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Life on the Mississippi / by Mark Twain ; with more than 300 illustrations.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : James R. Osgood and Co., 1883.Description: 624 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • F353 .C6458 1883b
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Barcode
Books Books St. Thomas Becket Library General F TWA Available 2908

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. DLC

Source: Copyright deposit. DLC

BAL 3411