Mark Twain — Tom Sawyer Abroad

London, Harper and Brothers, 1896. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, first impression of this very scarce Mark Twain novel. Only 1000 copies of this work were printed. A first edition, first impression. This work had a very small print run. In the publisher's original cloth binding.  "Tom Sawyer Abroad" is Twain"s noted parody adventure tale, a pastiche of Jules Verne"s popular tales. It features Twain"s notable characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as they travel to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon. Told from the perspective of Huck Finn, this work is regarded as the sequel to the Tom Sawyer series. A very bright copy of this novel internally. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Light fading to the spine. Front hinge is slightly strained but firm. Internally, generally firmly bound. Plate ate page 155 is detached but present. Small loss to bottom corner of page 25. Light chips to the edge of this plate. Pages are bright. The occasional light spots and handling marks to pages. Good . Ill.: None. Good .