LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI.
With More Than 300 Illustrations. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. Original brown cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt, all edges gilt.
First American Edition, published five days after Chatto & Windus's London edition.
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 is of the second issue (which in our experience is the one more frequently encountered): the illustration of "Twain in flames" is not present at the end of his discourse on cremation on p. 441 (Twain's wife had objected!); and the corrected caption "The St. Charles Hotel" (rather than the earlier "The St. Louis Hotel") appears on p. 443.
This is a very good-plus copy (a few nicks at the spine ends, endpapers cracked and re-glued). Blanck 3411; Johnson pp 41-43. Item #14748
Price: $650.00