Mark Twain — The American Claimant

London, Chatto & Windus, 1892 . First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of Mark Twain's humorous novel about mistaken identities. The first UK edition of this work, published in the same year as the US first edition.This humorous novel about mistaken identities and multiple role switches is thought to be one of the first works written with the help of phonographic dictation. With a frontispiece and eighty-one illustrations by Dan Beard and Hal Hurst.With a thirty-two page publisher's catalogue to the rear, dated May 1982.With the bookplate of D.B. Anderson to the front pastedown.A wonderful first edition from the man William Faulkner termed 'the father of American literature&apos. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with fading to back strip. Front hinge strained, but firmly held. Lacking front free endpaper. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, generally firmly bound, but with first gathering working loose. Pages clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: Dan Beard and Hal Hurst. Very Good .