In fair condition. Cloth boards exhibit normal wear with scuffed edges and worn/bumped corners. Head and tail of spine bumped & cloth beginning to fray, but remains intact. Gilt lettering on spine moderately dulled, but still legible. Gilt lettering and painted deco on front board bring and clean. Front gutter split at title page with exposed cording. Gutter also beginning to split between pages 16 and 17. Top edge bumped from pages 136 to 188. Light toning throughout text-block. Binding is intact, front hinge fragile. Please see photos.
A part of Charles L. Webster & Co's Fiction, Fact, and Fancy Series, which also includes The German Emperor and His Eastern Neighbors by Poultney Bigelow; Selected Poems by Walt Whitman; Don Finimondone: Calabrian Sketches by Elisabeth Cavazza.
Merry Tales is a collection of Twain's short stories: The Private History of a Campaign That Failed; The Invalid's Story; Luck; The Captain's Story; A Curious Experience; Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning; & Meisterschaft.
A first edition first state with presentable binding. Gift quality!
RAREA1892BJKB - 03/24 - HK1334
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