CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. Life on the Mississippi...With More than 300 Illustrations. [Sold by Subscription Only.]. Boston: James R. Osgood 1883. 8vo, original first edition binding of pictorial brown cloth, block and lettered in gilt and black, slight wear at ends of spine and fore-corners, half morocco folding case. THE RARE PUBLISHER'S PROSPECTUS OR SALESMAN'S DUMMY FOR THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION (which followed the English edition by five days), consisting of preliminary leaves, selections from the text, representative illustrations, publisher's advertisements, sheets at end for subscribers' names and orders (one entry made), and the four bindings samples (backstrips: morocco, cloth, and two styles of calf) mounted on inside covers. See BAL 3411 and Johnson/Clemens, p. 42. In fine condition for this item.

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CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. Life on the Mississippi...With More than 300 Illustrations. [Sold by Subscription Only.]. Boston: James R. Osgood 1883. 8vo, original first edition binding of pictorial brown cloth, block and lettered in gilt and black, slight wear at ends of spine and fore-corners, half morocco folding case. THE RARE PUBLISHER'S PROSPECTUS OR SALESMAN'S DUMMY FOR THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION (which followed the English edition by five days), consisting of preliminary leaves, selections from the text, representative illustrations, publisher's advertisements, sheets at end for subscribers' names and orders (one entry made), and the four bindings samples (backstrips: morocco, cloth, and two styles of calf) mounted on inside covers. See BAL 3411 and Johnson/Clemens, p. 42. In fine condition for this item.