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Record ID marc_records_scriblio_net/part20.dat:183871317:1176
Source Scriblio
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LEADER: 01176cam 2200229 a 4500
001 89120664
003 DLC
005 20040316104619.0
008 890309t18761875ctua 000 1 eng
010 $a 89120664
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aPS1306$b.A1 1876b
082 00 $a813/.4$220
100 1 $aTwain, Mark,$d1835-1910.
240 10 $aAdventures of Tom Sawyer.$kSelections
245 14 $aThe adventures of Tom Sawyer /$cby Mark Twain.
260 $aHartford, Conn. :$bAmerican Pub. Co.,$c1876, c1875.
300 $a[102] p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
500 $aSalesman's dummy of the 1st American ed., containing selected pages of the text, sample binding materials mounted inside the upper cover, and, at end, blank leaves for entering orders for the complete 274-page book. The last numbered page in the sample is p. 271.
500 $aThis is one of the prospectus copies distributed to subscription sales agents beginning around the middle of Nov. 1876, before publication of the complete book on Dec. 8. Cf. Writing Tom Sawyer / by Charles A. Norton. 1983. P. 91.
650 0 $aDummies (Bookselling)$xSpecimens.
650 0 $aSawyer, Tom (Fictitious character)$vFiction.