Mark Twain A TRAMP ABROAD 1880 First Edition Clem

Title: A Tramp Abroad
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: American Publishing Company
Printing Year: 1880 First Edition, Second State

Condition/Details: Bound in its original chocolate cloth-covered boards with gilt embossing, this rare antique volume is a first edition example of Mark Twain's work of non-fiction travel literature. It is profusely illustrated, with over three hundred in-text and full-page images, plus a frontispiece portrait and the Moses plate. From the same estate, in lot 422, we are also offering in this auction, a first edition copy of Twain's "Punch, Brothers, Punch", published two years before this title. The volume shows some external age/wear concentrated at the extremities, and is securely bound with some play to the hinges. Internally, the book is very clean, there is no marginalia and no inscriptions, the marble-edged pages are clean with light age toning. The book measures approximately 6" x 9" and contains 631 pages with an advertisement for The Innocents Abroad on the back side of the final text page. Please note that two other Twain first editions are being offered in this catalogue. See lots 1 and 422. Shipping cost (within the U.S.) for this lot will be: $4.50