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Lot 4
Sale 6426 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Nov 13, 2025
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
Estimate
$600 -
800
Lot Description
CLEMENS, Samuel L. ("Mark Twain") (1835-1910). Life on the Mississippi. Boston: James R. Osgood & Company, 1883.
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.
This lot is located in Chicago.

