CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain"). Life on the Mississippi. Boston, 1883. 8o. Illustrated. Original brown cloth, stamped in black and gilt (fore-edge of upper cover bumped with resulting small closed tear to cloth), else a beautiful, tight copy. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with the flaming urn underneath Twain's head on p. 441 and "The St. Louis Hotel" caption on p. 443. BAL 3411.