Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by TWAIN, Mark

$65,000 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · Signed

Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1876. Full Description: TWAIN, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1876. First edition. Inscribed on the front free endpaper within a year of publication: "To Mr. Bartlett from the Author. Oct 1877." The recipient is presumed to be Hartford Republican publisher Matthew Henry Bartlett (1833 ? 1914), a friend of Twain's who built the Bartlett Tower (now known as the Heublein Tower) on Connecticut?s Talcott Mountain in 1867. The tower and its sprawling grounds housed a restaurant, a pavilion for dancing and social events, and a carriage house. Twain and his close friend Joseph Twichell (1838 ? 1918) often made the eight-mile hike from downtown Hartford to Bartlett Tower when the weather was warm. ?Twain?s and Twichell?s walks and conversations were an important part of the men?s friendship throughout the 1870s and 1880s and they often referred to them in their correspondence. On one such walk Twichell suggested Twain ?hurl? his Mississippi reminiscences into a magazine, which ultimately led to Life on the Mississippi? (Colebrook Historical Society). Twain and Twichell also made Bartlett?s Tower a destination with their families: in 1880, Twichell wrote in a letter to Twain, ?If this divine weather holds, we Twichells...propose to kick leaves to the Tower Saturday. If you will join us we shall have all the better a time. I think we will telephone Bartlett to make a ready lunch.? Twain commemorat

• Publisher: The American Publishing Company
• Year: 1876
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: unknown

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