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1883 1st Edition Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
REF: ES1683 / LA368766
£200
€234
$252
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Description
Published by Chatto & Windus, London 1883. First UK Edition
First Edition but a later issue with July 1883 to rear catalogue [First Issue was March 1883] hardback in the original decorated cloth binding, numerous illustrations + Frontis, Publisher's catalogue to rear, original decorated endpapers
Book measures approx 8" x 5" with 25 + 561 pages + catalogue
Desirable Twain First Edition and still in the original binding
measurements
Height:
8 in
Width:
5 in
declaration
Elder Books & Collectables has clarified that the 1883 1st Edition Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (LA368766) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being 1883
condition
LIGHT WEAR AT TOP & BOTTOM OF SPINE WITH SPINE SLIGHTLY FADED, OCCASIONAL SPOTS OF LIGHT FOXING BUT HEAVIER FOXING TO ONE BLANK FRONT ENDPAPER & LAST PAGE OF CATALOGUE, SLIGHT BROWNING TO MARGINS OF TITLE PAGE & FRONTIS
OVERALL A VERY GOOD COPY IN BETTER THAN THE USUAL CONDITION
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Date of Manufacture:
1883
location
This 1883 1st Edition Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain is located in Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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