Life on the Mississippi

by Mark Twain, Samuel L. Clemens

$2,950 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. First American edition. First State, with the image of Twain in flames on p. 441 and with The St. Louis Hotel caption on p. 443. In the original publisher's brown cloth with gilt vignettes on the front board and spine. A Very Good+ copy with the front inner hinge expertly repaired, slight wear at the spine ends and corners, otherwise an attractive copy.

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