8vo. Lithographic frontispiece by E. W. Kemble with tissue-guard, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt [BAL state 1], in-text illustrations throughout (previous owner's inscription partially erased on preliminary page). Original green gilt decorated pictorial cloth (rubbing, particularly on spine ends and corners, ink stain to rear board, rear joint cracked); folding case.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, EARLY STATE, with the following issue points: the title leaf is in either second or third state (first state only noted in the prospectus; no copy has ever been seen); first state portrait frontispiece; first state of p.9 with “decided” for “decides”; first state of p.13 with "Him and Another Man" plate incorrectly listed as being on p.88; first state of p.57 with "was" for “saw”; third state of pagination on p.155 and on p.283, which is a canceled leaf indicating that the present copy may have originally been printed with the obscene Uncle Silas illustration. BAL 3415; Grolier 100 American, 87; Johnson, pp.43-50.