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By Mark Twain; designed, printed and bound by Carol Cunningham, with four
illustrations by Maryline Poole Adams
Mill Valley, CA; Sunflower Press, 1986. Hardcover. As new from the printer.
First edition. 42 pages (paginated: iv, 1-27). Book is 2 7/8 (height) x
2 5/8 (depth) inches. A handmade miniature book. Letterpress printed in
Bembo typeface with black and white and color illustrations printed using
printers cuts. Handbound with red endpapers. Twenty-five are bound in black
leather with gold-stamped face and name of Mark Twain, and include the ten-cent
stamp of Mark Twain which was issued February 13, 1940 as well as a four-cent
stamp of a steam-boat issued April 30, 1962. Both stamps are pasted in but
uncancelled. The regular binding is with gray Ingres paper and has an illustration
of Mark Twain in black on the cover (only 47 of these were ever bound).
Limited to 75 copies, numbered and signed by Carol Cunningham.
This edition contains text from the chapter which Mark Twain included in
the first publication of Huckleberry Finn, but which was subsequently deleted
from most editions published thereafter. It first appeared in his book Life
on the Mississippi as a description of the colorful riverboat men who worked
along the river. A rare miniature, especially of interest to the Samuel
Clemens collector.
Standard: $65
Deluxe: $175
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