8vo (215 x 163 mm). Lithographic frontispiece by E. W. Kemble, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 3), illustrations in text. (Some staining or spotting, a few leaves creased.) Original publisher's green gilt-decorated pictorial cloth laid over modern leather (some light wear). 

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, EARLY STATE, with the following issue points: the title leaf in the second state; the frontispiece is in the third 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"; first state of pagination on p. 155; with final blank 23/8. A BRIGHT COPY. BAL 3415; Johnson, p. 43-50.