TWAIN, Mark.
Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Hartford: American Publishing Company , 1876.
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Rare first American edition, first printing, first state, of one of the masterpieces of American literature, Tom Sawyer; WIth laid in calling card of the author’s signature
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, original blue cloth, peach endpapers, top edge gilt. In very good condition with some very light rubbing to the cloth. Laid in is a bold clear full signature of Samuel L. Clemens. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A very bright example of an important book.
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).
Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
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