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1926 Harper & Brothers Edition

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

Mark Twain
Harper & Brothers, 1926. Later edition, first printing.
$60One copy · this copy
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What we checked, and where to see itRCB-cf058a9ae441 · 9 photographs of this copy
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Title page dated MCMXXVI (1926), Harper & Brothers, New York and London
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Illustrated by G. B. Cutts — an illustrated edition postdating the 1896 first
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Copyright page: 'Copyright, 1896 and 1899 by Harper & Brothers; Copyright, 1924 by Clara Gabrilowitsch'
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Harper date/printing code 'I-A' present below the copyright block
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Pictorial paste-down on cloth boards, gilt-lettered spine, no dust jacket
examined on the copy in hand
Flaws, each one named
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Fraying and loss to cloth at head and tail of spine
see it — photograph 7
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Worn/exposed corners and rubbing to board edges
see it — photograph 7
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Scratches and rubbing to rear board
see it — photograph 8
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Toning/browning to text block and page edges
see it — photograph 4
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Damp/water toning to top corner of front endpaper leaf
see it — photograph 6
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Pencil ownership signature to front free endpaper
see it — photograph 6
This copy
1926 Harper & Brothers Edition

What a true first shows: First edition in book form: Harper & Brothers, New York, 1896 (2 volumes), following serialization in Harper's Magazine 1895-96. This 1926 illustrated edition (illustrated by G. B. Cutts) is a much later separate edition, not the true first.

Photographs show the exact copy you will receive. Every flaw we found is listed above; if we missed one, the return is on us.