The American Claimant and Pudd'nhead Wilson

A beautiful hardcover edition in very good condition. Boards are clean throughout — navy blue leatherette to the spine and back with a grey coated front board bearing a gold "MT" monogram in script, and a red spine label with gilt lettering and decorative gilt scrollwork. Pages are clean and unmarked with deckle edges throughout. No dust jacket, as issued. The American Claimant and Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain. Nelson Doubleday Inc., Garden City, New York, circa 1980. Published by arrangement with Harper & Row under the S. L. Clemens / Mark Twain trademark. Part of the Nelson Doubleday six-volume collected works of Mark Twain, printed on quality deckle-edge paper. The American Claimant (1892) is a satirical comedy of mistaken identity; Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) is a darker satire of race and identity set in the antebellum South.