Twain, Mark — A Tramp Abroad

Hartford, CT / London, American Publishing Company / Chatto & Windus, 1880. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover. Bound in brown cloth. Gilt stamped titles and illustration. 631 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : 328 illustrations, 1 portrait, music ; 23 cm. Volume of humorous sketches, observations and digressions occasioned by the Clemens family's trip to Europe from spring 1878 until autumn 1879. ‡b Their travels took them primarily through Germany and Switzerland, with final stops in France and Italy. During the summer of 1878, Twain made a month-long tramp in the Black Forest and Swiss Alps with his friend, Reverend Joseph Twitchell (named Harris in the book). As the author advised, it was a book "written by one loafer for a brother loafer to read. Fair. A reading or repair copy. front board and first four pages detached. Spine has a good degree of loss to cloth.