Fine Books & Manuscripts
Wed, Sep 18, 2019 12:30AM EDT
Lot 197
Life on the Mississippi.
Estimate: $400 - $600
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Twain, Mark. Life on the Mississippi. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. First English edition. Original pictorial red cloth stamped in black and titled in gilt, illustrated endpapers with brown leaf pattern. Frontispiece with tissue guard; untrimmed to bastard title. Profusely illustrated. 8vo. xxvi, 561, 32 pp. publisher?s catalogue at rear. Dampstaining and rubbing to boards, spine browned with frayed ends, corners bumped, spine moderately cocked, marred front pastedown, light foxing to frontis and tissue guard; a good copy. BAL 3410.
