TY - BOOK AU - Twain,Mark ED - Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) TI - Life on the Mississippi AV - F353 .C6458 1883b PY - 1883/// CY - Boston PB - James R. Osgood and Co. KW - Pilots and pilotage KW - Mississippi River KW - Description and travel KW - Mississippi River Valley KW - Social life and customs N1 - First variant of the first American edition, having an illustration on page 441, showing Mark Twain in flames, which was omitted at the request of Mrs. Clemens, in further printings of the same date. Cf. Merle Johnson. A bibliography of the work of Mark Twain, 1910, p. 57; "Sold by subscription only."; BAL notes two states of p. 443. First state caption reads: The St. Louis Hotel; "first state, intermediate A (B?)" caption reads: The St. Charles Hotel; LC copy in library binding; caption of p. 443 reads: The St. Louis Hotel; Source: Copyright deposit; BAL; 3411 ER -