine type before book publication, and mainly forwarded to the 
 persons listed on rear cover with the object of obtaining letters for use 
 in advertising the book." 
 
 Autographed by the artist. 
 
 198. Clemens (Samuel L.). The Jumping Prog in English, then in Erench, 
 
 then Clawed back into a Civilized Language once more by Patient, 
 Unremunerated Toil. By Mark Twain. Illustrated by F. Strath- 
 man. 12mo, original pictorial cloth. 
 
 New York and London : Harper and Bros., 1903 
 First printing only for Note on pp. 64-66. Autographed by the artist on 
 title-page. 
 
 199. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Masterpieces of Wit and Humor. With 
 
 Stories and an Introduction by Robert J. Burdette. Illustrations by 
 F. Opper, J. T. McCutclieon, B. L. Dickey, and others. Square Svo, 
 original cloth, gilt, one corner of title slightly damaged. 
 
 [No place, 1903] 
 
 Although date of copyright appears on title-page as 1902, there seems 
 
 to be no record of it in Washington before 1903. Includes five pieces by 
 
 Mark Twain, two of which, — " New Ideas on Farming," and " Did not 
 
 Hurt the Mule," — cannot be traced elsewhere. 
 
 200. Clemens (Samuel L.). A Dog's Tale. By Mark Twain. Colored illus- 
 
 trations by W. T. Smedley. 12mo, original pictorial cloth. 
 
 New York and London : Harper and Bros., 1904 
 FiBST EDITION IN BOOK FOEM. Previously published as a pamphlet, about 
 50 copies in all, and used for presentation copies to members of the Anti- 
 Vivisection Society [See No. 197]. Autographed on verso of front cover, 
 Mark Twain. 
 
 201. Clemens (Samuel L.). Another copy, similar. Not autographed. 
 
 202. Clemens (Samuel L.). A Dog's Tale. By Mark Twain. Colored illus- 
 
 trations by W. T. Smedley. 12mo, original pictorial cloth. 
 
 London and New York: Harper and Bros. [Printed in the TTni- 
 • ted States of America], 1905 
 
 First English Edition, identical with the American, and probablv issued 
 about the same time. 
 
^03. Clemens (Samuel L.). Extracts from Adam's Diary. Translated from 
 the Original MS. By Mark Twain. Illustrated hy F. Strothmann. 
 12mo, original cloth. 
 
 ~^ew York and London : Harper and Bros., 1904 
 
 Autographed by Mark Twain aaa F. Strotliman. 
 
 In the preliminary note, appearing for the first time in this edition, 
 Twain states : *' I translated a portion of this Diary some years ago, 
 and a friend of mine printed a few copies in an incomplete form, but the 
 public never got them." 
 
 Inasmuch as the " Diary " was first published in the " Niagara Book " 
 in 1S93, which was several times reissued, the public must have " got " 
 some of the extracts, at least. Except, perhaps, for the additions, the 
 " Diary " here published is identical with that of the " Niagara Book." 
 
 204. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Carter (M. H.^Editor). Cat Stories, Ee- 
 told from St. Nicholas. Numerous illustrations. ISmo, original 
 cloth. New York: Century Co., 1904 
 
 Letter of Mark Twain's is printed on p. 4, and concerns his cats. It 
 was originally printed in St. Nicholas Magazine as a letter to Edwin 
 Wildman, 
 
 -205. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Th. Nast; His Period and His Pictures. By 
 Albert Bigelow Paine. Portrait of Nast and numerous reproductions 
 of his caricatures, &c. Square 8vo, original cloth, gilt, gilt top. 
 
 New York : Macmillan Co., 1904 
 On pp. 263, 367-8 and 513 will be found letters of Mark Twain, one of 
 them concerning a joint lecture tour projected by himself and Nast. 
 
 On fly-leaf is signature of A. B. Paine, together with several lines in 
 his autograph. 
 
 506. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] After-Dinner Stories. Compiled and Edited 
 by C. M. Dolliver. 24mo, original cloth. 
 
 New York and Chicago : Will Bossiter, 1904 
 Original edition. Contains three anecdotes by Twain. 
 
 ■207. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] After-Dinner Stories. Compiled and Edited 
 by C. M. Dolliver. 24mo, original pictorial wrappers. 
 
 New York: J. S. Ogilvie Pub. Co. [1904] 
 Reprint of the preceding item. 
 
 ^08. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Autobiography, Memories and Experiences 
 of Moncure Daniel Conway. Portraits and illustrations. 2 vols. 8vo, 
 original buckram, paper labels, uncut. 
 
 Boston : Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1904 
 FiEST EDITION, limited to 100 copies. Autographed by Conway on fly- 
 leaf of Volume I. Anecdotes by Mark Twain will be found in Volume 11. 
 From the library of Collin Armstrong with his bookplate in each volume. 
 
 "?09. Clemens (Samuel L.). Printed acknowledgment of the sympathy 
 shown Twain at the time of his wife's death. Within heavy mourn- 
 ing borders, autographed in full — " S. L. Clemens" 2 pp., 13mo. 
 
 1904 
 " To whom this shall come : For what you have said, I thank you 
 more than I can tell. If I could, I would thank with my own hand and 
 pen each friend who has remembered me and mine with a kindly word of 
 sympathy in this heavy time, but I am not able to do it. Therefore 1 
 beg that this general acknowledgment may be accepted as a token of the 
 gratitude, unexpressed and inexpressible, which is in my heart. Florence, 
 Italy, June, 1904." 
 
210. Clemens (Samuel L.). King Leopold's Soliloquy. A Defense of his 
 
 Congo Eule. By Mark Twain. Full page plates and text illiistra- 
 tions. 12mo, original light-green wrappers with circular ornament 
 on yellow ground. Boston: The P. K. Warren Co., 190D 
 
 First edition, first issue," autographed by Mark Twain on half-title. 
 Inserted is a L. S., 1 p. 4to, from the Congo Reform Association in refer- 
 ence to the pamphlet. 
 
 211. Clemens (Samuel L.). King Leopold's Soliloquy. A Defense of his 
 
 Congo Eule. By Mark Twain. Full page plates and text illustra- 
 tions. 13mo, gray wrappers with circular ornament on yeUow ground. 
 
 Boston : The P. E. Warren Co., 1905 
 
 Second Edition, really the third printing, is the First Edition for 
 " Supplementary," not included in item preceding this. 
 
 312. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] After-Dinner Stories. Compiled by E. C. 
 Lewis. Pictorial title. 12mo, limp leather, uncut. 
 
 Boston : Mutual Book Co. [190-5] 
 
 Contains several anecdotes by Mark Twain. 
 
 213. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Mark Twain's Seventieth Birthday. Eecord 
 
 of a dinner given in his honor, with photographs of more than one 
 hundred authors of imaginative literature who were present, together 
 with addresses by Mark Twain, W. D. Howells, Henry Van Dyke, 
 and others. Full-page and text-portraits. Folio, original wrappers. 
 
 New York, 1905 
 
 Autographed by Colonel George Harvey. Mark Twain's speech on pp. 
 .S-4. This was distributed, minus cover, as a supplement to Harper's 
 Weeklj/. 
 
 214. Clemens (Samuel L.). Editorial Wild Oats. By Mark Twain. Illus- 
 
 traied by F. Opper and F. Strothman. 12mo, original cloth. 
 
 New York and London: Harper & Bros., 1905 
 Eeprinted sketches. Autographed by Mark T■^^'ain and both illustrators. 
 
 215. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] What is Man? 8vo, original boards, uncut. 
 
 New York : De Yinne Press, 1906 
 
 Original edition, published anonymously and limited to 250 copies, 
 which were circulated among Twain's personal friends, public acknowl- 
 edgment of his authorship being withheld until after his death. 
 
 A note by Mr. Johnson states, — " While fear of being misunderstood 
 deterred him [Twain] from publicly publishing his views in 1906, in 
 1910 the faith that was in him was so strong that an article in Harper's 
 Bazar for February, 1910, ' The Turning Point of My Life,' contains an 
 almost complete exposition of that same philosophy." 
 
 It may have been this very article that was published in a pirated book 
 form in London, 1910, under the caption, "What is Man?" which work 
 does not seem to be included in the .Tohnson bibliography. This English 
 edition was rigidly suppressed ; but two copies only appear to have been 
 offered by auction in this country. 
 
216. Clemens (Samuel L.), The $30,000 Bequest, and other Stories. By 
 
 Mark Twain. Portrait and illustrations. ISmo, original cloth, gilt. 
 Kew York and London: Harper and Bros., 1906 
 
 FiBST EDITION for nineteen of the thirty-eight pieces here collected, viz. : 
 "Was it Heaven, or HellV" " HeliJless Situation," "Telephonic Conversa- 
 tion," "Edward Mills and George Benton," "Saint Joan of Arc," "Five 
 Boons of Life," " First Writing Machines," " Italian Withont a Master," 
 " Burlesque Biography," " General Washington's Negro Body Servant," 
 " Wit Inspirations of the ' Two- Year-Olds,' " " An Entertaining Article," 
 " Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury," " Amended Obituaries," " Monu- 
 ment to Adam," " Humane Word from Satan," " Portrait of King William 
 III.," " Does the Race of Man Love a Lord?" besides the story that gives 
 title to the volume. 
 
 Autographed by the illustrator on p. 183. 
 
 217. Clemens (Samuel L.). The $30,000 Bequest, and other Stories. By 
 
 Mark Twain. Portrait and illustrations. 12mo, original cloth. 
 
 New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1906 
 
 First English Edition, with the addition of the line, — " Printed in TJ. S. 
 of America " under the copyright notice. These are the sheets of the 
 American edition issued in London at the same time of their apiiearance 
 in this country. 
 
 S18. [Clemens (Samuel L.). Their Husbands' Wives. Harpers Novelettes. 
 Edited by W. D. Howells and Henry M. Alden. 12nio, original 
 cloth. New York: Harper and Bros., 1906 
 
 Contains contributions by Mark Twain, A. M. Roach, Emery. Pottle, 
 George Hibbard and Grace E. Channing. The first-named author's " Eve's 
 Diary " appears here for the first time in book form. It antedates by 
 four months the First Separate Edition next described. 
 
 W. D. Howells has autographed the fly-leaf as follows, — " Merle John- 
 soli's Book — IF. D. MowelVs Name" 
 
 219. Clemens (Samuel L.) . Eve's Diary. Translated from the Original j\IS. 
 
 By Mark Twain. Illustrated by Lester Ralpli. 12nio, original cloth. 
 
