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Author Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.

Title Life on the Mississippi, by Mark Twain [pseud.] With more than 300 illustrations. <Sold by subscription only.>

Imprint Boston, J. R. Osgood, 1883.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections  817.4 C591li, 1883    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 624 p. front., illus., plates. 23 cm.
Note Title vignette.
First American edition.
The first copies contained an illustration, p. 441, showing Mark Twain in flames, which was omitted, at the request of Mrs. Clemens, in further printings of same t.-p. date. cf. Merle Johnson, A bibliography of the work of Mark Twain, 1910, p. 57. In the present issue the illustration is omitted.
Subject Mississippi River -- Description and travel.
Mississippi River Valley -- Social life and customs.

 
    
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