8vo. Half-title, frontispiece by E. W. Kemble, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt [BAL state 1], numerous illustrations. (Some light soiling, creasing, and spotting.) Original green pictorial cloth stamped in black and gilt (rebacked preserving original spine and endpapers, a few tears with repairs to endpapers, some wear and soiling). 

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, early issue with the following issue points: the frontispiece in the first state; title-leaf in the second state; first state of p. 13 with "Him and Another Man" plate listed as being on p. 88; first state of p. 57 with “was”; third state of p. 155; second state of p.283 (tipped-in); with final blank 23/8. BAL 3415; Johnson pp. 43-50.