[ Books ] Life on the Mississippi. Illustrated. 8vo, publisher's gilt-pictorial and black-stamped cloth, spine ends and tips rubbed with slight loss; front hinge starting, small 3-mm hole in margin of frontispiece, title lightly soiled, split between

[ Books ] Life on the Mississippi. Illustrated. 8vo, publisher's gilt-pictorial and black-stamped cloth, spine ends and tips rubbed with slight loss; front hinge starting, small 3-mm hole in margin of frontispiece, title lightly soiled, split between frontispiece and title, few center gatherings a bit sprung. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATEwith Twain's head on 441 and St. Louis Hotel on 443. BAL 3411. Boston 1883