Beschreibung:

CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. Autograph letter signed ("S.L.C.") to his publisher James R. Osgood, [Hartford], 21 January [1881]. 2 pages, oblong 12mo, on both sides of a card with Clemens's monogram printed in red, a slight marginal stain on verso, laid into book below . ABOUT WRITING "THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER" AND MENTIONING "TOM SAWYER" "...I have stricken out The Whipping-boy's Story, & added over 130 new pages of MS to the prince's adventures in the rural districts. The number of pages, before, was 734 -- the number is 870, now -- fully as bulky a book as Tom Sawyer , I think. The book is finished, but I expect to add some more pages when I make a final revision -- doubtless next week..." The book was not published until the end of the year. [ With :] CLEMENS, S.L. The Prince and the Pauper. A Tale for Young People of All Ages. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1882. Small 4to, original pictorial green cloth, blocked in gilt and black, gilt-lettered, extremities slightly rubbed, rear cover a little soiled, endpaper cracked at front inner hinge; green half morocco slipcase . FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, BAL's Binding State A, 192 illustrations. BAL 3402; Peter Parley to Penrod , p. 65. Macabre pictorial bookplate of Will M. Clemens. [ Laid in :] A copy of A Boy's Adventure (The Whipping Boy's Story ), [New York: Privately Printed by Merle Johnson, 1928], 4-page leaflet, 8vo , FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, written as part of The Prince and the Pauper , but not included in it (as Clemens notes above), and later adapted for use in Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896), BAL 3545. (3)