Mark Twain — Life on the Mississippi

Boston, James R. Osgood, 1883 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of Mark Twain's biographical account of his experiences travelling along the Mississippi River in 19th century America, illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work. Intermediate State B, with the first state 'St. Louis Hotel' caption to page 443, and without the illustration to page 441 (a second state issue point). In the publisher's original decorative cloth binding. 'Life on the Mississippi' recounts Twain's experiences as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River in the days before the American Civil War, and then from New Orleans to Saint Paul after the war. Illustrated with a frontispiece and over three hundred vignette and full page illustrations. Written by Mark Twain, one of the most popular American authors of all time, best known for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In the publisher's original decorative cloth binding. Boards bright. Minor losses of cloth to back strip head and tail. Front hinge tenderly held, with rear hinge just a touch strained. Internally, binding strained, with three central gatherings working loose, and one gathering detached and loosely inserted. Frontispiece tenderly held. Pages clean and bright, with only the odd handling mark. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .