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Roughing It
by Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]
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- first
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, 1872. First Edition, First State. 591pp. Octavo [23 cm] Brown cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. About very good with rubbing and wear to extremities with the corners exposed. Complete with both frontispieces and six tipped-in plates. By the time Sam Clemens was 25 years old, he had served two apprentices as a Mississippi riverboat pilot and as a printer in his boyhood home of Hannibal and in large Eastern cities. He had shown little promise in either of these until July of 1861 when he rode the Overland Stage west with his brother Orion, recently appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory. In 'Roughing It,' Clemens wryly comments on various subjects, such as the Pony Express, Mormons and Indians, while enroute to his frontier destination. It was during this time and later, his time in California that Clemens evolved from a crude reporter into Mark Twain, a master of humor and satire. Paher 350. Flake/Draper 2431. Howes C481. Zamorano 18. Cowan p. 49. BAL 3337.
Synopsis
Roughing It is a book of semi-autobiographical travel literature written by American humorist Mark Twain. It was written during 1870–71 and published in 1872 as a prequel to his first book Innocents Abroad. This book tells of Twain's adventures prior to his pleasure cruise related in Innocents Abroad. Roughing It follows the travels of young Mark Twain through the Wild West during the years 1861–1867.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Tschanz Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8340
- Title
- Roughing It
- Author
- Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First State
- Publisher
- American Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Hartford, CT
- Date Published
- 1872
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About the Seller
Tschanz Rare Books
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Salt Lake City, Utah
About Tschanz Rare Books
We actively buy and sell books, photographs, ephemera, maps, and objects in our specialties: Utah and the Mormons, Interior West, Western National Parks, Western Indians, Railroads and Western Americana generally.
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