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CLEMENS, SAMUEL ("Mark Twain"). Life on the Mississippi. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1883.
4o. (Small dampstain on some lower fore-corner margins.) Original brown cloth, blocked and lettered in gilt and black; quarter morocco folding case.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, with illustration showing mark Twain in flames on p. 441 and the caption on p. 443 reading (incorrectly) "The St. Charles Hotel." Clemens's classic anecdotal travel narrative, which contains an autobiogrpahical account of his childhood experiences, as well as his life on the river as a steamboat pilot. BAL 3411; Johnson, pp. 41-43. A BRILLIANT COPY.
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FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, with illustration showing mark Twain in flames on p. 441 and the caption on p. 443 reading (incorrectly) "The St. Charles Hotel." Clemens's classic anecdotal travel narrative, which contains an autobiogrpahical account of his childhood experiences, as well as his life on the river as a steamboat pilot. BAL 3411; Johnson, pp. 41-43. A BRILLIANT COPY.