CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorn. (“Mark Twain” 1835-1910). The Adventures of Tom Sawyer . Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1876. The Doheny copy. The first edition in the publisher’s original sheep binding . "The irresponsibility, the love of odd adventure, and the sense of natural justice as opposed to the village code, which characterize the heroes of this book and its sequel Huckleberry Finn , presented a sharp contrast to the Sunday School or rags-to-riches literature which was then the common fare doled out to children [...] These books let fresh air into the minds of parents who had shut the door on their own childhood, and they will be classics the world over as long as there are boys" (Grolier American 79). This copy is from the second printing, issue A, with the preliminiaries mispaginated and no blanks after the half-title. BAL 3369. Octavo (210 x 165mm). Half-title. Wood-engraved frontispiece, on laid paper. Original sheep (some repairs to spine ends and joints, a little wear to extremities). Provenance : Frederick Skiff (bookplate) – Estelle Doheny (her sale, Christie's New York, 14 December 2001, lot 317).
CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorn. (“Mark Twain” 1835-1910). The Adventures of Tom Sawyer . Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1876. The Doheny copy. The first edition in the publisher’s original sheep binding . "The irresponsibility, the love of odd adventure, and the sense of natural justice as opposed to the village code, which characterize the heroes of this book and its sequel Huckleberry Finn , presented a sharp contrast to the Sunday School or rags-to-riches literature which was then the common fare doled out to children [...] These books let fresh air into the minds of parents who had shut the door on their own childhood, and they will be classics the world over as long as there are boys" (Grolier American 79). This copy is from the second printing, issue A, with the preliminiaries mispaginated and no blanks after the half-title. BAL 3369. Octavo (210 x 165mm). Half-title. Wood-engraved frontispiece, on laid paper. Original sheep (some repairs to spine ends and joints, a little wear to extremities). Provenance : Frederick Skiff (bookplate) – Estelle Doheny (her sale, Christie's New York, 14 December 2001, lot 317).
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