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TWAIN, Mark (Samuel Langhorne CLEMENS, 1835-1910). Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer . Paris: Bibliothèque nouvelle de la jeunesse, A. Hennuyer, [1884]. 4° (225 x 176mm). Half-title. Title vignette, text illustrations. (Very occasional light spotting.) Original pictorial cream cloth after A. Souze, gilt edges (lightly rubbed, minor repair at head of spine).
TWAIN, Mark (Samuel Langhorne CLEMENS, 1835-1910). Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer . Paris: Bibliothèque nouvelle de la jeunesse, A. Hennuyer, [1884]. 4° (225 x 176mm). Half-title. Title vignette, text illustrations. (Very occasional light spotting.) Original pictorial cream cloth after A. Souze, gilt edges (lightly rubbed, minor repair at head of spine). TWAIN. Les Aventures de Huck Finn . Paris: Bibliothèque nouvelle de la jeuness, A. Hennuyer, [1886]. 4°. Half-title, title vignette, text illustrations. (Occasional light spotting.). Original pictorial beige cloth after A. Souze (darkened, spotted, a lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH OF BOTH WORKS, translated by William-Little Hughes with Twain's authorisation and illustrated by Achille Sirouy. The books enjoyed great success in France and the translation was not supplanted for several decades. Cf. Ronald Jenn, 'From American Frontier to European Borders, Publishing French Translations of Mark Twain's novels Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn (1884-1963)', Book History 2006, 235-60. (2)