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CLEMENS, Samuel L. Life on the Mississippi. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883.
8o. Frontispiece, plates and illustrations in text. Original brown decorated cloth, front cover and spine blocked in black and gold (some very light wear at extremeties); cloth folding case. Provenance: Robert Riddle (signature dated "Xmas 1883" on front free endpaper).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, with the tail piece on p. 441 depicting an urn, flames and the head of Twain and the caption on p. 443 reading "The St. Louis Hotel." Chapter 31 contains the first use of fingerprints to solve a crime in fiction, described by Colin Wilson as "a remarkable anticipation of a scientific discovery that was then known to less than half a dozen men." See the illustration on p.346 for an illustration of the thumbprints used to solve the crime. BAL 3411. Queen's Quorum, p.45 (note). A FINE COPY.
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FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, with the tail piece on p. 441 depicting an urn, flames and the head of Twain and the caption on p. 443 reading "The St. Louis Hotel." Chapter 31 contains the first use of fingerprints to solve a crime in fiction, described by Colin Wilson as "a remarkable anticipation of a scientific discovery that was then known to less than half a dozen men." See the illustration on p.346 for an illustration of the thumbprints used to solve the crime. BAL 3411. Queen's Quorum, p.45 (note). A FINE COPY.