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William F. Gill and Company,. Good with no dust jacket. 1879. Hardcover. Blue Hb; 455 pages .

William F. Gill and Company,. Good with no dust jacket. 1879. Hardcover. Blue Hb; 455 pages .

Boston: William F. Gill and Company, 1875. 1st ed., 1st printing (with Welch, Bigelow device). BAL 3363. Decorated brown cloth, large 8vo. Fine. Fine, bright, inside and out. A lovely copy. Alas, lacking the final plate, apparently never bound in. First appearance of Mark Twain's "An Encounter with an Interviewer" pp 27-32.

Boston: William F. Gill and Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1875. First Edition; First Printing. Full-Leather. First state with Welch, Bigelow Co. University Press device on copyright page. Extensively decorated full leather boards with gilt and brown imprint. Leather is scuffed with rubbed edges and bumped corners. Spine shaken. Marbled endpapers with some cracking at hinges, all edges gilt with a few scuffs and light soil. Endpapers and a few text pages have light soil, small tears, and light shadows from tissue over plates. This book, a product of the members of the literary Lotos Club, which took its name from Alfred Tennyson's poem "The Lotos Eaters," contains the first appearance of member Mark Twain's short story " An Encounter with an Interviewer." BAL 3363. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 411 pp .

Boston: William F. Gill and Company, 1875. First edition, first state, with Welch, Bigelow Co.-University Press device on copyright page. Illustrated throughout with numerous plates. 411 pp. 1 vols. Square 8vo. Ornately decorated blind-stamped morocco with gilt, a.e.g. Faint gift inscription, ridges of spine and hinges rubbed, lower hinge starting, overall a very nice copy. First edition, first state, with Welch, Bigelow Co.-University Press device on copyright page. Illustrated throughout with numerous plates. 411 pp. 1 vols. Square 8vo. This is the first appearance of Samuel Clemens's "An Encounter with an Interviewer".