Life on the Mississippi

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. First Edition. First printing, first state, intermediate A (B?), with the tailpiece showing the head of Mark Twain in flames on p.441, but with the caption on p.443 reading "St. Charles." Octavo (23cm). Brown cloth stamped in black and gilt; plain endpapers; 625pp; frontispiece and in-text wood engravings. Cloth rubbed, most gilt rubbed away, binding shaken: Good.

Twain's memoir, combining an account of his time before the Civil War as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi, and his travels on the river as an adult. This issue not in McBride. BAL 3411. WRIGHT III: 1092.