Life on the Mississippi

by Mark Twain

$350 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. First Edition. First printing, first state, intermediate A B? , with the tailpiece showing the head of Mark Twain in flames on p.441, but with the caption on p.443 reading St. Charles. Octavo 23cm . Brown cloth stamped in black and gilt; plain endpapers; 625pp; frontispiece and in-text wood engravings. Cloth rubbed, most gilt rubbed away, binding

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