Square 8vo (216 x 166 mm). Lithographic frontispiece by E. W. Kemble, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 1), illustrations in text. (Marginal tear on portrait frontispiece, minor marginal toning or soiling.) Original green gilt-decorated pictorial cloth (front hinge cracked, minor wear and fraying to spine ends and corners); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: Martin B. Stern (gift inscription on front flyleaf, dated “April 18th 1885”); Barry Moser (bookplate).

 

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, early state, with the following issue points: the title leaf in the second state; the frontispiece in the first state; first state of p. 13 with "Him and Another Man" plate listed as being on p. 88; first state of p. 57 with “was” for “saw”; third state of pagination on p. 155 (the final “5” larger); third state of p. 283; with final blank 23/8. BAL 3415; Johnson, p.43-50.