The Gilded Age

by Twain, Mark and Charles Dudley Warner

$250 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

Hartford, Conn. and Syracuse, New York: American Publishing Company and Watson Gill, 1874 First edition. Sold by subscription only on title page . 213 illustrations with some full page plates. Mixed issue of the 9 major points. Point 1: Ads at back with Everybody s Friend undescribed - state A; Point 2: Artist White listed on title page - state A; Point 3: page vii - Eschol Sellers under Chapter 5 - state A; Point 4: page xvi - final illustrations numbered 212 - state B; Point 5: Page 246 - no comma follows Hallelujah on line 5 from bottom - state A; Point 6: no period after Dr. Jackson line 18 - state B; Point 7: on page 351 last line is not would kill me... - state B; Point 8: Page 353 lines 1 2 She looked down into his face... is absent - state B; Point 9: page 403 has an illustration. with date of 1873 on copyright page and 1874 on title page - state B. xvi + 17- 574 pages + 2 page appendix + 2 pages of ads at back plus frontispiece. 8vo 9 tall. Black cloth - front board has been neatly replaced recently . Spine has been nicely covered with black leather recently. The original back board is deeply blindstamped and worn at edges... Folding map of Salt Kick Branch of the Pacific Railroad has been replaced with a scan from another copy printed on photo paper.. Nice clean text. Good condition..

• Publisher: American Publishing Company and Watson Gill
• Year: 1874
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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