first edition Hardcover
1876 · Hartford, CT
by TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]
Hartford, CT: The American Publishing Company, 1876. First American Edition. Hardcover. Two pages with professional repairs to tears; hinges unbroken and covers tight. Light edgewear with some rubbing and wear to the spine. Easily Very Good. FIRST PRINTING on wove paper and with half-title and frontispiece with blank versos and with "THE" on the half-title page in 10-point rather than 14-point type. Original blue cloth with peach endpapers with front and rear triple flyleaves of laid paper; four pages of ads at the rear. BAL 3369. MacDonnell, 39-40. Illustrated by True Williams and others. (Inventory #: 019589)