Fine Books & Manuscripts
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Lot 301
CLEMENS, Samuel (?Mark Twain?) (1835?1910). Life on the Mis...
Estimate: $400 - $600
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CLEMENS, Samuel (?Mark Twain?) (1835?1910). Life on the Mississippi. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. 8vo. Wood?engraved plates and numerous wood?engraved illustrations in text. Original publisher?s brown decorated cloth, upper cover and spine blocked in black and gilt (spine ends gently frayed, rubbing at corners, joints a bit tender). Provenance: F.W. Goodhue gift inscription to L.R. Hanson dated 1884. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, Intermediate A, with the tail-piece on p. 441 depicting an urn, flames and the head of Twain, and the caption on p. 443 reading ?The St. Charles Hotel.? BAL 3411.