 London and New York: Harper and Bros., 1906 
 
 First separate edition. In answer to the question written on fly-leaf 
 in an unknown hand, — "Is it true that fools objected to Eve's appearance 
 in frontispiecef" the author has inscribed, — "Yes — one or two coxintry 
 libraries. Mark Twain." Signed, also, by Lester Ralph. 
 
 Not listed in Johnson's Bibliography. 
 
 330. Clemens (Samuel L.). Mark Twain on Simplified Spelling. (A Speech 
 at the Annual Dinner of the Associated Press held in New York, 
 September 19, 1906, revised expressly for the Simplified Spelling 
 Board.) 8vo, 4 pp., unbound. [New York, 1906] 
 
 Circular No. 9, issued Nov. 10, 1906, by the Simplified Spelling Board. 
 Probably the First Issue of this pamphlet, as it contains the smooth line 
 "reached except thru you," which is damaged in later issues, as note in 
 copy immediately following. 
 
 231. Clemens (Samuel L.). Mark Twain on Simplified Spelling. Another 
 • copy, probably later issue as it contains the damaged words, " reached 
 except thru you," which Mr. Johnson states is a sign to that effect. 
 Property of Merle Johnson. 
 
232. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Copyright Hearings, December 7 to 11, 1906. 
 Arguments before the Committees on Patents ... to Amend 
 and Consolidate the Acts respecting Copyright. 8vo, original paper 
 wrappers. Washington : Government Printing OfEice, 1906 
 
 Mark Twain's argument before the Committee is on pp. 116-121. In- 
 serted is a L. S., 1 p. 4to, from the Library of Congress concerning the 
 publication. 
 
 323. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] History of the Ohio Society of New York. 
 1885-1905. Prepared and Compiled under the direction of Henry L. 
 Burnett, James H. Kennedy [and others]. Colored frontispiece, por- 
 traits, &c. Eoyal 8vo, original cloth, gilt top. 
 
 New York: The Grafton Press, 1906 
 
 Limited edition. Includes the following letter from Mark Twain: — 
 " To the Ohio Society, Greeting. I have at this moment received a very 
 kind invitation (eleven days old) from Mr. Southard, president, and a 
 like one (ten days old) from Mr. Bryant ... I should like to know 
 the name of the lightning express by which they were forwarded, for I 
 owe a friend a dozen of chickens. I believe it will be cheaper to send 
 eggs instead, and let them develop on the road." 
 
 224. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Special Performance of Haensel and Gretei 
 by the Conried Metropolitan Opera Company for the Benefit of the 
 Legal Aid Society at the Metropolitan Opera House, Thursday eve- 
 ning, March 15, 1906. Numerous portraits and illustrations. 8vo, 
 original paper wrappers. [New York, 1906] 
 
 Letter from Mark Twain on pp. 24-26. 
 
 2-25. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] How Eev. Wiggia rewrote Mrs. Eddy's Book ; 
 or The Peculiar Chapter in Christian Science. By Livingston "Wright. 
 Eeprinted from the New YorTc ^Yorld. 12mo, original paper wrap- 
 pers. [Brookline, Mass., 1906] 
 
 Includes letter from Mark Twain dated Riverdale, New York City, 
 April 17, 1903, entitled " Mark Twain endorses Mr. Wright's Manuscript," 
 which he states, — " is convincingly strong— strong enough, in my belief, to 
 prove to every intelligent non-Scientist that Mrs. Eddy and God did not 
 write ' Science and Health.' " 
 
 Speaking of his own elaborate arguments against the Eddy authorship 
 of that work, he considers they have been much better presented by Mr. 
 Wright, saying, " its like a man trying to prove by labored and finespun 
 logic that there has been a murder, and then, when he gets through, 
 remarking to the stage manager, ' Ask Mr. Wright to fetch in that 
 corpse.' " 
 
 226. Clemens (Samuel L.). Christian Science. With Notes concerning Cor- 
 rections to Date. By Mark Twain. Portrait, and illustrations. 
 12mo, sheets, roughly stitched and crudely bound in brown paper 
 wrappers, edges untrimmed. 
 
 New York and London : Harper and Bros., 1907 
 
 FiEST COMPLETE EDITION AND AN EAELT COPY, hastily put together and 
 used, perhaps, by the bindery to show the oflBce how the folded •sheets 
 would look before trimming and covering. 
 
 Much of this work appeared originally in magazine form. Chapters 
 I-IY published in the Tauchnitz Edition of " Hadleyburg," in 1900. 
 
327. Clemens (Samuel L.)- Christian Science. With Kotes containing 
 Corrections to Date. Portrait and illustrations. 13mo, original 
 cloth. New York and London : Harper and Bros., 1907 
 
 FmsT EDITION. Autographed by Mark Twain with signature and three 
 lines of writing beneath a question in unknown hand: — [Query] "This 
 book should live when the delusion is dead. Is there any danger that a 
 majority of the race will become insane?" [Answer in Twain's auto- 
 graph]. "Only a very small ■nvinority can properly claim to le sane. 
 MarTc Twain." 
 
 238. Clemens (Samuel L.). Another copy, similar. Contains bibliograph- 
 ical note by Mr. Johnson. 
 
 329. Clemens (Samuel L.). A Horse's Tale. By Mark Twain. Illustrated 
 
 by Lucius Hitchcock. 13mo, original cloth. 
 
 Kew York and London : Harper and Bros., 3907 
 
 FiBST PUBLISHED EDITION, autographed by both author and illustrator. 
 Appeared originally in Harper's Magazine for August and September, 1906. 
 
 According to Mr. Johnson's statement, " a few copies of this story were 
 first printed from the magazine type, bound in wrappers, and privately dis- 
 tributed, it is said, principally to persons connected with the Society for 
 the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ... I have yet to see a copy of 
 this issne." 
 
 330. Clemens (Samuel L.). A Horse's Tale. By Mark Twain. Illustrated 
 
 by Lucitls Hitchcock. 13mo, original cloth. 
 
 London and New York: Harper and Bros., 1907 
 
 First English Edition, being the New York sheets, with slightly diEPerent 
 imprint and with the line, " Printed in United Statra of America " added 
 on copyright page. 
 
 Inserted is an exceedingly interesting A.L.S., 3pp. square Svo, from the 
 artist relative to the illustrations, their approval by Twain, &c. 
 
 331. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] The Wit and Humor of America. Edited by 
 
 Kate Milner Rabb. Volume V. Only. Portrait of Mark Twain. 
 8vo, original cloth. Indianapolis, [1907] 
 
 The following sketches by Twain are included, — " Nevada Sketches," 
 " The Great Prize Fight " and " The Evidence in the Case of Smith vs. 
 Jones." 
 
 Inserted is an A. L. S., 4 pp. 16mo, from the editor, in which she states 
 that these selections were " extracted from old San Francisco newspapers, 
 the hardhearted Harpers refusing to let us use any of the copyrighted 
 material." 
 
 The sketches are interesting as average specimens of Twain's earliest 
 literary effort. As the San Francisco holocaust of a few years ago prac- 
 tically wijwd out the files of newspapers in which the sketches appeared, 
 this volume has become valuable as a permanent record of them. 
 
 233. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] The Savage Club. A Medley of History, 
 Anecdote and Eeminiscence. By Aaron Watson. With a Chapter 
 by Mark Twain- Colored plates by Phil May, Lance Thackery, and 
 others, and numerous illustrations. Svo, white boards, with orna- 
 mental gilt and maroon cover design, gilt top, uncut. 
 
 London: T. Fisher TJnwin, 1907 
 Mark Twain contributes Chapter XII. In the Chapter preceding are 
 anecdotes and notes xmder the caption, — " Artemus Ward and Mark 
 Twain." 
 
333. [Clemexs (.Samuel L.).] The American Society in London. Eeport of 
 the Speeches at the Independence Day Banquet, July 4th, 1907. Held 
 at the Hotel Cecil, London. Oblong 8vo, original boards, cloth 
 back. [London, 1907] 
 
 Printed for private circulation. Twain's speecli is on pp. 14-18, and con- 
 tains bis declaration that, — " Our Fourth of July ... is an English 
 institution, not an American one, and it comes of a great ancestry . 
 The Declaration of Independence was written by a British subject, every 
 name signed to it was the name of a British subject . . . Americans 
 did not begin until seven years later, [when] the American Republic was 
 established." 
 
 234. [Clemexs (Samuel L.).] Extracts from the Minutes and Eeport of the 
 
 Eobert Fulton Monument Association ... for presentation at 
 the Annual Meeting held ... at the Waldorf-Astoria, Nov. 
 14, 1907. Many portraits. 24mo, original wrappers. 
 
 [New York, 1907] 
 Includes remarks by Mark Twain and extracts from his letters. 
 
 235. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] In Lighter Vein. A Collection of Anecdotes, 
 
 Bon ]\Iots, &c., by Well-Known Men and Women Prominent in the 
 Public Eye. By John De Morgan, [Editor]. Colored frontispiece 
 by Merle Johnson. 12mo, original blue cloth, gilt top, uncut. 
 
 San Francisco, [1907] 
 Remarks of Mark Twain will be found on pp. 144-146. Autographed by 
 the artist, who, at the same time, is also Twain's bibliographer. 
 
 236. Clemens (Samuel L.). To My Guests Greeting and Salutation and 
 Prosperity. And therewith Length of Days. Listen. Broadside on 
 Japanese paper. Square 8vo. (With Japanese paper envelope). 2 
 pieces. Eedding, Conn., 1908 
 
 Characteristic letter of Twain in which he solicits funds for a public 
 library building at Redding, Conn. It is dated October 7, 1908, and a copy 
 of it was given to each of the visitors to the author's home, " Storfleld " 
 in Redding. 
 
 237. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Dinner in Honor of the Honorable Whitelaw 
 
 Eeid, American Ambassador to the Court of Saint James by the 
 
 Pilgrims of the United States, on February 19, 1908. Front cover 
 
 designed ly Tiffany and Go. Square 12mo, original wrappers. 
 
 [New York, 1908] 
 Contains speech by Mark Twain. 
 
 238. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] The Life of Thomas Bailey Aldrich. By Fer- 
 
 ris Greenslet. Portraits, facsimiles, &c. 8vo, original cloth, paper 
 label, uncut. Cambridge : Eiverside Press, 1908 
 
 One of 500 copies on Large Paper. Contains letters from Mark Twain. 
 Autographed by Ferris Greenslet on half-title. 
 
 239. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Another copy, similar. Not autographed. 
 
 240. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Eeminiscences of Senator William M. Stew- 
 
 art of Nevada. Edited by George E. Brown. Portrait. 8vo, orig- 
 inal red cloth, gilt top. New York and Washington, 1908 
 Contains an unusual account of Mark Twain at an early period of his 
 career and of the writing of " Innocents Abroad." 
 
341. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] A Bunch of Lemons. Collected, Condemned 
 and Cussed by A. Phew Lemons. Square 16nio, pictorial cloth. 
 
 New York and Boston [1908] 
 See last page of text for a short anecdote of Mark Twain. 
 
 24:2. Clemlns (Samuel L.). Is Shakespeare Dead? From my Autobiog- 
 raphy. 3 plates. 12mo, original cloth, gilt top, uncut. 
 
 Kew York and London: Harper and Bros., 1909 
 FiKST EDITION witli the misprinting of the word "equipped" on p. GG, 
 corrected in subsequent editions. Inserted is a letter from the publishers 
 promising to make the alteration necessary. 
 
 243. Clemexs (Samuel L.). Is Shakespeare Dead? From .my Autobiog- 
 
 raphy. '2 plates. 12mo, original cloth, gilt top, uncut. 
 
 New York and London : Harper and Bros., 1909 
 
 First English Edition, issued at the same time as the American work, 
 
 and composed of the same sheets with the addition of " Printed in the 
 
 U. S. of America " on copyright page, and a leal of advertisements at 
 
 the end. 
 
 244. Clemej7s (Samuel L.). Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to 
 
 Heaven. By Jtark Twain. Frontispiece hy Albert Levering. 13mo, 
 original cloth. New York and London : Harper and Bros., 1909 
 
 Originally appeared in Harper's Magazine, December, 1907, and January, 
 190S. Autographed by the illustrator. 
 
 245. [Clemexs (Samuel L.).] The Lectures of Bret Harte, Compiled from 
 
 Various Sources. To which is added " The Piracy of Bret Harte's 
 Fables." By Charles M. Kozlay. Portrait and views; and, in addi- 
 tion, 3 characteristic illustrations of the Fables by Merle Johnson. 
 12mo, ooze calf, gilt top, uncut. Brooklyn-New York, 1909 
 
 No. 24 of 100 copies printed, with autograph signature of the author on 
 title-page, and the three " Fable " plates autographed by the illustrator. 
 
 Incorporates an interesting letter by Mark Twain to the editor of the 
 London Spectator, dated Sept. 20, 1S72, referring to John Camden Hotten's 
 unauthorized reprints of the Twain books. 
 
 ^46. [Clemeks (Samuel L.).] Letters and Opinions upon "The Letters of 
 a Japanese Schoolboy. By "Wallace Irwin. Illustrations. 8 pp. 
 8vo, stitched with wire. (In envelope). [New York, 1909] 
 
 Portrait of Mark Twain, and his letter to Collier's Weelchj, reproduced 
 in facsimile, in the course of which he states concerning " Hashimura 
 Togo," — " That boy is the dearest and sweetest and frankest and wisest 
 and funniest and delightfulest and lovablest creation that has been added 
 to our literature for a long time." 
 
 ■24:7. Clemens (Samuel L.). Mark Twain's Speeches. With an Introduc- 
 tion by William Dean Howells. Portrait of Mark Twain. 12mo, 
 original cloth, gilt. 
 
 New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1910 
 Presentation copy from F. A. Nast to Merle Johnson, who supplied some 
 of the material for the volume. With autograph inscription on verso of 
 front cover. 
 
 Contains over one hundred sketches, all First book printing, with the 
 exception of about twenty. 
 
348. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] By Mark Twain. Eeminiscences and 
 
 Criticisms. By W. D. Howells. Portraits and illustrations. ISmo, 
 original cloth, gilt, gilt top. 
 
 New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1910 
 
 FiEST COLLECTED EDITION. These " Reminlscertces " were written after 
 Mr. Clemens' death and published in Harper's Magazine in 1910; the 
 "Criticisms " are collected reviews of Mark Twain's books from magazines 
 of different periods. 
 
 349. [Clemens. (Samuel L.).] Stories of Authors, British and American. 
 
 By Edwin Watts Chubb. Illustrations. 13mo, original cloth. 
 
 New York, 1910 
 
 Contains the " Story of Mark Twain's Debts," a portion of a letter, and 
 some anecdotes. 
 
 350. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Johnson (Merle-Compiler). A Bibliography 
 
 of the Work of Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). A List 
 of I'irst Editions in Book Form and of First Printings in Peri- 
 odicals and Occasional Publications of his Varied Literary Activi- 
 ties. 8vo, original cloth, paper label, gilt top, uncut. 
 
 New York and London : Harper and Bros., 1910 
 
 One of 500 copies printed, each copy signed by the Compiler and the 
 Publishers. 
 
 An admirable work, carefully revised, amplified, and prepared for pub- 
 lication. It offers, perhaps, the only list of Twain's editions known, and, 
 besides, contains a wealth of material other than mere titles, names, &c. 
 
 251. Clemens (Samuel L.). Little Stories about Mark Twain. [Pamphlet 
 of particulars of the New Author's National Edition of Mark Twain's 
 works, issued by Harper and Brothers.] Portrait of Twain and fac- 
 simile signature on front cover. 34mo, original wrappers. 
 
 New York [1910] 
 
 Contains numerous anecdotes of Twain and complimentary notices of his 
 works. 
 Peopekty op Mekle Johnson. 
 
 353. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] Paine (Albert Bigelow). Mark Twain, A 
 Biography. The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne 
 Clemens. With Letters, Comments and Incidental Writings hitherto 
 Unpublished; also New Episodes, Anecdotes, &c. Numerous por- 
 traits and illustrations. 3 vols. 8vo, original cloth, gilt, gilt tops, 
 uncut. New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1913 
 
 PiBST edition and author's presentation copy to Mr. Johnson with the 
 following autograph inscription on fly-leaf,—" Greeting.'^ and good toishes 
 to a friend of Mark Twain from the author of his stoni. Albert Biaelono 
 Paine. Oct. 21, 1912." 
 
 Appendix X. contains a " Chronological List of Mark Twaiu's Work- 
 Published and Otherwise— from 1851-1910 " which is based on the Johnson 
 Bibliography. 
 
 Fine copy of this authoritative work by Mark Twain's own chosen 
 biographer. 
 
Ji53. ClkmivNS (Samuel L.). My Platonic Sweetheart. [Excerpt from 
 Harper's Magazine, Christmas, 1913.] 10pp. 8vo,. loose sheets. 
 
 Relative to this posthumous sketch, Mr. A. B. PCainej has apiiended the 
 foIloAving note, which we quote in part, — " Twain was always interested 
 in those psychic phenomena which we call dreams ... In the story 
 which follows he set down ... a phase of what we call recurrent 
 dreams . . . The time did not come when he was moved to rewrite it; 
 and for the pure enjoyment of it as a delicate fancy it may be our good 
 fortune that he left it unchanged." 
 
 Property of Merle Johnson. 
 
 254. [Clem]!;ns (Samuel L.).] Excerpts from Old and New containing story 
 
 of " John Whopper the Newsboy," said to be by Mark Twain, but 
 not so in the opinion of Mr. Johnson; two dealer's catalogues of auto- 
 graphs; loose sheets, ^:c., relative to Twain. About a dozen pieces, 
 8vo, loose. 
 
 Pkopertv of Merle Johnson. 
 
 255. [Clemens (Samuel L.).] As I Eemember Them. By C. .C. Goodwin. 
 
 [Eecollections and Anecdotes of Prominent People.] Portrait. 8vo, 
 cloth, gilt top. Salt Lake City, 1913 
 
 Contains anecdotes of Twain pp.2.50-260 which, Mr. Johnson claims, 
 iire not altogether accui-ate. 
 
 Property of Merle Johnson. 
 
 25%. Cleaiens (Samuel L.). ilark Twain and The Happy Island. By Eliza- 
 beth Wallace. Numerous illustrations. FiiiST edition. 16mo, dec- 
 orative cloth, uncut. Chicago, 1913 
 
 Mr. A. B. Paine says of this story that " it has a place of its own in 
 Mark Twain literature, in that it presents an Idyllic picture of our 
 philosopher-humorist in the serener days of his later life — a picture of 
 which the author herself was a part." Mr. Johnson remarks, in addition, — 
 " I cannot go beyond Mr. Paihe's note of Introduction, which guarantees 
 the accuracy and importance of the volume. The letters alone make the 
 hook necessary to the Twain collector." Laid in are letters from Mr. 
 Johnson and the publishers relative to the work. 
 
 Property of Merle Johnson. 
 
 357. Clemens (Samuel L.). Yankee Xotions for May, 1865. Illustrations. 
 6pp. royal 8vo, folded. New York, 1865 
 
 Contains Twain's *' Lucretia Smith's Soldier," first published in book 
 form in the " Jumping Frog," 1S67. 
 
 258. Clemens (Samuel L.). The Kew York Saturday Press. Plenry Clapp, 
 
 Jr., Editor. New York, December 23, 1865. 16pp., folio. 
 
 Contains Twain's " The Pioneer Ball" quoted from the Virginia Enter- 
 prise. Included in the " Jumping Frog " volume, 1867, under the caption, 
 " After Jenkins," but here given in part only. 
 
 259. Clemens (S.amuel L.). Excerpt from Harper's Magazine for Decem- 
 
 ber, 1866, containing the sketch, " Forty-three Days in an Open 
 Boat." 16pp. 8vo- loose sheets. 
 
 This is Mark Twain's first maga'-inv article. Its publication is described 
 in " My Debut as a Literary Person," where he says, — " I had not written 
 the ' Mark Twain ' distinctly ; it irt'as a fresh name to Eastern printers, 
 and they put it ' Mike Swain ' or ' Mae Swain,' I do not remember which." 
 Only extracts have been reiirinted, — see same in "Jumping Frog" volume, 
 IsiiT. under title. — " Short and Singular Rations."' 
 
260. Clemens (Samuel L.). Excerpts from the Galaxy ion: February and 
 
 May, 1868, containing the sketches " General Washington's Negro 
 Body-Servant " and " My Late Senatorial Secretaryship." 8pp. 
 8vOj loose sheets. (2 envelopes.) 
 
 The first-named appeared in book form in ttie " $30,000 Bequest," 1906 ; 
 the second in " Sketches" 1875. 
 
 261. Clemens (Samuel L.). Excerpts from the Overland Monthly for July, 
 
 August, September, and October, 1868, containing " By Eail through 
 France," and three extracts from " A Californian Abroad," viz. : " A 
 Pew Parisian Sights," " Three Italian Cities," and " A Mediseval 
 Romance." About 30pp. 8vo, loose sheets. (4 envelopes.) 
 
 With the exception of tlie " Romance," the above appeared later In 
 collected form in " Innocents Abroad," 1869. The " Romance " does not 
 seem to have been identified in this manner. 
 
