CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. Life on the Mississippi. Boston: Osgood, 1883. Tall 8vo, original pictorial brown cloth, blocked and lettered in gilt and black, GILT EDGES; cloth case. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST STATE, the scarcer binding format with all edges gilt, with more than 300 illustrations. BAL 3411. The particularly fine, bright Paul Lemperly copy, with his initialed note about the book laid in. For this and the many Lemperly copies offered here, see his sale catalogue (Parke-Bernet, 4-5 January 1940).