2013 April Treasures & Tribes Auction

Lot of 24: Richly eclectic collection of books (some quite famous first additions) from Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain. There are 7 books, 1 elucidati

This is a signed, soft cover first edition of Memories of Mark Twain and Steve Gillis, by William R. Gillis and published in 1924. Gillis and his brot

This first edition of Mark Twain’s Innocents Abroad , New Pilgrim’s Progress has a signature of Adolph Sutro on an inside page. Since it appears it wa

This is a first edition of Following the Equator, an account of that travel published in 1897, the author criticizes racism, imperialism and missionar

This is a rough copy of Mark Twain’s ROUGHING IT. It’s a first edition, published in 1872, fully illustrated by "EMINENT ARTISTS" accordin...

This is a first edition of Mark Twain’s THE AMERICAN CLAIMANT. Published in 1892 by Twain’s own publishing company C.L. Webster Company, this work is

This is a first edition copy of The Gilded Age-A Tale of To-Day, an 1873 novel written by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes greed an

This is a first edition, second state of Mark Twain’s TRAMP ABROAD. Published in 1879 by American Publishing Company of Hartford, Connecticut, this VE

Twain was practically bankrupt in 1894 due to a failed investment into a revolutionary typesetting machine. In an attempt to extricate himself from de

This is a first edition copy of The Gilded Age-A Tale of To-Day, an 1873 novel written by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes greed an

Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Samuel Clemens of his days as a steamboat pilot before the Civil War and also a travel book, recounting his tri

Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Samuel Clemens of his days as a steamboat pilot before the Civil War and also a travel book, recounting his tri

THE STOLEN WHITE ELEPHANT ETC. is a short story written by Mark Twain and published in 1882 by James R. Osgood. In this short story an Indian Elephant

English as She Is Spoke is the common name of a 19th-century book written by Pedro Carolino and falsely additionally credited to Jose de Fonseca which

This is an American first edition of Samuel Clemens’ classic literary work. Originally published in England in December 1884, Clemens and a business p

This is a first edition of Lotos Leaves, a collection of essays, stories and poems written by club members James Peck, C. Florio, Gilbert Burling, Edw

This is a first edition of W.D. Howells’ My Mark Twain Reminiscences and Criticisms, published in 1910 by Harper n Brothers Publishers. Howells, a one

This is a first edition of Mark Twain’s PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF JOAN OF ARC. Originally, Mark Twain`s work was published as a serialization in Harpe

This is a satire by Twain on the mystery novel genre in novella form. In the second arc, Sherlock Holmes was depicted in employing "scientific ...

This is an 1888 collection of short stories compiled by Twain, William Dean Howells and Charles Hopkins Clark. In 1880, George Gebbe suggested to Clem