Life on the Mississippi

by Mark Twain

$1,500 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

First edition

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. Hardcover. 8vo 9” x 6” , gilt brown cloth. Frontis., 624 pp. Illus. throughout. Early ownership inscription of “F.A. Snow” in ink on ffep. CONDITION: Very good, bright copy with minimal rubbing, frontis. splitting at hinge but still firmly attached. First edition, second state. Without the tail-piece of Twain’s head on pg. 441 and with the caption

• Binding: Hardcover

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