Mark Twain rents a kitten or three as company for the summer vacation in New Hampshire…

A presentation set of The Writings of Mark Twain offered as part of the Sotheby’s New York sale of June 18, a 1903 ‘Hillcrest’ edition, lacked one of the 23 volumes and some of the spines and labels were darkened.

However, it was also a set that Clemens had inscribed to William R. Coe, the son-in-law of Henry Hut…

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