 262. Clemens (Samuel L.). Excerpts from Packard's Monthly for March, 
 
 July, and August, 1869, containing " Open Letter to Commodore 
 Vanderbilt," " Eulogy on the Eeliable Contraband," and " Personal 
 Habits of the Siamese Twins." 14pp. 8vo, loose sheets. (3 en- 
 velopes.) 
 
 The last-named was included in " Curious Dream," 1872 ; the other two 
 sketches are apparently uncollected. 
 
 There is also " An Open Letter to Mark Twain." By .J. B. criticizing 
 the former's letter to Yanderbilt. 
 
 263. Clemens (Samuel L.). Wood's Household Magazine for October, 1869, 
 
 containing " A Mystery Cleared Up." 8vo, original paper wrappers. 
 
 Newburgh, N, y., 1869 
 Apparently never collected in book form. [Also contains a contribution 
 from Mrs. Harriet B. Stowe.] 
 
 264. Clemens (Samuel L.). Excerpts from the Galaxy Magazine for May 
 
 to -December, 1870 (inclusive)'; and for January, Pebruarj-, April 
 and August, 1871, containing ilark Twain's department; "Memo- 
 randa," of which he was the editor. Portrait, and several illustra- 
 lions. About 118pp. 8vo, loose sheets. (12 envelopes.) 
 
 Includes the first appearances of many sketches and anecdotes, some of 
 \vhich are, apparently, uncollected. The Bibliographer has listed the titles 
 of these on the envelopes herewith, and, where possible, lias located the 
 items in their collected form. 
 
 265. Clemens (Samuel L.). (1) "The Heptasoph," Baltimore Md for 
 
 January, 1874. [S. B. Wolf, ?*I.D.— Editor.] Vol. 1, No. 1, 32pp. 
 12mo, without the original papers; and (2), Excerpts from the 
 Atlantic Monthly, November, 1874. 4pp. 8vo, loose sheets. (2 
 envelopes). 
 
 Includes the sketches d) " Putting Up Stoves," collected in "Laughing 
 Gas, ' published in New York by Ogilvie and Co. later in same year, and 
 (2) "A True Story Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It," first col- 
 lected in " Sketches," 1875. 
 
 266. Clemens (Samuel L.). Excerpts from the Atlantic Monthly for Janu- 
 
 ary, February, March, April, May, June and August. 1875, contain- 
 ing " Old Times on the Mississippi." About 56 sheets, 8vo, loose. 
 (7 envelopes.) 
 
 First Book publication in 1876 issued by Belford Bros., Toronto Canada 
 An unauthorized edition. Legitimately printed in 1883 bv J R Osirood 
 and Co.. Boston, the First authorized collected edition. 
 
367. Clemexs (Samukl L.). Excerpts from the Atlantic Monthly for ^'eb- 
 ruary, Jime and December, 181"G. 18pp. 8vo, loose sheets. (3 en- 
 Telopes.) 
 
 Contains " A Literary Nightmare," " Recent Carnival of Crime in Con- 
 necticut," and tlie " Canvasser's Tale," which were first published in book 
 form in "A True 8tory," ISTT, and "Punch, Brothers, Punch," 187S. 
 
 268. Clemens (Samuel L.). Excerpts from the Atlantic Monthly for Octo- 
 ber, N^ovember and December, 1877, and January, 1878, containing 
 '' Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion." 33pp. 8vo, loose 
 sheets. (4 envelopes.) 
 This was first printed in book form in " Punch, Brothers, Punch," 1S78. 
 
 369. Clemens (Samuel L.). Excerpts from the Atlantic Monthly for March 
 
 and ^lay, 1878 ; February and March, 187it; June, August and Sep- 
 tember, 1880. About -iliGpp. 8vo, loose sheets. (7 envelopes.) 
 
 First px'intings of, — " Tlie Loves of Alonzo Fitz-Clarence and Rosannah 
 Ethelton," " About Magnanimous-Incident Literature," " Recent Great 
 French Duel," " Great Revolution in Pitcairn," " Telephonic Conversation," 
 " Edward Mills and (ieorge Benton," and '■ Mrs. McWilliams and the 
 Lightning." The first book appearances of these are marked by the Biblio- 
 grapher on the envelopes herewith. 
 
 370. Clemens (Sakuel L.). Supplement to the Atlantic Monthly for Feb- 
 
 ruary, 1880, containing full description of " The Holmes Breakfast," 
 given by the publishers of the Atlantic to Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, 
 with original contributions from many literary people, inelnding 
 ilaik Twain. 21pp. 8vo, original magazine wrappers, loose- 
 Twain's speech was first printed in book form in "Brown's Life of 
 Holmes," issued in ISSO. [See No. 114 of this catalogue.] 
 
 371. Clemens (Samuel L.). Excerpts from the Century Magazine, for 
 
 November, 1881; December, 1884; January, February and December, 
 1885; February, 1886; and April, 1887. Numerous illustrations. 
 About 80pp. 8vo, sheets loose. (7 envelopes.) 
 
 First appearances of ,— " A Curious Experience," "An Adventure of 
 Huckleberry Finn," " Jim's Investments, and King Sollermun," *' Royalty 
 on the Mississippi," " The Private History of a Campaign that Failed," 
 " International Copyright " and " English as She is Taught." The Biblio- 
 grapher has given the dates of the first book printings on the envelopes 
 herewith, 
 
 2-73. Clemens (Samuel L.). Excerpts as follows: Century, January, 1888; 
 Princeto')i Review. ISSS; Century, November, 1889; St. Nicholqs. 
 January, February', 1890; Harper's for February. 1890, August and 
 December, 1891- Illustrations. About 70pp. 8vo, loose sheets, (7 
 envelopes.) 
 
 Includes, — " In Three Acts," " American Authors and British Pirates," 
 " Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court." " "Wonderful Pair of Slip- 
 pers," " Majestic Literary Fossil," " Luck " and " Mental Telegraphy." 
 First printings in book form of all but two of these sketches are indicated 
 on envelopes. The " Wonderful Pair of Slippers " and " American Authors 
 and British Pirates " are, as far as known, uncollected. The last noted, 
 which appeared in the Princeton Revi&io is a letter to Brander Matthews 
 and sets forth in breezy and interesting language Twain's views of the 
 English Copyright Laws which he compares to the American, and much 
 to the latter's disadvantage. 
 
273.. CiJSMENS (Samuel L.). Excerpts from the IdUr Magazine (Monthly) 
 from February, 1892, to January, 1893, inclusive (la numbers), 
 containing the complete story, " The American Claimant," issued, 
 probably, some months before the first printing in book form. Illus- 
 trations ly llal. Hurst. About 180pp. 12mo, loose sheets. (12 
 envelopes.) 
 
 The book form of this story was issued some time iu 1872, but exact 
 data concerning same seems to be unobtainable. 
 
 In addition to the Hurst illustrations, contains a tinted portrait of Mark 
 Twain in 1891, smoking a corncob pipe, with his signature in facsimile. 
 
 274. CtEMBNS (Samuel L.). Excerpts from Century, January, 1893; Cos- 
 
 mopolitan, September and November, 1893; and North American 
 Review, April, 1894. Illustrations. 38pp. 8vo, loose sheets. (4 en- 
 velopes.) 
 
 Includes, — " The £1,000,000 Bank-Note," " Is He Living or is He Dead? " 
 " The Esquimau Maiden's Romance " and " Private History of the ' Jump- 
 ing Frog ' Story." Two of these had their first book printing in " Hadley- 
 burg," 1900; one in a volume with the Bank-Note title, 1S9.3. and one in 
 " How to Tell a Story," 1897. 
 
 275. Clemens (Samuel L.). Excerpts from St. Sicliola.'i Magazine for Xo- 
 
 vember and Degember, 1893, and Januarj^, February, March and 
 April, 1894, containing '" Tom Sawyer Abroad." Illustrations. 
 68pp. 8vo, loose sheets. (6 envelopes-) 
 First published as a book in 1894. 
 
 276. Clemens (Samuel L.). Excerpts from the Century Magazine for De- 
 
 cember, 1893, and January to June, inclusive, 1894, containing 
 " Pudd'nhead Wilson." Illustrations. About T8pp. 8vo, loose 
 sheets. (7 envelopes.) 
 
 First published as a book in 1894. 
 
 277. Clemens (Samuel L.). Excerpts from the North American Bevieir, for 
 
 July, August and September, 1894, containing " In Defense of Har- 
 riett Shelley. 44pp. 8vo, loose sheets. (3 envelopes.) 
 Appeared first in book form in " How to Tell a Story," 1897. 
 
 278. Clemens (Samuel L.). Excerpts from North American Revieic, Jan- 
 
 uary and Julj', 1895 ; Chips. March, 1895 ; Harper'^, September, 
 1895; Youth's Companion, October 3, 1895; and Cosmopolitan. De- 
 cember, 1895. Illustrations- About 62pp., 8vo and folio, loose 
 sheets. (6 envelopes.) 
 
 Contain, — " What Paul Bourget thinks of Us," " The Panama Railroad," 
 " Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences," " Mental Telegraphy Again," 
 " How to Tell a Story," and " Travelling with a Reformer." 
 
 The majority of the above were first published in book form in " How 
 to Tell a Story," 1897; "'The Panama Railroad," is included in Will M. 
 Clemen's " Sixty and Six Chips," 1897, but is not found in collected 
 editions. 
 
 279. Clemens (Samuel L.). Excerpts from Harper's Magazine, from x\pril, 
 
 1895, to April, 1896, inclusive, containing "' Personal Eecollections 
 of Joan of Arc." illustrations. About 206pp. 8vo, loose sheets. 
 (13 envelopes.) 
 Appeared first in book form in 1896. 
 
280. Clemens (Samuel Ij.). Excerpts from various magazines from 1896 to 
 
 1898. Illustrations. About ISOpj?. 8vo, loose sheets. (9 envel- 
 opes.) 
 
 Contain, — " Tom Sawyer, Detective," " James Hammond Trumbull," 
 " From India to South Africa," " Stirring Times in Austria," " The 
 Austrian Edison keeping Scliool Again," " At the Appetite Cure," " About 
 I' lay- Acting," and " From the ' London Times ' of 1904." The first book 
 appearances of most of these were in " Hadleyburg," 1900. The " Trum- 
 bull " sketch does not seem to liave been issued in collected form. 
 
 281. C'LEitExs (Sa:muel L.). Excerj^ts from various magazines from ]\larch, 
 
 1899, to December, 1900, inclusive. Illustrations- About 13opp. 
 12rao, 8vo and folio, loose sheets. (8 envelopes.) 
 
