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Life on the Mississippi
by TWAIN, Mark
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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East Woodstock, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. First Edition, Mixed State. Large Octavo, 9 x 6 inches. Scarce in publications leather, 3/4 black leather over black pebbled cloth, gilt lettering and decorations at covers and spine, five raised bands, marbled edges, marbled end papers, more than 300 black and white illustrations, no flames at page 441, page 443 reading The St. Louis Hotel. 'Life on the Mississippi is at once a romantic history of a mighty river; an autobiographical account of Twain s early steamboat days; a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches. It is the raw material from which Mark Twain wrote his finest novel-Huckleberry Finn. It is an epochal record of America s growth, a stirring remembrance of her vanished past. And it earned for its author his first recognition as a serious writer. [This is] a book to be ranked with Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as one of the indisputably great works in the Twain canon. a book that measures the American future by the boundaries of the American past, a bridge between the world of Thomas Jefferson and the world of John D. Rockefeller.' -Leonard Kriegel. Very Good, edges worn heaviest at leather at corners, leather at spine gutters and bands worn, pages clean but agetoned a bit.
Synopsis
Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before and after the American Civil War. The book begins with a brief history of the river from its discovery by Hernando de Soto in 1542. It continues with anecdotes of Twain's training as a steamboat pilot, as the 'cub' of an experienced pilot. He describes, with great affection, the science of navigating the ever-changing Mississippi River.
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- Bookseller
- Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39267
- Title
- Life on the Mississippi
- Author
- TWAIN, Mark
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- James R. Osgood and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1883
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About the Seller
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About Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA
For the past many years this firm has strived to provide a large, high quality, and diverse collection of mostly fiction published primarily before the Second World War and with their original dustjackets. Our specialties include Photoplay Editions, Mysteries, Fantasy Literature, Plays, Romances, Westerns, Hollywood Interest, and Business Fiction. We also have a large collection of Cocktail Recipe Books, Children's Literature and 19th Century Literature. We pride ourselves on providing accurately described, high grade, and difficult to locate titles in these fiction genres.
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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