first edition Hardcover
1872 · Hartford, CT
by Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens)
Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, 1872. First American edition, early state. Hardcover. Fair. 591pp. Octavo [23 cm] Brown cloth over boards with lettering and decorative stamping in gilt and blind on the backstrip and boards. Light peach endpapers. Two frontispiece illustrations, and six inserted full-page plates. One leaf of publisher's advertisements at the rear (p. 592). Merle Johnson states with regards to the advert- "Most copies of the first edition examined have this feature but whether or not the very first copies have it present or not cannot be stated with any degree of certainty." Front board partially detached. Front flyleaf completely (truncated)
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