Life on the Mississippi
by Mark Twain
$750 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books
London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. 8vo. xxv, 561 pp., plus 32 page publisher’s catalogue dated March 1883. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, FIRST STATE. Frontispiece engraving of a New Orleans steamboat with tissue guard and over 300 black and white illustrations throughout. Original illustrated red publisher’s cloth with title in gilt on front and illustration of a steamboat captain on the spine; brown floral endpapers,
- Printing: first
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