Clemens, Samuel L. ("Mark Twain") (1835-1910).
Life on the Mississippi.
Boston: James R. Osgood & Company, 1883.
Large 8vo. Original pictorial brown cloth stamped in gilt and black (light edgewear). Provenance: S.R. Carter (given to:); Mollin Elliott (inscription dated 11 July 1883 on rear free endpaper); The Stacey-Hintons (bookplate).
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.
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