Signed book: The Innocents Abroad. Later printing. NY: Harper and Brothers, 1905. Hardcover, 5.5 x 8, 446 pages. Signed and inscribed on the front pastedown, “To S. B. Pearmain, with the kindest regards of The Author. It is best to rest, on the to-days; it makes us fresh for work on the to-morrows. Truly Yours, Mark Twain, Oct. 27/05.” Autographic condition: fine, with mild toning to edges of pastedown. Book condition: VG-/None. Red cloth-covered boards with stamped lettering and decoration; mild wear to edges; spine sunned; mild soiling to exterior; textblock edges darkened; few minor spots on endpapers; front and rear hinges have been very neatly repaired; few small pencil notes and previous seller’s tiny sticker to ffep. In late October, early November of 1905, Clemens spent two weeks in Boston as the guests of Sumner B. Pearmain and his wife Alice, neighbors of Clemens during his stays in Dublin, New Hampshire, in the summers of 1905 and 1906. In an article from the Boston Sunday Post, dated May 20, 1906, Clemens praises Alice for curing a prolonged stomach aliment, adding that ‘She told me that I needed plenty of food, as I had been starving an excellent digestive apparatus, and there is not a doctor that lives today who can tell me that she was not right in her cure.’” Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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