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CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE ("MARK TWAIN"). 1835-1910.
Photograph Initialed ("SLC") and inscribed

5 December 2019, 10:00 EST
New York

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CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE ("MARK TWAIN"). 1835-1910.

Photograph Initialed ("SLC") and inscribed "Oh, I could, couldn't, couldn't get a count out of this arrangement!" [month illegible] 7, 1908, gelatin silver print, approximately 11 x 14 inches, tipped to board and matted, depicting Clemens standing at his billiard table, inscription somewhat faint, two words traced over, a few stray marks.

Clemens, dapper in his trademark white three-piece suit, studies the three balls on the billiard table, two long rows of books are visible on the shelf behind him. Clemens became obsessed with billiards late in his life when he received a table as a gift before his 71st birthday.

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