Description:
Twain, Mark (1835-1910) Roughing It. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1872.
First American edition, octavo, illustrated with seven plates, including the extra frontispiece, ads on verso of final leaf, second state of page 242, without the word "his" on line twenty-one; bound in publisher's cloth, spine and front board stamped in gilt; binding worn at head and tail of spine and extremities, front hinge cracked, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
Estimate $300-500
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