Square 8vo. Lithographic frontispiece by E.W. Kemble, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 1), illustrations in text. Original pictorial blue cloth stamped in gold and black (tearing to head of spine with minor losses, wear with minor losses to foot of spine, spine darkened, joints starting, some light staining).

 

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, EARLY STATE, with early issue points: second state of p. 57 with "saw" in the eleventh line from the bottom; first state of the list of illustrations with "Him and Another Man" plate listed as being on p. 88; third state of pagination on folio 155); the title leaf is a cancel with 1884 copyright date; third state of p. 283 (a cancel); the portrait frontispiece is in first state. BAL 3415; Grolier American 87; Johnson, pp. 43-50.