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The Innocents at Home.
Melbourne: George Robertson, 1873. Hardcover. 16mo (6.75” x 4.5”), pictorial paper over boards. [i-vii], 13–344 pp. 8 pp. of pub. ads. Early ownership inscription in ink on title. CONDITION: Fair, covers encapsulated in the relatively recent past, spine worn with split along lower half and 1” loss at bottom, loss to paper covering rear cover near spine, boards intact. Extremely rare first Australian edition of Roughing It, appearing under Twain’s “provisional title,” Innocents at Home. Consisting of two parts, “Roughing It” and “The Pacific Coast,” the text of the latter appears in chapters 46–79 of the American and English editions of Roughing It. According to editor Paul Baender, when composing Roughing It Twain “incorporated several passages from letters to the Sacramento Union (1866), from sketches in the Buffalo Express (1869–1870), and from a sketch in the Galaxy (1871).” The sketches from the Buffalo Express constitute the text found in “The Pacific Coast” section of this volume. OCLC records only five copies held in libraries worldwide, with just one copy in the U.S, at UC Berkley. Not in Johnson or BAL. REFERENCES: Rasmusen, R. Kent. Mark Twain A to Z (New York, 1995), p. 407; Rogers & Baender. The Works of Mark Twain: Roughing It, vol. 2. pg. 634.
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