Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurís Court by TWAIN, Mark - 1889

First Issue of "Connecticut Yankee" TWAIN, Mark. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurís Court. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1889. First edition, first issue, i.e. with the "s" ornament in the caption of the plate on page 59 that reads ìThe Kingî, this ornament was later removed. And with no damage to the type on page 72. Square octavo (8 5/16 x 6 1/2 inches; 211 x 168 mm). [i]-xv, [1, blank], 17-575, [1, blank], [2, publisherís advertisements], [2, blank] pp. With frontispiece and numerous intertextual drawings and full-page drawings within the pagination. Original publisher's olive green cloth. Front board pictorially stamped in blue, gilt, and black. Spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Floral patterned endpapers. Very minimal tip and spine extremity rubbing. Tiny repairs to the lower outer corners of pages 221-225 and page 231-280, not affecting text. Additional small bumps or creases to fore-edge margins of pages 281-324. Pages 273-276 cut about 1 cm short at bottom margin, not affecting text. Bookplate of Charle Batchelor on front pastedown. Binding very slightly skewed. Otherwise, an excellent copy with text and binding extremely bright and clean. "[In A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Twain takes the opportunity to satirize the Old World, chivalry, kings and the church. Many of the Arthurian knights are depicted, as seen through the unimpressed eyes of a Yankee." (BenÈt's Reader's Encyclopedia, 223). BAL 3429. Johnson, Twain. HBS 67879. $2,000