TWAIN, MARK. Life on the Mississippi. Illustrated. 8vo, original gilt-pictorial and black-stamped cloth, spine ends and tips rubbed slightly; front hinge starting, small 3-mm hole in margin of frontispiece, title lightly soiled, split between frontispiece and title, few center gatherings a bit sprung but still holding firm. first edition, first state with tailpiece on p. 441, and p. 443 with "The St. Louis Hotel" caption. BAL 3411. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1883