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734pp, First edition/First Printing. As New condition. Twenty-seven chapters. Detailed survey of cargo ships, containerships, barge carriers, tankers, bulk carriers, ore/bulk/oil ships, tug barges, ship construction, launching.

165pp. cover has white staining on upper 1" of back and spine, contents are unmarked. Signed and dated by authorincluding the two fraternal lodges he belonged to (see photo). Indescribable blend of mysticism, religion, astronomy and philosophy. Extremely scarce and possibly only autographed copy for sale.

First appearance of Mark Twain's "The Canvasser's Tale." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume XXXVIII.--Number 20. December 1876 Back cover missing; fraying to spine and edges light foxed area on lower right of pages but otherwise pages are very clean, some pages uncut (see three photos). Twain began writing for The Atlantic Monthly in 1874. Quite rare as such individual issues were often bound in hardcover collections. Issue also includes an installment of Henry James's "The American" and "Daniel Deronda: A Conversation." A true first printing of a Twain story.

Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XXV. --June, 1875.--No. CCXII. Front cover missing, foxing on edges but not on text block, spine missing pieces on top and bottom. Installment VI of Twain's "Old Times on the Mississippi," (pp 721-730) Twain renamed the book"Life on the Mississippi" and it was published in 1883. This excerpt is ten pages long and subtitled OFFICIAL RANK AND DIGNITY OF A PILOT. THE RISE AND DECADENCE OF THE PILOTS' ASSOCIATION. Rare first printing of a portion of Twain's classic book "Life on the Mississippi" as magazine content. Copies of Atlantic Monthly from early years usually survived in bound hardcover volumes. and these fragile individual copies are scarce.