TWAIN, Mark; Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
Life On The Mississippi.
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company , 1883.
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Salesman Dummy of Life on the Mississippi. Octavo, original brown cloth with 57 pages of sample text and illustrations, with seven blank, red ruled pages at end for subscriber and sales information. Housed in full custom morocco clamshell box. In very good condition. Rare.
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.
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