The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today

by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens); Charles Dudley Warner

$250 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1873. First Edition, first state. Hardcover. Good. 22.5 x 15 cm. 574 [2] pp. Rebound into full black leather, gilt lettering to spine and the previous owner's name in gilt on front cover. The fold-out plate opposite page 246 is missing. Bookplate on front paste-down. Chip out of head of spine. Many variants were done of this work. This is the first state of the 1873 first edition with all of the points described in BAL. These include: White etc. on title page, "Eschol Sellers" under the chapter heading for Chapter 5 on page (vii), final illustration numbered 211 instead of 212 on page xvi, no comma after Hallelujah on page 246, line 5, period after Dr. Jackson on page 280, no illustration on page 403, lines are repeated on the top and bottom of pages 351 and 352. No ads. BAL 3357.

• Publisher: American Publishing Company
• Year: 1873
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: hardcover

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.