The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1876. First American edition, second printing. Hardcover. (XVI) 274 pages. 22 x 17.5 cm. Wood engraved frontispiece on laid paper. List of Illustrations, numerous text vignettes by True W. William's, and others. Four pages of publisher ads dated December 1st 1876. This first American edition was issued some six months after Chatto and Windus's London edition. GROLIER AMERICAN 79. "These books let fresh air into the minds of parents who had shut the door on their own childhood, and they will be classics the world over as long as there are boys." Rebacked with most of original spine laid-down, endpapers renewed. BAL issue A with mispagination to preliminaries as called for, and half-title and frontispiece on same leaf. BAL 3369. Orig. publisher blue cloth decorated in gilt and blind. Fine. Item #23475
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