THE GILDED AGE A Tale of Today

by Twain, Mark & Warner, Charles Dudley f4c

$250 · Offered by Biblio

Hartford: American Publishing Co. Very Good book. Eschol most other BAL 1st state points.. 1874 (1873cp). Early printing. Hardcover. VG book. 8vo, xvi,(17-574,(2)pp. Many in text illus full page plates. Newly rebound in brown leather w orig spine labels. . According to BAL AGE just came on the market Christmas day, 1873. Firsts Magazine, vol 8 # 7/8 says it came on the market Dec 11, 73 and 12,000 copies sold that year. BAL Firsts Magazine both state the very first printings had Eschol on pages vii, 27, 247 and 355,as does this copy. Eschol was quickly changed to Beriah. Firsts believes this corection nwas done in the 2nd printing. Very early copies also have the line repeats on pages 351, 2 3. This copy DOES NOT have these repeats. But it has all the other BAL 1st state points. BAL also says the genuine tp also includes White as one of the illustrators and Wm H Lockwood is on the verso, as does this copy. A variant tp contained neither White nor Lockwood. Not sure if these tp cp points for the 1873 edition apply also to the 1874 edition. This copy is a very early printing. Fold out SALT LICK has been folded wrong but there are no tears. Tight, no loose pages, very nice inside. Just a few soiled or foxed spots. Labels are gilt lettered black leather so originally bound in sheep. Twain s indictment of the Robber Baron era, and the present!!!!! .

• Publisher: American Publishing Co
• Year: 1874
• Edition: Early printing
• Printing: first
• Binding: hardcover

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