Jun 20, 2013 - Sale 2319

Sale 2319 - Lot 283

Price Realized: $ 480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
TWAIN, MARK. Life on the Mississippi. Illustrated throughout. 8vo, publisher's brown cloth stamped in black and gilt, minor shelfwear mostly to spine tips and corners; contents clean. A very nice copy. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1883

Additional Details

first american edition, BAL First state, Intermediate A (B?). One of two intermediate first state issues (priority undetermined); this with tailpiece on p. 441 present, and p. 443 with "The St. Charles Hotel" caption. In a bright, clean binding. Twain's evocative account of America's greatest waterway. BAL 3411; Johnson pp. 41-43.