Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World - Salesman's Dummy

by Twain, Mark (Clemens, Samuel Langhorne)

$250 · Offered by Biblio

In dust jacket

New York: Harper Brothers, 1897. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Front hinge loosening, front free endpaper and title page loose but included, lacks sample spine designs (removed from inside front board), first page of subscription sheets used as a general account ledger (pencil notes). 1897 Hard Cover. Navy blue cloth, color illustration mounted on front board, engraved illustrations. A salesman s dummy copy of the travelogue written by Twain beginning in 1895, when we began a tour of the British Empire to present lectures as a means of paying off the sizable debt associated with a failed investment in a typesetting machine. The narrative includes indictments of racism, imperialism, and missionary zealotry. Several (rather farcical) fictional pieces are interwoven throughout.

• Publisher: Harper & Brothers
• Year: 1897
• Binding: hardcover

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