The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Rare first American edition, first printing, first state, of one of the masterpieces of American literature Tom Sawyer; Finely Bound

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

TWAIN, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens].

Item Number: 4341

Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1876.

First edition, first printing, first state (with “THE” on half title in 10-point rather than 14-point type), peach endpapers, printed on wove paper, with preliminary matter paginated [I]-XVI and front and rear triple flyleaves of laid paper. BAL 3369. Johnson, 27-30. MacDonnell, 39-40. MacBride, 40. Octavo, bound in full blue morocco, titles to the spine in gilt, gilt tooling to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.

The first novel Mark Twain wrote without a co-author, Tom Sawyer is also his most clearly autobiographical novel Enlivened by extraordinary and melodramatic events, it is otherwise a realistic depiction of the experiences, people and places that Mark Twain knew as a child" (Rasmussen, 459).

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