Mark Twain
ROUGHING IT
1872

1st EDITION

Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)

ROUGHING IT

 

Hartford, Connecticut: American Publishing Company, 1872.

9 x 61/4 inches 

[4 blank leaves]+[2 leaves displaying the 2 frontis plates]+[xviii]+[19-591]+[Publisher's Advert to back of p591]+[4 blank leaves]. 6 full page plates between pages: 100 and 101, 176 and 177, 264 and 265, 316 and 317, 502 and 503, 546 and 547. Complete.

FIRST EDITION / LATER VARIANT STATE with points:

  • Capital "T" in trees on page 156
  • "thirteenth" instead of "sixteenth" on page 156
  • words "he" and "his" are absent on page 242
  • Capital "E" in "eastern" on page 330, line 23
  • Publisher's Advertising on page 592

Good: Upper cloth spine torn, front cover partially detached but holding well, some wear to edges , bumped corners, some foxing and spotting to front and rear endpapers, former owner's name to 1st blank and again to title page, 503-508 and 525-528 minor chipping to bottom edges of pages (likely happened during printing). Otherwisetextblock is tight, square and complete with clean, bright pages.

$350.00

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