Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana

Large 8vo. Wood-engraved plates and numerous wood-engraved illustrations in text. Original brown decorated cloth, upper cover and spine blocked in black and gilt (light rubbing to extremities, very light sunning to spine).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, with the tail-piece on p.441 depicting an urn, flames, and the head of Twain, and the caption on p.443 reading “The St. Louis Hotel.” BAL 3411; Johnson, pp.41-43; McBride, p.84.