CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1876.
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1876.

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CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1876.

Square 8o (211 x 166 mm). Wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations in text. (Some staining and light soiling.) Original blue cloth (worn). Provenance: WM. E. Mickle (Book, News and Novelty Dealer, Mobile, Ala., bookseller's ticket on front free endpaper).

THE RARE PUBLISHER'S PROSPECTUS OR SALESMAN'S DUMMY FOR THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION consisting of frontispiece, title, preliminary leaves (pages I-XVI) selections from the text with representative illustrations (first page and 85 other pages of text most with wood engraved illustrations), publisher's advertisements, sheets at end for subscribers' names and orders (approximately 20 subscribers listed) and three binding samples (a backstrip in cloth, and two square leather samples for the "library style" and "half morocco" bindings). See BAL 3369; see Grolier American 79; see Johnson High Spots 23; see Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 43-44.