Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876

From the Library of Christian Heuer

TWAIN, MARK [CLEMENS, S.L.]

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1876

8vo, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, second issue, frontispiece on verso of half-title, and first page of Contents printed on the verso of the preface, wood-engraved frontispiece and numerous text vignettes by True Williams and others, 2pp. of publisher's advertisements at end, publisher's blue cloth blocked in black and gilt, collector's blue cloth chemise in blue morocco-backed slipcase, newspaper clipping laid down on rear free endpaper, some offsetting from clipping, endpaper slightly splitting at hinge, slightly bumped

This first American edition was issued some six months after Chatto and Windus's London edition

LITERATURE:

BAL 3369

PROVENANCE:

Mitchell S. Buck (Ex Libris bookplate)

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