 Contain, — " Diplomatic Pay and Clothes," " Concerning the Jews," 
 " Christian Science and the Book of Mrs. Eddy," " The Man that corrupted 
 Hadleyburg," "My Debut as a Literary Person," "My First Lie, &c.," 
 " My Boyhood Dreams," and " Response at Reception of the Society of 
 Authors." With the exception of the last-named, all have appeared In 
 collected form as noted on envelopes. 
 
 282. CLE:irEN« (Samuel L.). Excerpts from variovis magazines from Eebru- 
 
 ary tu December, 1901. Illustralions. About 60pp. 8vo, loose 
 sheets. (6 envelopes.) 
 
 Include, — " To the Person sitting in Darkness," " Extracts from Adam's 
 Diary," " To my Missionary Critics," " Edmund Burlie on Croker and 
 Tammany Hall," " Two Little Tales," and " The Death Disk." Several of 
 these do not seem to have appeared in collected editions. The others are 
 as noted on envelopes. 
 
 383. Clemens (Sa^iuel L.). Excerpts from various magazines, from Janu- 
 
 ary to December, - 1902. Illustrations. About 102pp. 8vo, louse 
 sheets. (7 envelopes.) 
 
 Include, — '• A Double-Barrelied Detective Story," •' The Californian's 
 Tale," "Does the Race of Man Love a Lord?" "A Defence of General 
 Funston," " Was it Heaven or Hell?" and " The Belated Russian Passport." 
 Funston's Defence not reprinted in this country. Collected forms of the 
 others as noted on envelopes. 
 
 384. Clemeks (Samuel L.). Excerpts from various magazines, from Decem- 
 
 ber, 1902, to August, 1904. Illustrations. About 78pp. 8vo, and 
 folio, loose sheets. (9 envelopes.) 
 
 Contain, — " Christian Science," " Mrs. Eddy in Error," " Instructions In 
 Art." " A Dog's Tale," " Italian without a Master," and " Italian with 
 Grammar." All reprinted in collected form, except " Instructions in Art." 
 
 285. Clemens (Samuel L.). Excerpts from Harper's Weekly and various 
 magazines, from December, 1904, to April, 1906. Illustrations. 
 About 46pp- 8vo and folio, loose sheets. (10 envelopes.) 
 
 Contain, — " Saint Joan of Arc," " The 5^0,000 Bequest," " Concerning 
 Copyright," " The Czar's Soliloquy," " From my Unpublished Autobiog- 
 raphy," " Monument to Adam," " John Hay and the Ballads," " A Help- 
 less Situation," "Eve's Diary," and "The Carnegie Spelling Reform." 
 With the exception of four of these sketches, the above have been re- 
 printed as indicated on envelopes. 
 
386. Clemens (Samuel L.). Excerpts from the Harper Periodicals, from 
 
 May, 1906, to Febniary, 1910. Illustrations. About 90pp. 8vo and 
 folio, loose sheets. "(12 enyelopes.) 
 
 Include, — " Carl Schurz, Pilot," " William Dean Howells," " A Horse's 
 Tale," "Hunting the Deceitful Turkey," "A Moral Purpose," "Captain 
 Stormfield's Visit to Heaven," " The New Planet," " A Capable Humorist," 
 " Marjorie Fleming," and " The Turning Points of my Life." 
 
 With the exceptions of " Horse's Tale," and " Stormfield's Visit," these 
 sketches have not been reprinted. 
 
 387. Clemens (Samuel L.). Excerpts from the North American Review 
 
 from September, 1906, to December, 1907, inclusive, containing 
 " Chapters from my Axitobiography." About 300pp. 8vo, loose 
 sheets. (25 envelopes.) 
 
 The first and only appearance of the complete twenty-five chapters of 
 this " Autobiography," never reprinted. Fine for rebinding. 
 
 288. Clemens (Samuel L.). Speeches. A Collection of nearly 100 Ex- 
 cerpts and Clippings, being reports of Speeches, Addresses, Remarks, 
 &c., by Mark Twain, dating from 1873 to 1909. In envelopes. 
 
 This is the collection gathered by Mr. Johnson and from which most of 
 the material was supplied for the volume of Speeches issued in 1910, 
 edited by F. A. Nast. 
 
 389. Clemens (Samuel L.). Interviews. Collection of alwut 75 Excerpts 
 
 and Clippings, being accounts of Interviews with Mark Twain. Prom 
 1893 to 1910. In envelopes. 
 
 Many of these contain comments and remarks by JI;irk Twain himself. 
 
 390. Clemens (Samuel L.). Letters. A Collection of about 75 Excerpts 
 
 and Clippings containing Letters of Mark TAA'ain. itiunted mostly 
 on small 4to sheets of paper. Various dates. 
 
 Includes letters printed in type, a number in facsimile, together with a 
 parcel of auctioneers' and dealers' catnlogue-clippings, containing descrip- 
 tions of letters or inscriptions. 
 
 291. Clemens (Samuel L.). Anecdotes. Eour envelopes containing anec- 
 
 dotes of Mark Twain by' various writers. 3Iaiiy mounted on small 
 4to sheets of paper. 
 An extensive collection. 
 
 292. Clemens (Samuel L.). Catalogues of Book- Auction houses, Book Deal- 
 
 ers, and others containing references to the fl'orks of Mark Twain, in- 
 cluding the Buckler and Powers Collections, the Dodd and Livingston 
 Bibliographical catalogue, &c. Together, 14 pieces. 8vo, wrapnors, 
 
 V.p.v.d. 
 
 293. Clemens (Samuel L.). Various Works containing Selections by Mark 
 
 Twain and others, including Twain's " Letter to California Pio- 
 neers " and " Adventures of Tom Sawyer," Toronto, 1878. Together, 
 6 pieces, various sizes and bindings. V.p.v.d. 
 
 294. Clemens (Samuel L.). Numerous Newspaper Clippings, Cards, &c., 
 
 relative to Mark Twain. About 150 pieces. Interesting collection. 
 
THE WRITINGS OF LAFCADIO HEARN 
 
 ;^95. Heaen (Lafcadio). One of Cleopatra's Nights, and other Fantastic 
 Romances. By Theophile Gautier. Faithfully translated by Lafcadio 
 Hearn. Portrait of Hearn. Svo, original red cloth, somewhat worn. 
 
 New York, 1S83 
 The genuine fibst edition of the teakslatok's first wobk of high 
 
 ASSOCIATION interest BEING HeaRn'S OWN COPl', WITH HIS STAMP ON FLY- 
 LEAF, AND THE COPY PEESENTED l!i" HIM TO MiSS Annie FiELDS AlDBN, 
 
 daughter of the late editor of Harper's Magazine. An autograph note of 
 one page 12mo, by Miss Alden, which accompanies the copy, reads as 
 follows : " This copy of One of Cleopatra's Nights, was the property of 
 Ijafcadio Hearn. He gave it to me while visiting my father, Henry Mills 
 Alden" (signed) "Annie Fields Alden." 
 
 Miss Alden has written in her autograph a poem entitled " Egypt," of 
 fourteen lines, commencing : " Fantastic sleep is busy with my eyes," 
 and in addition has drawn a clever pencil sketch entitled " The Serpent 
 of the Nile" opposite page (I.). 
 
 At pages 4, 14, IS, 54, 120, V21. 189, 174 and 235 are coeeections 
 THOUGHT TO BE IN THE AUTOGEApH OF Hearn. A letter Signed by F. A. 
 Nast to Merle Johnson, which also accompanies the copy, reads: 
 " . . Mr. Alden lias seen the book and he states that the poem is 
 
 in the handwriting of his daughter Annie. The picture he does not know 
 anything about, but the cokeections in the text he belie\'es were hadb 
 BY Me. Heabn," etc. 
 
 It is not generally known that there were three different types used in 
 the lettering of the publisher's name, " R. Worthington," the above and 
 the two following lots comprise them all, which are caps, small caps, and 
 caps and lower case. 
 
 296. Heaek (Lafcadio). Another copy of the genuine first edition of 
 
 the above, without its" association features, somewhat soiled, and 
 needs resewing. 8vo, original cloth. 
 
 297. Heahn (Lafcadio). Another copy of the genuine first edition, in 
 
 the original cloth, and a very fine copy. 
 
 298. Heaen (XjAecadi6). Stray Leaves from Strange Literature. Stories 
 
 reconstructed from the Anvari-Soheili, Baital, Fachisi, Mahabharata, 
 Pantchatantra, Gulistan, Talmud, Kalewala, etc. First edition. 
 12mo, original olive-green cloth. Boston, 1884 
 
 A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOE, although there Is uo inscription. 
 An autograph inscription by Mr. .Tohnson reads : " Presentation (without 
 inscription) from Hearn to a friend. I can personally certify to this. 
 Merle Johnson." 
 
 Its acceptance for publication by Osgood, after refusals from others, 
 caused Hearn to write to his friend Krehbell a letter, ending " . 
 Congratulate your little Dreamer of >ronstrous Dreams." 
 
 299. Heaun (Lafcadio). Stray Leaves from Strange Literature. Stories 
 
 reconstructed from the Anvari-Soheili, Baital, Fachisi, Mahabharata. 
 Pantchatantra, Gulistan, Talmud, Kalewala, etc. First edition. 
 12mo, original brown cloth. Former owner's name on title, attempted 
 erasure of same liaving cau.sed two small holes. Boston, 1884 
 
 306. Hearn (Lafcadio). Stray Leaves from Strange Literature. First 
 EDITION'. 12mo, original light blue cloth, several pages loose. 
 
 Boston, 1884 
 
301. Heakx (Lafcadio — and others). Historical Sketch Book and Guide to 
 
 Xew Orleans and its Environs. Illustrations. ISmo, wrappers, as 
 usual with a paster on the front. New York, 1885 
 
 There are at least three issues of what is generally called the first 
 edition of this work, which is the first it has not been determined. This 
 copy, however, is believed to be the flrst issue, in that it has the small 
 folio " Map of the City of New Orleans," published by Staub, news- 
 dealer. Hearn's name comes at the end of the fifth line of " Introduction," 
 and is omitted from the foot of page 299. 
 
 It contains original accounts of the traditions, historical legends and 
 remarkable localities of the Creole city, contributed by Hearn [who it is 
 thought edited the volume]. Judge Alexander Walker, and others. 
 
 302. Heaes (Lafcadio — and others). Another copy of the same work, in 
 
 similar condition as above, with Hearn's name at end of the fifth line 
 of " Introduction " page, and with the addition of his name — "Laf- 
 cadio Heam in the Century," at foot of page ^yj. Copy somewhat 
 worn. 
 
