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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, second state with the caption of p. 443 reading “The St. Louis Hotel” and without the tailpiece depicting the urn, flames, and head of Mark Twain. Illustrated with numerous intertextual wood engravings and plates including frontispiece. Publisher’s brown decorated cloth blocked in black and gilt (spine ends worn, tail band showing, few edges bumped, small pale white stain to front board at fore edge, upper joints cracked and starting, pencil inscription to ffep). BAL 3411.