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CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (“Mark Twain”) (1835–1910). Life on the Mississippi. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. 8vo. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, INTERMEDIATE A with the tail-piece on p. 441 depicting an urn, flames, and head of Mark Twain, and the caption on p. 443 reading “The St. Charles Hotel”. Illustrated with numerous intertextual wood engravings and plates including frontispiece. Publisher’s brown decorated cloth blocked in black and gilt, original spine expertly laid down by Scott Kellar, renewed endpapers (occasional pale spotting to upper margins); an exceptionally clean copy. BAL 3411.