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Mark Twain, 1876
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Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain, 1876
CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (“Mark Twain,” 1835-1910). The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1876.
First American edition, first printing, a very attractive and unrestored copy, printed on wove paper, versos of half-title and preface blank. “The irresponsibility, the love of odd adventure, and the sense of natural justice as opposed to the village code, which characterize the heroes of this book and its sequel Huckleberry Finn, presented a sharp contrast to the Sunday School or rags-to-riches literature which was then the common fare doled out to children ... these books let fresh air into the minds of parents who had shut the door on their own childhood, and they will be classics the world over as long as there are boys” (Grolier American 79). BAL 3369; Johnson p. 27; Peter Parley to Penrod 43.
Octavo. Half-title, 4-page publisher's advertisements at end. Wood-engraved frontispiece and numerous illustrations in text by True Williams and others (extremely faint dampstain in prelims). Original blue cloth, blocked in gilt and black, peach endpapers (mild wear to extremities and darkening to spine, slight wrinkling to endleaves, lower hinge cracked); red morocco case.
Mark Twain, 1876
CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (“Mark Twain,” 1835-1910). The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1876.
First American edition, first printing, a very attractive and unrestored copy, printed on wove paper, versos of half-title and preface blank. “The irresponsibility, the love of odd adventure, and the sense of natural justice as opposed to the village code, which characterize the heroes of this book and its sequel Huckleberry Finn, presented a sharp contrast to the Sunday School or rags-to-riches literature which was then the common fare doled out to children ... these books let fresh air into the minds of parents who had shut the door on their own childhood, and they will be classics the world over as long as there are boys” (Grolier American 79). BAL 3369; Johnson p. 27; Peter Parley to Penrod 43.
Octavo. Half-title, 4-page publisher's advertisements at end. Wood-engraved frontispiece and numerous illustrations in text by True Williams and others (extremely faint dampstain in prelims). Original blue cloth, blocked in gilt and black, peach endpapers (mild wear to extremities and darkening to spine, slight wrinkling to endleaves, lower hinge cracked); red morocco case.
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