605.     [AMERICAN LITERATURE]. Lot of 12 nineteenth- and twentieth-century imprints, including Clemens' Life on the Mississippi. Included are:

CLEMENS, Samuel L. Life on the Mississippi. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1883. Three quarter red morocco, original cloth bound in at end of book. Upper cover water stained, a bit of foxing to title page and frontispiece, otherwise interior near fine. First American edition. BAL 3411: first state, intermediate b, with tailpiece depicting urn on p. 441 and caption on p. 443 reading “The St. Charles Hotel.”

BENET, Stephen Vincent. Western Star. New York & Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., [1943]. Very good in browned d.j. with a bit of soiling and wear.

BIERCE, Ambrose. Write it Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults. New York: Walter Neale, [1909]. Very good in chipped and soiled d.j.

DAVIS, Richard Harding. Ranson’s Folly. New York: Scribner’s, 1902. Very good.

FULTON, A.M. & Thomas C. Trueblood. Choice Readings from Standard and Popular Authors. Boston: Ginn & Co., 1889. Poor.

GREY, Zane. The Last of the Plainsmen. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1911]. Very good in worn d.j. Second edition.

HEARN, Lafcadio. Chita: A Memory of Last Island. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1889. Near fine. First edition.

LEWIS, Alfred Henry. Wolfville. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., [1897]. Ex-library, good. Illustrations by Frederic Remington.

LUMMIS, C.F. A New Mexico David. New York: Scribner’s, 1908. Very good.

MAYFIELD, John S. Mark Twain vs. the Street Railway Co. N.p.: Privately printed, 1926. Water stained along top edge (not affecting text), otherwise very good. First edition.

REMINGTON, Frederic. Men with the Bark On. New York & London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1901. Three-quarter green leather over marbled boards. Fine, signed by author on front flyleaf.

STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin. London: Ingram, Cooke, & Co., 1852. Very good. Fifth edition.

($300-600)

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