Edité par Union Publishing Co., Chicago, 1872
Vendeur : By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, Etats-Unis
EUR 240,79
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Ajouter au panierOriginal Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Second Printing (first 1871). Spine ends repaired; new rear endpaper.
Edité par Union Publishing Company, Chicago, 1871
Vendeur : Bibliophilia Books, Tampa, FL, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
EUR 328,34
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Ajouter au panierHardcover. Etat : Very Good. First edition. 8vo. - (4),458 pp. - Original green cloth with pictorial decoration on front cover stamped in gilt (City Hall of Chicago burning). - Covers worn at extremities, spine somewhat faded, some foxing on endpapers, else very good. - First Edition. - Profusely illustrated with engravings (many full- page), and a folding engraved map, showing the bounderies of the fire. - Signed on inside front cover in ink "S.L. Clemens (Mark Twain)", and on front free endpaper "Eugene Field / Chicago, Sept. 14, 1895". - A note in pencil on front free endpaper states: "Autographs of Field and Twain are believed to be the work of notorious forger, Henry Dayton Sickles. Authority: Ralph Newman, Abraham Lincoln Book Store. - Newberry Library has a collection of Sickles' forgeries. Sickles worked in Chicago. 8/12/69.".