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Mark Twain. Life on the Mississippi, 1st ed.

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1883 1st ed Mark Twain Life on the Mississippi: 1883 1st ed Mark Twain Life on the Mississippi St. Louis Missouri Steamboat “Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.” – Mark Twain, Life on

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Life on the Mississippi, 1st Ed, 2nd St.Mark Twain 1883: Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain 1883. First edition, second state, lacking the urn on page 441 and with the caption The St. Charles Hotel on page 443. Hardback with dark brown cloth cover, with el

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Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, 1883, 1st Edition, illustrated: "Life on the Mississippi" by Mark Twain. Elaborately illustrated throughout with over 300 illustrations, published by James R. Osgood & Co., 1883, First Edition Second State. Tailpiece of Twain in fla

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Mark Twain. Life on the Mississippi, 1st ed.

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Clemens, Samuel L. (Mark Twain.) LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. 8vo. 624 pp., heavily illustrated throughout. Original publisher's 1/2 morocco over cloth, spine slightly skewed, hinges and corners rubbed, binding sound and intact. Contents clean, one leaf with 1" closed tear to margin and a couple of leaves with corner-creases, else a Very Good example. ******************************** First edition and intermediate first state: With the first issue engraving on page 441 with Twain's head in flames (later changed at the behest of Twain's wife who found this image to be disturbing), but with the engraving on 443 properly captioned "The St. Charles Hotel."

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