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Sale 394: Children's, Illustrated & Miniature Books; Photography; Fine Books in All Fields (#394) 12/11/2008 11:00 AM PST Closed
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Lot #847Life on the Mississippi

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$500

Estimate: $300 - $500

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Sale 394: Children's, Illustrated & Miniature Books; Photography; Fine Books in All Fields (#394) 12/11/2008 11:00 AM PST Closed
Starts Ending 12/11/2008 11:00 AM PST

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Title:

Life on the Mississippi

Author:

Twain, Mark

Place Published:

Boston

Publisher:

James R. Osgood

Date Published:

1883

Description:

624 pp. Profusely illustrated throughout. 8½x5¾, original brown cloth decorated in black with gilt pictorial vignettes, lettered in gilt on spine. First American Edition, First State.

First state with both the caption on p.443 reading "The St. Louis Hotel" and tailpiece on p.441 depicts an urn, flames and the head of Mark Twain. At the request of Mrs. Clemens, the tailpiece was removed in later states, as she felt it too morbid. BAL 3411.

Condition:

Spine ends frayed, edges rubbed; front free endpaper and flyleaf lacking, remnants of bookplate on front pastedown, imitation of Twain's signature on rear of frontispiece; else very good.

Item#:

196626

Headline:

Mark Twain Life on the Mississippi 1st Edition
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