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Auction archive: Lot number 290

Is Shakespeare Dead?: From My Autobiography

Estimate
US$250 - US$350
Price realised:
US$204
Auction archive: Lot number 290

Is Shakespeare Dead?: From My Autobiography

Estimate
US$250 - US$350
Price realised:
US$204
Beschreibung:

Title: Is Shakespeare Dead?: From My Autobiography Author: Twain, Mark Place: New York Publisher: Harper & Bros. Date: 1909 Description: [4], 150 pp. Dual frontispieces from photographs of statues of Shakespeare and Bacon. (8vo) later three-quarter "autumn leaf" binding of crushed and laminated morocco with green, red, and yellow dyes in the grain and a gilt and green patterned cloth, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, matching endleaves, top edge gilt, original front and spine cloth bound in. First Edition. Twain takes a close look at the true authorship of Shakespeare's works, in which he sides with the advocates of Sir Francis Bacon as the creator of the Shakespeare canon. BAL 3509. Lot Amendments Condition: In a fine later binding. Item number: 251859

Auction archive: Lot number 290
Auction:
Datum:
25 Sep 2014
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: Is Shakespeare Dead?: From My Autobiography Author: Twain, Mark Place: New York Publisher: Harper & Bros. Date: 1909 Description: [4], 150 pp. Dual frontispieces from photographs of statues of Shakespeare and Bacon. (8vo) later three-quarter "autumn leaf" binding of crushed and laminated morocco with green, red, and yellow dyes in the grain and a gilt and green patterned cloth, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, matching endleaves, top edge gilt, original front and spine cloth bound in. First Edition. Twain takes a close look at the true authorship of Shakespeare's works, in which he sides with the advocates of Sir Francis Bacon as the creator of the Shakespeare canon. BAL 3509. Lot Amendments Condition: In a fine later binding. Item number: 251859

Auction archive: Lot number 290
Auction:
Datum:
25 Sep 2014
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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