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New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1923. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. A Fine copy of the first edition printing, in a Near Fine (for this volume) dust jacket. The original red cloth binding's front board and spine are lettered and decorated in gilt, the spine ends show light pushing and mild rubbing, and each board's leading corners show only mild rubbing. The dust jacket, lettered and decorated in rich red, shows light wear and minor loss (including a touch at the spine panel's head, and a larger chip at the jacket's spine tail) and is easily the cleanest, brightest, most unfaded one we ever have seen. The jacket's front panel presents a quote from famed Twain Bibliographer Albert Bigelow Payne illustrating the volume's importance by stating as follows: "A number of articles in this volume, even the more important, have not heretofore appeared in print. Few of these papers were unimportant, and a fresh interest attaches to them today in the fact that they present some new point of observation, some hitherto unexpected angle of Mark Twain's indefatigable thought." The dust jacket is NOT price-clipped [$2.25] [while we cannot say that no others exist, this is THE ONLY COPY OF THIS JACKET THAT WE EVER HAVE SEEN THAT IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED] and the rear flap shows the "BOOK-SELLERS REORDER COUPON". Copies of the first edition in their original cloth and dust jacket are quite uncommon and copies as nice as is this one, are, in our experience RARE.