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Title |
Author |
Price |
| 1883 |
LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI |
Twain, Mark |
$ 1275.00 |
Twain, Mark [pseudonym of Samuel L. Clemens]. LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI. With Over 300 Illustrations. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. 32 pp ads dated March 1883. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black.
First Edition, which was published five days before the American one (and is considerably scarcer: although the number of English copies is not known, we would surmise that it might have been no more than one-tenth of the 50,000 American copies).
LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI is really two books combined. The first twenty one chapters are his early impressions of the great river..., written [and serialized] in 1875 [and] here reprinted, with the balance of the book, chapter twenty-two to the end, being his [new] story of his trip down the river as an honored guest. [Johnson].
This copy has a March 1883 ad catalogue, which is the earliest we have seen (the book was actually published in May 1883); Blanck notes that copies have ads dated as late as 1889.
This is a near-fine copy of this handsomely-bound book: there are a few tiny nicks in the spine ends, and the spine is slightly faded (less than usual for this bright red cloth). The near-fine Manney copy sold for $1,760. Blanck 3410; McBride p. 86 (rebound -- the Hartford collections do not include a copy in original cloth, which is why this title is not pictured with the other Chatto & Windus Twain bindings on p. 154); Johnson p. 43.
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