![]() ![]() HéRISSEY, éVREUX' on the lower wrapper, suggesting that the English wrappers issue was bound in France. , AND AT LONDON' at the foot of the upper board, while the English issue in wrappers bears the same text on the spine and upper wrapper as the English issue in boards, with the addition of the words 'IMPRIMERIE, CH. 1, part 2, Second front endpaper, versoThird front endpaper, recto PML 967, Vol. 1, part 1, Binders rear blank verso Inside back cover. 1, part 1, Rear free endpaper versoBinders rear blank recto (with ticket) PML 966, Vol. The binding of the English issue in boards is that of the French issue, with the addition of the lines 'THE POETRY PUBLISHING Co.,, HAVEN ROAD, EXETER. 180 (blank) Rear free endpaper recto PML 966, Vol. Furthermore, only the English issue in boards contains the Daniel-Girard frontispiece, which is absent from the English issue in wrappers. The contents of the English issue differ from those of the French: although the English issue uses the half-title, title, dedication and text of pp.I-III and pp.1- of the French issue, the English issue also contains a leaf bearing an introduction signed 'C.J.A.' tipped onto the verso of the dedication and a half-tone portrait frontispiece tipped in following the title. THE SECOND EDITION, IN THREE STATES, TWO UNKNOWN TO MINKOFF. (Scattered light spotting.) Original printed wrappers (spine lightly browned, wrappers very lightly marked). This is the first edition, second state, with the St. Gray-tan endpapers, with ownership inscription dated Christmas 1884 on front free endpaper. Brown cloth, title in gilt on spine, illustrations stamped in gilt and black on spine and front cover. Paris and Exeter: Charles Hérissey for Albert Messein and The Poetry Publishing Company, 1925. First edition, second state of Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi. Minkoff A2b (this variant not recorded).Ĭ. Exhibited: Grolier Club, New York (loosely-inserted exhibition card). Provenance: sale, Pacific, 30 November 1995, lot 45. Pochoir-coloured frontispiece after Daniel-Girard, mounted half-tone portrait frontispiece, INSCRIBED '"THE ROAD WINDS UPWARD ALL THE WAY", CARESSE CROSBY, NOVEMBER 18 1930' (Scattered spotting.) Original paper-backed boards (lightly spotted, extremities a little rubbed and bumped). ![]() ![]() Paris and Exeter: Charles Hérissey for Albert Messein and The Poetry Publishing Company, 1925. King (pencilled name on front free endpaper). (Variable spotting.) Original paper-backed boards lettered in gilt on the upper board and spine (boards a little spotted and marked, extremities a little rubbed and chipped, block split). Pochoir-coloured frontispiece after Daniel-Girard. Paris: Charles Hérissey for Albert Messein, 1925. ![]()
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