 303. Heaen (Lafcadio — and others). Another copy of the same work, in 
 
 original blue cloth, with the large folio " The World's Industrial and 
 Cotton Centennial Exposition " map of New Orleans, which is several 
 times larger than the map in the first copy of the work described. 
 Hearn's name is on the sixth line of " Introduction " page, and the 
 words " Alexander and his sons " have been added to the page, and 
 his name is printed at foot of page '299, as in the preceding copy. 
 Stamp on a fly-leaf. 
 
 304. Heahn (Lafcadio — and others). Another copy of the same work, in 
 
 original brown cloth, with the large folio " Exposition " map, as de- 
 scribed in the preceding, but in original black cloth lettered covers, 
 the word " Eights " in sentence " All Eights Eeserved " on reverse 
 of title perfect, in the preceding copy, and in the following copy they 
 are imperfect. Hearn's name at end of fifth line of " Introduction " 
 page, his name at foot of page 299, and an entirely different setting 
 of the " Index " from that of the preceding and followdng copy. 
 
 305. Heaex (Lafcadio — and others). Another copy of the same work, in 
 
 original brown cloth. Hearn's name on the sixth line of the " Intro- 
 duction " page, the words " Alexander and his sons '' added to the 
 page. Hearn's name at foot of page 299, and the same setting of the 
 " Index " as that of the cojjv in blue cloth. 
 
 .106. Heakn (Lafcadio). "Gombo Zhebes." Little Dictionary of Creole 
 Proverbs, selected from six Creole Dialects. Translated into French 
 and into English, with Notes, complete Index to subjects, and some 
 brief remarks upon the Creole idioms of Louisiana. First edition 
 8vo, original blue cloth. ^.Tg^^. York, 1885 
 
 307. Hearn (Lafcadio). "Gombo Zhebes." Little Dictionary of Creole 
 Proverbs, selected from six Creole Dialects. Translated mto French 
 and into English, with Notes, complete Index to subjects, and some 
 brief remarks upon the Creole idioms of Louisiana. First edition 
 8vo, original olive cloth. Xew York 188.5 
 
308. Hearn (Lafcadio). " Gombo Zhebes." Little Dictionary of Creole 
 
 Proverbs, selected from six Creole Dialects. First edition. 8vo, 
 original brown cloth, cover slightly soiled. New York, 1885 
 
 309. Hearn (Lafoadio). La, Cuisine Creole. A Collection of Culinary Reci- 
 
 pes from leading chefs and noted Creole housewives, who have made 
 New Orleans famous for its cuisine. First edition. Square 13mo, 
 original greenish-brown cloth. New York: Will H. Coleman [1885] 
 
 It is not generally known that there are two issues of the fihst edition 
 of this rare work, which is the first, and which is the second has not been 
 determined. The above copy, however, is thought to be the first issue, 
 for the reason that the word " Briilot " in the Introduction is printed 
 "Braiot," whereas in both copies following it is printed " Briilot." 
 
 Also the " Introduction " in this issue occupies one and one half pages, 
 whereas in both of the other copies it has been entirely reset, and 
 occupies one page. 
 
 It was issued anonymously, and until comparatively recent times was 
 not known as a Hearn item. Coleman . and Hearn were friends, their 
 acquaintance having begun in the former's bookshop in the Old Astor 
 House at a time when the author was doing journalistic work in New 
 York in the early eighties. 
 
 310. Hearn (Lafoadio). Another copy of the same work. First edition. 
 
 Square 12mo, original brown cloth. 
 
 New York: Will H. Coleman [1885] 
 
 The text of the two-page Introduction of the preceding copy is printed 
 on one page in this copy, and " Briilot " is correctly printed. 
 
 311. Hearn (Lafoadio). Another copy of the same work. First edition. 
 
 Square ISmo^ original light green cloth. 
 
 New York: WiU H. Coleman [1885] 
 The same as the preceding with the exception of color of cloth. 
 
 312. Heakn (Lafoadio). Some Chinese Ghosts. First edition. 12mo, 
 
 original old-rose cloth, red top. Boston, 1887 
 
 An autograph note on the fly-leaf by Mr. Merle Johnson reads : " Pre- 
 sumably only about 100 copies of this work are extant outside of libraries, 
 public & semi-public. Most of the issue was destroyed as the result of 
 a publisher-author disagreement." 
 
 The work contains notes and an extensive glossary. It " . . . holds 
 the distinctive flavor of Hearn's genius. His own soul is written into 
 the legend of ' Pu the potter.' " 
 
 313. Hearn (Lafoadio). Some Chinese Ghosts. First edition. 12mo, 
 
 original yellow cloth, red top. Boston, 1887 
 
 Like the preceding, it contains notes and an extensive glossary. 
 
 3l4r. Heakn (Lafoadio). Chita; A Memory of Last Island. First edition. 
 ISmc, original cloth. New York, 1889 
 
 An autograph note by Mr. Merle Johnson reads : " This copy was the 
 property of J. Abner Harper." 
 
 This is Hearn's flrst work of fiction, and although " . . .it lacks 
 construction " . . . " every now and then memories of his childhood 
 fall across its pages, illuminating them as with sudden light." 
 
315. HEAEisr (Lafcadio). The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (Member of the 
 
 Institute) . By, Anatole France. The Translation and Introduction 
 by Laf eadio Hearn. First edition. 8vo, original brown cloth, paper 
 label, gilt top, uncut. New York, 1890 
 
 From the Edmund C. Stedman collection, with bookplate. Various state- 
 ments have been made as to the number of copies of this work — the gen- 
 erally accepted first issue of the first edition — issued in cloth covers and 
 uncut. Some have said six, some eight, but it is now thought that the 
 number is nearer twenty. It differs from the following lots, in that It is 
 uncut. 
 
 Just how many issues of the pibst edition there are, and which is 
 actually the first, is a matter of opinion, although as stated above the 
 cloth issue is generally considered the first. The above and the three 
 following lots are all published by Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, 
 and dated 1890, the known differences being noted In each case. The cloth 
 issue is considered to be on large paper. 
 
 316. Heaen" (Lafcadio). Another copy of the same work. 8vo, unbound, 
 
 with brown paper covers. New York, 1890 
 
 A manuscript note by Mr. Merle Johnson — to whom this copy belongs — 
 reads, " Possibly a publisher's copy. The peculiarity of this copy is that 
 the Introduction is printed on the same paper as the large paper' issue, 
 while the balance of the book is the cheaper Franklin Square variety." 
 
 317. Heaei^t (Lafcadio). Another copy of the same work. 8vo, original blue 
 
 wrappers. New York, 1890 
 
 Presumably the first issue in wrappers, as the paper is different from 
 that of the copies above described, and the ornament on title-page is 
 much clearer than that of the following copy. 
 
 318. Hearn (Lafcadio). Another copy of the same work. 8vo, original blue 
 
 wrappers. New York, 1890 
 
 Presumably the second issue in wrappers, as the paper is of poorer 
 quality, and the ornament on title-page is somewhat worn. 
 
 319. Hearn (Lafcadio). Two Years in the French West Indies. Illus- 
 
 trated. First edition. 12mo, origiaal olive green cloth. 
 
 New York, 1890 
 
 The Appendix, pp. [424] -431 is devoted to " Some Creole Melodies," both 
 words and music. 
 
 320. Hearn (Lafcadio). Youma. The Story of a West-Indian Slave. 
 
 With frontispiece [by Howard PyW]. First edition. 12mo, orig- 
 inal blue and white Japanese cloth, paper labels, fore and under 
 edges uncut. iq-gw York, 1890 
 
 Attached to the frontispiece is the signature of Howard Pyle. A manu- 
 script note by Mr. Merle Johnson reads : " This calico cloth cover was 
 used in 5 similar designs. The trimmed copies coming later, and bound 
 in solid color cloth, also later." 
 
 321. Hearn (Lafcadio). Youma. The Story of a West-Indian Slave. 
 
 Frontispiece [by Howard Pyle']. First edition. 12mo, original 
 blue cloth, paper labels, cut edges. New York, 1890 
 
 From the Alfred Owre collection, with bookplate. 
 
322. Hearn" (Lafcadio). Youma. The Story of a "VVest-Iudiaii Slave, With 
 
 frontispiece [iy Howard Pyle'\. First edition. 13mOj original 
 blue and brown Japanese clotb, paper labels, fore and lower edges 
 nncut. Kew York, 1890 
 
 Autograph of Edward G. Clapham, Ju]y, 1905, on fly-leaf. 
 
 323. Heakn (Lapcadio). Youma. The Story of a West-Indian Slave. 
 
 Frontispiece [&2/ Howa/rd Pylel. First edition. 12mo, original 
 red clothj title in gold on back, cut edges. New York, 1890 
 
 324. Heaex (Lafcadio). Exotics and Retrospectives. Numerous illusti-a- 
 
 tions. First edition. 12mo, original cloth, gilt, gilt top, uncut. 
 
 Boston, 1898 
 
 " The fli'st essay, describing his ascent of Fujl-no-yama, is as beautiful 
 
 a piece of impressionist prose as Hearn ever wrote." — Nina H. Kennard. 
 
 335. Hearn (Lafcadio). Japanese Fairy Tales: 
 
 (1) The Boy who drew Cats. 
 
 (2) The Goblin Spider. 
 
 (3) The Old Woman who Lost her DumpUngs. 
 
 (4) Chin Chin Kobakama. 
 
 Printed on Japanese plain paper, with numerous fine illustra- 
 tions hy Japanese artists^, in colors. 4 vols., 3 of which are large 8vo. 
 and the other small 8vo, original plain colored wrappers, tied with 
 silk, Japanese style. Tokyo: T. Hasegawa, [1898-1903] 
 
 The excessively bare large paper edition, printed on plain paper, and 
 
 WITH PLAIN covers, THE EXISTENCE OF WHICH IS PBACTICALLY UNKNOWN. 
 
 It is not generally known either that there are foue issues of this 
 pretty series of fairy stories ; such, however, is the case. This large paper 
 
 set — THE FIRST TO MAKE ITS APPEARANCE FOB SALE IN THE AUCTION ROOMS 
 
 is the property of Mr. Merle Johnson, and is accompanied by a two-page 
 autograph letter of Kazuo Koizumi, the son of Lafcadio Heabn, written 
 at Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 31, 1933, to the owner, and which reads in part as 
 follows : 
 
 " . . . Your kind letter of 29th of Dec. last duly reached me. My 
 father wrote four books of the ' Japanese Fairy Tales.' Theye were pub- 
 lished in the order as follows." [then follows order with dates of publica- 
 tion]. " . . . Two editions were made. One on plain paper, &. at 
 the same time of [the] larger edition. The other on crape [crepe] paper 
 . & of smaller edition. . . . My father was fond of that larger edition 
 on the plain paper as it was seen in his letter to Hasegawa the publisher. 
 But in spite of my father's taste, that edition has been out of print for a 
 very long time, and cannot be got in Tokyo. I hereby send you those 
 two sets, the larger ones are those that were sent us by the publisher 
 when they were first issued," etc. 
 
