1st edition, full brown leather with red and black leather labels with title and author on spine and raised bands, marbled endpapers and marbled edges of pages. Hinges cracked, leather peeling at bottom right corner of front cover, heavily rubbed and bumped at corners and edges, rear cover scratched, internally clean and bright with numerous illustrations, three pieces of tape across spine, large stain at top of spine. Points of issue: the lack of a "S" in caption, The King, p.59. No half title on fly leaf. On the last three lines of p. 72, type is broken. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. 1890 at bottom of title page, but actually released in 1889.