Punch, Brothers, Punch! And Other Sketches

New York: Slote, Woodman & Co, 1878. Second Edition. Cloth. Very good. Second edition. 16mo; 140pp [4]; green cloth, black stamped vignette designs and title, author and a caricature of Twain on the front cover, gilt stamped title to spine, design blind stamped to back cover; glazed cream eps with no decoration; Author’s name in facsimile autograph on title page; Mark Twain’s Scrap Book advertising to rear paste down; scuffing to cover edges with bumped corners and loss, light soiling, age toning of paper, light foxing on a few pages; very good minus. (BAL 3378). Includes the following stories: Punch, Brothers, Punch!, Speech on the Weather at the New England Society’s Seventy-First Annual Dinner, Rogers, Map of Paris (with Map), Random Notes of an Idle Excursion, Speech at a Dinner of the Knights of St. Patrick, An Encounter with an Interviewer, The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence, Etc., and The Canvasser’s Tale. (Inventory #: 910)