Fine Books & Manuscripts

CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (“Mark Twain”) (1835–1910). The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford, [et al]: The American Publishing Company, 1876. 8vo. Half-title, frontispiece, and numerous vignettes in text. Publisher’s blue cloth stamped in black and gilt (faint darkening to spine, tiny chip to tail, inner hinges cracked and starting); slipcase. With 4 pp. ads at rear. Provenance: Neva and Guy Littell (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, mixed issue: 1875 imprint on copyright and 1876 on title as in first printings, 10-point type font to “THE” on the half-title as in first printings, half-title and frontispiece on same leaf as in later printings, printed on laid paper as in later printings, front matter folio xvi is the only one present as in third printing. A BRIGHT COPY. BAL 3369; Grolier, 100 American, 79; Johnson, p. 77.