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366 pp., blank leaf. Double frontispiece (including portrait), plus numerous wood engravings throughout. (8vo)  sheep. First American Edition.

A landmark of American literature, exhibiting the following issue points: title leaf is conjugate with copyright notice dated 1884 (third  state); Page 13 with the illustration captioned "Him and another Man" incorrectly listed as p.88 (first state); 11th line from bottom of p.57 reads "...with the was..." (first state); p. 283 is a cancel, with corrected engraving (third state), the final 5 in p.155 is present, set above the line of the first (state 2(1?)); leaf 23-8 is present as a blank; first state of the frontispiece portrait (imprint of Heliotype Printing Company, tablecloth clearly visible). BAL 3415; Grolier American Hundred 87.