Life on the Mississippi. by TWAIN, Mark - 1883: With more than 300 illustrations. Sold by Subscription Only.

Boston: James R. Osgood,, 1883. Quarto. Original brown cloth, blocked and lettered in gilt and black to spine and front board, pale grey endpapers, edges gilt (the gilt edges constituting a deluxe issue). Illustrated frontispiece, steamboat vignette to title page, illustrated plates and vignettes in the text throughout. Spine ends and board edges slightly rubbed, gilt bright and sharp, contents clean; an attractive copy in very good condition. First US edition; second state, with no illustrated tail-piece on page 441, and the caption on page 443 reading "The St Charles Hotel" changed from the first state "The St Louis Hotel". An attractive copy of Clemens's classic anecdotal travel narrative, which contains an autobiographical account of his childhood experiences, as well as his life on the river as a steamboat pilot. Huck Finn makes a lengthy cameo on pages 42-61, a story within the chapter detailing Huck and Jim's attempt to reach Cairo which does not appear in Huckleberry Finn, published two years later. BAL 3411; Johnson, pp. 41-43.