7/8/2023 0 Comments A tramp abroad first edition![]() ![]() _DESCRIPTION: Bound in the publisher's full sheepskin binding, black leather spine label with gilt lettering, edges sprinkled brown, pale salmon endpapers, second state portrait frontispiece, second state illustrated frontispiece ("Titian's Moses"), tissue guard between author portrait frontispiece and illustrated frontispiece, illustrations throughout the text octavo size (8 7/8" by 6") pagination: -xvi, 17-631. ![]() Rife with typical Twain humor, the narrator "believe(s) that he understands all that he sees, but in reality understand(s) none of it" (n.b., above info from Wiki). "A Tramp Abroad" was published in 1880, about fifteen years after Twain's first published work, and is a mixture of autobiography and fictional events as the author and his companion (the Reverend Joseph Twichell, named Harris in the book) make their way across 19th-century Europe. Item #22110301 Mark Twain (1835-1910, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens) truly needs no introduction his many stories have become part of American culture - in fact, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is often referred to as "the great american novel". First printing, second state double frontis (portrait and illustration), octavo size, 632 pp., in publisher's sheepskin binding. ![]()
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