THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
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THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER

MARK TWAIN, 1876

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THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
MARK TWAIN, 1876
CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (1835-1910). The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford, Connecticut: The American Publishing Company, 1876.
Octavo. Half-title, four-page publisher's advertisements at end. Wood-engraved frontispiece and numerous illustrations in text by True Williams and others (extremely faint dampstain to preliminaries). Original blue cloth, blocked in gold and black with four gold stars on upper cover, peach endpapers (mild wear to extremities and darkening to spine, endpapers slightly wrinkled, upper hinge cracked); custom red morocco slipcase.
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Theodore B. Baum; his sale, Christie's New York, 14 September 2021, lot 138

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Peter Klarnet
Peter Klarnet Senior Specialist, Americana

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First American edition, first printing, a very attractive and unrestored copy.

“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). Printed on wove paper, versos of half-title and preface blank. BAL 3369; Johnson p. 27; Peter Parley to Penrod 43.

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