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CLEMENS, Samuel Longhorne (1835-1910). 1601. Being A fireside conversation in ye Tyme of ye Goode Queene Bess . New York: Privately Printed [by The Derrydale Press], 1926.
CLEMENS, Samuel Longhorne (1835-1910). 1601. Being A fireside conversation in ye Tyme of ye Goode Queene Bess . New York: Privately Printed [by The Derrydale Press], 1926. 8 o (237 x 161 mm). Title printed in red and black, text with red initial capital letters printed within a decorative border. Original off-white paper boards (top edge toned, hinges loose); black quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance : Frank J. Lowe, Vice President, the Derrydale Press (signature in pencil on flyleaf); Don Frazier (his library sold to:) John Moores (his sale Lang's, 2 November 2007, lot 557). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 42 of 100 copies printed for "H.D.W." This work does not bear the imprint of the Derrydale press; the only identifying mark in this work is Connett's "A" device on the verso of the title-page. Siegel comments that "in all our researches, we have not located any mention by Connett of this work. It is undoubtedly the work of J.N. Johnston, although there is no reference to Johnston in the book...We have been unable to identify 'H.D.W.'" Frazier was able to track down a letter from Eugene Connett to Mr. Field of the Grolier Club in the Harvard College Library copy of the work. It reads: "I am sending you a copy of that most terrible but authentic masterpiece of Mark Twain's '1601.' A boy will deliver it to your house tomorrow. I did a somewhat overpowering design for this book in the vain hope of overpowering the text but I find the text cant [sic] be overpowered - no how!" Laid into this copy are a photocopy and typed facsimile of that letter. RARE: According to American Book Prices Current , only this and one other copy of this work have sold at auction in the last 30 years. Frazier T-6-a; Siegel A.