Life on the Mississippi
by Mark Twain
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At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Twains early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, here is the raw material from which Mark Twain wrote his finest novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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BAL 3411
First variant of the first American edition, having an illustration on page 441, showing Mark Twain in flames, which was omitted at the request of Mrs. Clemens, in further printings of the same date. Cf. Merle Johnson. A bibliography of the work of Mark Twain, 1910, p. 57.
"Sold by subscription only."
BAL notes two states of p. 443. First state caption reads: The St. Louis Hotel; "first state, intermediate A (B?)" caption reads: The St. Charles Hotel.
LC copy in library binding; caption of p. 443 reads: The St. Louis Hotel.
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