TWAIN, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens].
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Hartford, Conn: The American Publishing Company , 1876.
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FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MASTERPIECES OF AMERICAN LITERATURE, MARK TWAIN'S THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER; IN EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION
First edition, second issue of one of the great masterpieces of American literature and Twain's best-selling book. Octavo, original blue cloth elaborately stamped in gilt, illustrated with frontispiece and numerous in-text illustrations by True Williams and others. Second issue with the half-title and frontispiece printed on the same leaf. The first and second printings were only 5,000 copies each. (MacDonnell; BAL 3369). In near fine condition. With the gilt and black-stamping exceptionally well preserved. Housed in a custom full morocco clamshell box.
Popular and controversial at the time of publication in 1876, Mark Twain’s masterpiece The Adventures of Tom Sawyer has been adapted into dozens of film, television and theatrical productions. The quintessential tale of American boyhood established one of the most memorable characters in American literature who appeared in three later sequels including Twain’s other most notable work, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. “The first novel Mark Twain wrote without a co-author, Tom Sawyer is also his most clearly autobiographical novel enlivened by extraordinary and melodramatic events, it is otherwise a realistic depiction of the experiences, people and places that Mark Twain knew as a child” (Rasmussen, 459).
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
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