TWAIN, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens].
A Tramp Abroad.
"WE WENT SLIPPING SILENTLY ALONG, BETWEEN THE GREEN AND FRAGRANT BANKS, WITH A SENSE OF PLEASURE AND CONTENTMENT THAT GREW AND GREW": FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF MARK TWAIN'S A TRAMP ABROAD
Hartford, Conn: American Publishing Company, 1880.
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First edition, first printing of Twain's classic fictionalized account of his walking tour of central and southern Europe, with the frontispiece in the first state and misprints (p. 37, line 7 up, “fee” for “feel,” p. 46, line 11, “2oo” for “200,” p. 414, line 9 up, “spirting” for “spurting,” p. 465, line 4, “stuck” for “stick"). Octavo, bound in full modern calf with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt ruling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, first state tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Twain with the engravers imprint and "Moses" caption, with three hundred and twenty-eight illustrations by Walter Francis Brown, True W. Williams, Benjamin Henry Day and William Wallace Denslow. BAL 3386. In near fine condition.
A Tramp Abroad.
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