 The editions are therefore as follows : 
 
 (1) The large paper set, as above, on plain paper. 
 
 (2) The same on small paper. 
 
 (3-4) Issues of the crepe paper edition, as described below. 
 
 336. Heaen (Lafcadio). Japanese Fairy Tales. Printed on Japanese crepe 
 
 paper, with numerous fine illustrations hy Japanese artists, in colors. ■ 
 4 vols, ISmo. and 16mo., original crepe paper wrappers, tied with 
 silk, Japanese style. 
 
 Of this issue [on crepe paper], which is the first, and which is the 
 second it has not been possible to determine. It is thought, however, that 
 the above is the first. The inside of back cover of " The Boy who Drew 
 
Cats " merely co^tains a vase with floral ornamentation, whereas in the 
 following lot it contains "List of Books on Orepe paper, with Illustra- 
 tions," etc. In "The Goblin Spider" the inside of back cover contains a 
 list of " Japanese Fairy Tale Series," set up in a difEerent manner from 
 that of the following. In the last mentioned the two final pages are 
 transposed in this copy, reading on the final page " Her husband scolded 
 her," whereas in the following copy the pages are correctly printed. There 
 are other differences, but these presented will suffice to prove the issues. 
 
 327. Heaen^ (Lafcadio). Japanese Fairy Tales. Another_set, 4 vols., 13ino 
 and 16nio, original crepe paper wrappers, tied with silk, Japanese 
 style. 
 
 338. Heakn (Lafcadio). Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan. Fiest Editiok. 
 2 vols. 12mo, original black cloth, silver lettering, gilt tops, uncut. 
 
 Boston, 1894 
 
 From the library of the late John La Farge, with his autograph in both 
 volumes. It is thought that of this black cloth edition, there were issued 
 but two hundred and fifty copies. 
 
 Miss Nina H. Kennard in writing of this work says : " . . . Amidst 
 the turmoil, the rush, the struggle of our monster City of the West, if 
 you open his GUmpses of Unfamiliar Japan, and read his description of 
 his first visit to a Buddhist temple, you will find the silence of centuries 
 descending upon your soul . . . you will see the priests sliding back 
 screen after screen, pouring in light on the gilded bronzes and inscrip- 
 tions," etc. 
 
 329. Heaen (Lafcadio). Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan. Fikst Edition. 
 
 2 vols. 12mo, original green cloth, silver lettering, gilt tops, uncut. 
 
 Boston, 1894 
 Of this green cloth issue, there were printed one thousand copies. 
 
 330. Heaen (Lafcadio). Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, vol. 
 
 XXII., part III., 8vo, original wrappers, uncut. 
 
 Yokohama, Dec. 1894 
 
 Contains the first appearance of " Three Popular Ballads," by Hearn. 
 The property of Mr. Merle Johnson. 
 
 331. Heaek (Lafcadio). " Out of the East." Eeveries and Studies in New 
 
 Japan. Piest Edition. 12mo, original yellow cloth, silver letter- 
 ing, yellow top, edges scraped. Boston, 1895 
 
 One of the few copies printed on thick paper, and similar to the one 
 in the Library of Congress. 
 
 332. Heaen (Lafcadio). " Out of the East." Eeveries and Studies in New 
 
 Japan. Fiest Edition. 12mo, original yellow cloth, silver letter- 
 ing, yellow top, edges scraped. Boston, 1895 
 The ordinary edition. 
 
 333. Heaen (Lafcadio). Kokoro. Hints and Echoes of Japanese inner Life. 
 
 Portrait vignette on title. Fiest Edition. 12mo, original olive 
 green cloth, gilt top. Boston, 1896 
 
 Called by the author a " crazy " book. " The papers composing the 
 volume . . . treat of the inner rather than of the outer life of Japan, 
 — for which reason they have been grouped under the title of ' Kokoro ' 
 (Heart)." 
 
334., Heaen (Latcadio). Kokoro. Hints and Echoes of Japanese inner Life. 
 Portrait vignette on title. Piest edition. 13mo, original olive 
 green cloth, gilt top. Lacks the leaf of adTertisement at front, and 
 2 pages loose. 'Boston, 1896 
 
 335. Heaen (Lafoadio). Gleanings in Buddha-Melds. Studies of Hand 
 
 and Soul in the Far East. Fiest edition. 13mo, orginal cloth, 
 gilt top. Boston, 1897 
 
 On inside of front cover is a copy of Hearn's address card, lettered 
 [in Japanese], " Yakumo Koizumi [Lafcadio Hearn], 265 W. Okubo, 
 Toyotama Co. Tokyo Proy." 
 
 " Gleanings in Buddha-Fields " was the first work published after the 
 author's appointment as Professor of English at the University of Xokio. 
 
 336. Heaen (Lafcadio). Clarimonde. Translated from the French of Gau- 
 
 tier by Lafcadio Hearn. 16nio, original cloth, gilt top, uncut. 
 
 New York, 1899 
 Autographed by Mr. Arthur Brentano, the publisher on title-page. With 
 MS. comments by Mr. Merle Johnson. 
 
 337. Heaen- (Lafcadio). In Ghostly Japan. Illustrated. Eibst edition. 
 
 ISmo, original cloth, gilt top, uncut. Boston, 1899 
 
 The frontispiece by Hearn, entitled, "The Mountain of Skulls," is prob- 
 ably one of his most remarkable productions. 
 
 '338. Heaen (Lafcadio). Shadowings. Illustrated. Fiest edition. ISmo, 
 
 original cloth, gilt top, uncut. Boston, 1900 
 
 Includes Stories from Strange Books, Old Japanese Songs, Japanese 
 
 female Names, etc. " Some of the fantasies at the end are full of his 
 
 peculiar ghostly ideas." — ^Nina H. Kennard. 
 
 339. Heaen (Lafcadio). A Japanese Miscellany. Illustrated. Fiest edi- 
 
 tion. 13mo, original cloth, gilt top, uncut. Boston, 1901 
 
 340. Heaen (Lafcadio). Kotto, being Japanese Curios, with sundry Cob- 
 
 webs. Illustrated iy Genjiro Yeto. First edition. ISmo, original 
 cloth, gilt top, unciit. New York, 1902 
 
 341. Heaen (Lafcadio). Original autogbaph manusoeipt of "The 
 
 Stoey of Mimi-Nashi-Hoichi," beautifully written on 48- 
 
 12M0 PAGES, including TITLE, WITH FULL SIGNATUEE IN TWO 
 PLACES, VIZ., ON TITLE AND LAST PAGE. 
 
 The Manuscript is bound in figured brown silk, with silk ties, Jap- 
 anese style, and is enclosed within a 12mo cloth folding case, fastened 
 with bone staples. Accompanying Manuscript is a copy of the Atlan- 
 tic Monthly for August, 1903, in which Hearn's story first appeared, 
 reprinted in 1904 in "Kwaidan:' Stories and Studies of Strange 
 Things. [See Nos. 342, 343, and 344 of this catalogue.] 
 
 Manuscript is dated " Tohyo, Japan, June 5, 190B." 
 
 Scarce awd beauttfui. manuscript. The original autograph sheets of 
 Hearn's writings appear comparatively seldom in the auction room, and 
 then are not of the unusual length and interest of this MS., which is 
 estimated by many to be one of Hearn's most exquisite translations in 
 which he, with marvelous Insight and sympathy, interprets in Occidental 
 terms the elusive quality of the Japanese tongue. 
 
 It is a wonderful story that he here translates, and it tells of a species 
 of Japanese Homer, Hoicbi, by name, who recites the legends of his 
 
country accompanying himself upon the biwa, or four-stringed lute,— 
 tells of how he was mysteriously commanded to recite before a samurai 
 the story of the " fight on the bitter sea," during which recital Hoichi is 
 deseribed as " wonderfully making his hiica to sound like the straining 
 of oars and the rushing of ships, the whirr and hissing of arrows, the 
 shouting and trampling of men, the crashing of steel upon helmets, the 
 plunging of the slain in the flood," — tells, also, how Hoichi was found 
 out by the priests of the temple, how he was made to do penance, how 
 his ears were torn from his head by one of the ancient Heikg spirits that 
 haunted the coast, &c. 
 
 But let Hearn conclude : — 
 
 " At that instant Hoichi felt his ears gripped by fingers of iron, and 
 torn off. Great as the pain, he gave no cry. The heavy footfalls receded 
 along the verandah, — descended into the garden, — passed out to the road- 
 way, — ceased. From either side of his head, the bUnd man felt a thick 
 warm trickling ; but he dared not lift his hands . . . Before sunrise 
 the priest came back . . . and perceived Hoichi sitting in an attitude 
 of meditation — with the blood still oozing from his wounds. ' My poor 
 Hoichi,' cried the startled priest, — 'what is this? You have been hurt?' 
 At the sound of his friend's voice, the blind man felt safe. He burst out 
 sobbing and tearfully told his adventure of the night. ' Poor Hoichi,' 
 the priest exclaimed, — ' all my fault — ^my very grievous fault. Everywhere 
 upon your body the holy texts had been written — except upon your 
 ears . . . Well, the matter cannot now be helped;— we can only try 
 to heal your hurts as soon as possible. Cheer up, — the danger is now 
 well over. You will never again be troubled by those visitors.' " 
 
 Property of Merle Johnson. 
 
 343. Heaen (Lafcadio). Japan: An Attempt' at Interpretation. Frontis- 
 piece in colors. Fiest edition. ISmo, original cloth. 
 
 New York, 1904 
 " This volume is . . . the crystallization and summary of his four- 
 teen years' residence in the country [of Japan]." — Kennard. 
 
 343. Heaen- (Lapoadio). Kwaidan; Stories and Studies of Strange Things. 
 
 Illustrated. Tiest edition. 12nio, original black cloth, gilt top. 
 
 Boston, 1904 
 
 344. Heaen (Laecadio). Kwaidan; Stories and Studies of Strange Things. 
 
 Illustrated. Fiest edition. 13mo, original light brown cloth, gilt 
 top. Boston, 1904 
 
 345. Heaen (Laecadio). Kwaidan; Stories and Studies of Strange Things. 
 
 Illustrated. First edition. 12mo, original cloth, gilt top. 
 
 Boston, 1904 
 With bookplate of Alfred Owre. 
 
