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Description: First American edition, early issue. Octavo, 366 pp. With inserted frontispiece portrait and wood-engraved text illustrations.The present copy with the following points: the title-page is a cancel, with the copyright notice dated 1885 (BAL first state, only noted in publisher's prospectuses and advanced sheets); p. [13], the illustration captioned "Him and another Man" is incorrectly listed as at p. 88 (BAL first state); p. 57, the eleventh line from the bottom reads "with the was" instead of "with the saw" (BAL first state); p. 283 is a cancel, with the engraving redone and the line indicating the fly on Silas Phelps's trousers a straight vertical line (BAL third state, the earliest known to appear in cloth-bound copies of the book); p. 155, the final "5" extends below the preceding figures (BAL third state); the final leaf (238) has been excised; the frontispiece portrait has the imprint of the Heliotype Printing Co. and the tablecloth, or scarf, on which the bust rests is clearly visible (BAL first state). The misprint "Decided" on page 9 later changed to "Decides" (not noted by BAL). Original dark green cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt and black on front cover and spine. Original pale peach endpapers. Minimal rubbing to spine ends. A truly superb copy. BAL 3415. Grolier, 100 American, 87. Johnson, Twain, pp. 43-50. McBride, pp. 92-112.

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p. [13], the illustration captioned "Him and another Man" is incorrectly listed as at p. 88 (BAL first state); p. 57, the eleventh line from the bottom reads "with the was" instead of "with the saw" (BAL first state); p. 283 is a cancel, with the engraving redone and the line indicating the fly on Silas Phelps's trousers a straight vertical line (BAL third state, the earliest known to appear in cloth-bound copies of the book); p. 155, the final "5" extends below the preceding figures (BAL third state); the final leaf (238) has been excised; the frontispiece portrait has the imprint of the Heliotype Printing Co. and the tablecloth, or scarf, on which the bust rests is clearly visible(BAL first state). The misprint "Decided" on page 9 later changed to "Decides" (not noted by BAL).

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