TWAIN, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens].
Life on the Mississippi.
London: Chatto & Windus , 1883.
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First edition, first issue of Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi
First edition, first issue of Twain's provocative portrait of the great Mississippi River which preceded the first American edition. First issue with the publisher's advertisements at rear dated March 1883. Octavo, original publisher's red pictorial boards stamped in black and gilt, patterned endpapers, frontispiece, plates and over 300 illustrations. In near fine condition with toning to the spine.
An invaluable companion to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's inimitable portrait of 'the great Father of Waters'. Part memoir, part travelogue, it expresses the full range of Twain's literary personality, and remains the most vivid, boisterous and provocative account of the cultural and societal history of the Mississippi Valley, from 'the golden age' of steamboating to the violence wrought by the Civil War.
Life on the Mississippi.
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