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TOM SAWYER ABROAD TOM SAWYER, DETECTIVE AND OTHER STORIES Etc., Etc.
by Twain, Mark [Clemens, Samuel L. ]
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About This Item
NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1896. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; Title page dated 1896 w/ no boxed ads on copyright page and 2 pgs of ads at end. Publisher’s original red cloth with gilt-stamped spine and gilt “MT” cornhusk monogram on cover. 8vo. 47 illustrations: 46 plates (incl frontis) & 1 map on a text page. Harper's 1896 edition of Tom Sawyer Abroad / Tom Sawyer Detective and Other Stories, Etc. , Etc. Is a collection of previously published material. Spine sunned. Reinserted pp 123-124, dog ears to lower corners and shallow marginal tears. BAL 3447. Johnson pp62-63. McBride p164. With only 1000 copies printed, one of Twain’s scarcest First Editions. .
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- Title
- TOM SAWYER ABROAD TOM SAWYER, DETECTIVE AND OTHER STORIES Etc., Etc.
- Author
- Twain, Mark [Clemens, Samuel L. ]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers Publishers
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1896
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- MARK TWAIN;
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