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Auction #118 begins on 03 Oct 2024

Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens]

LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI

Published: Chatto & Windus, London, 1883

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Chatto & Windus, London, 1883. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition in the correct first state binding, this UK issue preceding the American edition by a matter of days. 8vo. xxv, 561pp + xxxii publisher's (first state) catalogue dated March 1883. Pictorial red cloth, gilt lettered at the spine and upper board. Patterned endpapers. With a tissue-protected frontispiece, and title page decoration and over three hundred illustrations in the text. The spine cloth very slightly faded. Some wear to the spine ends.  A good copy,  crisp internally.

The author's memoirs of his life as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War, plus an account of his post-war river trip from New Orleans to Saint Paul..

32 pages of ads dated March 1883.

  • Binding Condition: Good
  • Overall Condition: Good
  • Size: 8vo (195 x 140 mm)
  • Sold By: Mantis Books
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  • Country: South Africa
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