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Life on the Mississippi.
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. Hardcover. 8vo (9” x 6”), gilt brown cloth. Frontis., 624 pp. Illus. throughout. Early ownership inscription of “F.A. Snow” in ink on ffep. CONDITION: Very good, bright copy with minimal rubbing, frontis. splitting at hinge but still firmly attached. First edition, second state. Without the tail-piece of Twain’s head on pg. 441 and with the caption on pg. 443 reading “The St. Charles Hotel.” Twain’s memoir of his pre-Civil War life as a boy and steamboat pilot on the Mississippi, combined with an account of his post-war return to the river and the changes he found. REFERENCES: BAL 3411; Rasmussen, Kent. Mark Twain A to Z. 1995. p. 286.
Item #8504
Price: $1,500.00
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