 346. Heaen (Laecadio). Transactions of the Japan Society, London. Vol- 
 
 ume VI. complete, 4 parts, which includes frontispiece, title-page, 
 etc. 8vo, orginal wrappers, one of which is slightly worn. 
 
 London, 1904 
 
 Contains the first appearance of " The Nun Ryonen " ; Fragments of a 
 Japanese Biography, by Lafcadio Hearn. Also "A Woman's Tragedy," 
 by the late Professor Lafcadio Hearn, printed from the original manu- 
 script, but incorporated with " Kotto " before it made its appearance here. 
 
 The property of Mr. Merle Johnson. 
 
 347. Heaen (Lafcadio). The Romance of the ^Milky Way, Fiest edition. 
 
 13mo, original cloth, yellow top, uncut. " ' Boston, 1905 
 
 " . . . the last product of his industrious pen." — Kennard. 
 
348. Heaen (Lafcadio). Gould (George M.). Biographic . Clinics, Tolume 
 
 IV. [Lafcadio Hearn, pp. 309-237]. FiBST edition". 12mo, orig- 
 inal clotli, gilt top, uncut. Philadelphia, 1906 
 
 A MS. note by Mr. Merle Johnson reads : " Hearn, 209-237. This pre- 
 cedes Dr. Gould's ' Concerning Lafcadio Hearn ' by two years. Letter 
 p. 230." 
 
 349. Heakn (Lafcadio). The Life and Letters ot Lafcadio Hearn. By Eliz- 
 
 abeth Bisland. With illustrations. First editios. 3 vols. 8to, 
 original cloth, paper labels, uncut. 
 
 Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1906 
 
 One of two hundbed copies, with a page of oeiginai, irANUscBipT by 
 Lafcadio Hearn, bound in. Both volumes are autographed by the author, 
 " Elizabeth Bisland Wetmore, Dec. 11, 1912." 
 
 350. Hearn" (Lafcadio). Tlie Japanese Letters of "Lafcadio Hearn. Edited 
 
 with an Introduction by Elizabeth Bisland. With illustrations. 
 FiEST EDITIOK. 8vo, original cloth, paper label, uncut. 
 
 Boston, 1910 
 
 One of two hundbed copies. Autographed by the author, " Elizabeth 
 Bisland Wetmore, Dec. 11, 1912." 
 
 351. Heaek (Lafcadio). Letters from The Eaven; Being Correspondence 
 
 of Lafcadio Hearn, with Henry Watkin. Facsimiles. First edi- 
 tion. 12mo, original cloth., gilt top, uncut. New York, 1907 
 
 With inscription by the publisher which reads : " First and only print- 
 ing. Arthur Brentano." 
 
 353. Hearn (Lafcadio). Concerning Lafcadio Hearn. By George M. Gould. 
 With a bibliography by Laura Stedman. Portraits^ etc. First edi- 
 tion. . ISmo, original half cloth and boards, gilt top, uncut. 
 
 Philadelphia, [1908] 
 
 Laid in is an autograph letter, signed, from the author, also prospectus 
 p.4. 
 
 353. HUARN (Lafcadio). Lafcadio Hearn in Japan. By Yone Noguchi. 
 
 With Mrs. Lafcadio Heam's Beminiscences. Frontispiece by Shoshu 
 Saito, with sketches by Genjiro Eataoka and Mr. Hearn himself. 
 First edition. 13mo, limp cloth, sewn Japanese style, with cover. 
 
 Yokohama and London, 1910 
 
 354. [Hearn (Lafcadio).] Autograph letter, signed, one page 12mo, Dec. 
 
 7th, no year of Yone Noguchi, author of " Lafcadio Hearn in Japan." 
 To Madison Cawein, with addressed envelope. 
 
 It reads, " Dear Madison Cawein : 
 Did'nt I promise you with a copy of my book? I have never been 
 about it. Here it is — one published in Japan. It is poor, my London book. 
 There are quite many a misprint, just to remind you it was published in 
 the Orient. Write me how you liked this book. I shall value your opinion 
 ver.v much. Yours, Tone Noguchi." 
 
 The property of Mr. Merle Johnson. 
 
355. HEAEif (Lafcadio — translator). The Temptation of St. Anthony. By 
 
 Gustave Plaubert. Translated hy Lafcadio Hearn. Piest edition. 
 13mo, original cloth. New York, 1910 
 
 With autograph Inscription by the publisher on fly-leaf, reading : "I 
 omitted the original French, which was somewhat strong, for English taste, 
 after consulting with the literary executor of Hearh — Mrs. Wetmore. in 
 the second edition, however, we decided to include the hitherto omitted 
 material. Alice Harriman." 
 
 356. Heaen (Lafcadio — translator). The Temptation of St. Anthony. By 
 
 Gustave Maubert. Translated by. Lafcadio Hearn. Second edi- 
 TiONj with Addenda. 12mo, original cloth. New York, 1911 
 
 With autograph inscription by the publisher, reading : " This edition 
 was put out, not only because the first edition was exhausted, but because 
 I felt that the original French which Hearn had relegated to addenda 
 should be included in the second edition. Alice Harriman." 
 
 357. Heaen (Lafcadio). Leaves from the Diary of an Impressionist. Early 
 
 Writings of Lafcadio Hearn. With an Litroduction by Ferris 
 Greenslet. 13mo, cloth back and boards, uncut. 
 
 Boston : The Eiverside Press,1911 
 One of five hundred and seventy-five numbered copies printed. Auto- 
 graphed by Ferris Greenslet. 
 
 358. Heaen (Lafcadio). [Sketch of his Life, etc.]. By Edward Thomas. 
 
 Portrait. 13mo, cloth. London, 1913 
 
 Laid In is an autograph letter, signed, one page 8vo, from the author 
 to Mr. Merle Johnson, regarding Hearn's writings. 
 
 359. Heaen (Lafcadio). [Sketch of his Life and Writings, etc.] By Nina 
 
 H. Kennard. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth. London, 1912 
 
 Laid in is a type-written letter, signed by the author, regarding the 
 book, etc. 
 
 360. Heaen (Lafcadio). Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, May, 1890, con- 
 
 taining Karma by Lafcadio Hearn, and A Sappho of Green Springs 
 by Bret Harte. 8vo, wrappers, as issued. Stamp on front cover. 
 
 Philadelphia, 1890 
 The contribution by Hearn has never been reprinted. 
 
 361. Heaen (Lafcadio). A collection of magazine excerpts of the writings 
 
 of Lafcadio Hearn. Together, 25 pieces, all in separate envelopes, 
 each lettered. Also a catalogue containing Hearn letters. 
 
 Various places, various dates 
 
 Includes Notes of a Trip to Izumo,— The Story of Mini-Nashi Hoichi,— 
 A Living God, — Dust, — About Faces in Japanese Art, — A Trip to Kyoto, 
 —China and the Western World, and others. 
 
 The property of Mr. Merle Johnson. 
 
 362. Heaen (Lafcadio). An extensive collection of magazine excerpts of 
 
 the writings of Lafcadio Hearn, together with those of writers about 
 Hearn. Together, 37 pieces, all in separate envelopes, and all lettered. 
 
 Various places,, various dates 
 
 Includes At Hakata, — The Red Bridal, — The Dream of Akinosuke, In 
 
 a Japanese Garden, — ^The most ancient shrine in Japan, — The chief city 
 of the Province of the Gods, — At the Market of the Dead, — A winter 
 journey in Japan, — West Indian Society of many Colonies, — A study of 
 Hatf-Breed races in the West Indies, — A Ghost, — At Grand Anse, — The 
 Creole Patois, — Quaint New Orleans and its Habitants. 
 
363. H^AHN (Lafcadio). Editorials from The Kobe Chronicle. 8vo, original 
 wrappers. Privately printed, no place, no date 
 
 The complete collection of the editorials that Hearn wrote for the Kobe 
 Chronicle , gathered together, and printed in a volume. Comprises twenty- 
 five different editorials, on diverse subjects, including " Japanese Educa- 
 tional Policy," — " Japanese Physique," — " The Race-Problem in America," 
 — " Dr. Tylor on Japanese Influence in Ancient America," — " Mediaeval 
 Superstitions in Journalism," — " Prize-Fighting in the United States," and 
 others. Only one hundred copies were printed, this is number one. 
 Autographed by Mr. Merle Johnson, whose property it is. 
 Accompanying the volume are the original corrected galley proofs. 
 
 BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY OF LAFCADIO HEARN 
 
 364. Heaen's Copy, With His Stamp. Thomas (J. J.)'. The Theory and 
 
 Practice of Creole Grammar. 12mo, orighial cloth. 
 
 Port-of-Spain, 1869 
 
 Lafcadio Heakn's copy, with his stahh' in thuee places, and with 
 
 JiANiJSCEiPT annotations ON PAGES 10, 20, 49, 114, 115 and 125, peesujiably 
 
 IN THE AtJTOGRAPH OP PIeARN. 
 
 A MS. note by Mr. Merle Johnson reads : " Practically all the proverbs 
 given, pp. 120-127 of this work are fouud in Hearn's Gombo Zhebes, 
 18S5, with certain modifications in spelling. ' Ghombo Zhfebes,' p. (7) — 
 Creole Bibliography — credits this work as an original source. — Merle 
 Johnson." 
 
 365. Hearn^k Copy, With Stamp. Brewer (E. C). The Reader's Hand- 
 
 booli: of Allusions, Keferenees, Plots and Stories. Thick 12mo, half 
 
 leather, broken. Philadelphia, 1883 
 
 Feom the library of IjAfcadio Hearn, with his sTAiip on title-page. 
 
 366. Hearn-'s Copy, With Autograph and Stamp. Cox (George W.). 
 
 Lives of Greek Statesmen. 12mo, original cloth, some margins stained. 
 
 New York, 1885 
 Fomierly ownbd by Lafcadio Heaen, with his autograph, " L. Hearn, 
 New Orleans, 1S86," and his library stamp in two places. A MS. note 
 by Mr. Merle Johnson reads : " From Hearn's library, with stump in 
 two places. Interest is added when it is remembered that Hearn's mother 
 was a Greek." 
 
 367. Hearn's Copy, With Stamps. Tennyson (Alfred, Lord). Locksley 
 
 Hall, Sixty Years After, etc. Pirst edition. 13mo, original cloth, 
 imeut. London, 1886 
 
 From the library of Lafcadio Hearn, with his stamp in three places. 
 A MS. note by Mr. Merle Johnson reads ; " Presumably Hearn himself 
 checked the passages [at] p. 23. A reading of the editorial cited below 
 would confirm." Then follows a printed account of the special editorials 
 . that were written by Hearn, No. 71 being Tennyson's " Locksley Hall." 
 
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