hard cover pale green cloth cover title at the top of front cover reads: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer looks like maybe blue color print, directly in the center below the title is a what appears to be a stamped likeness of Mark Twain with a circle around it, the binding is pretty faded but may have been a gold color or it is just very very faded. same title at top of binding authors name farther down and at bottom of binding one of publishers (Gosset & Dunlap) at the very bottom of binding, the pages are pretty brittle the very first page is blank but its a little tattered but all the pieces of pages are still there, the rest of the pages are discolored and the edges of the pages look sort of thick but are 99.9% intact the binding it starting to fray at each edge. on the inside page where the published dates are it says est 1817 and the last published date is 1920, there are 290 numbered pages the conclusion page is not numbered.