Life on the Mississippi

First American edition, second state (lacking the tail-piece on page 441 and the caption on page 443 reading 'The St. Charles Hotel)'. Octavo (8.75 x 6 inches; 222 x 152 mm). 624, [2, blank] pages. Frontispiece; full-page and in-text illustrations. Publisher's brown pictorial cloth with spine and front stamped in gilt and black; all text block edges trimmed; light grayish-brown endpapers. Trivial shelf-wear to the edges of the boards and spine ends; gilt decoration remains vibrant and intact. A fine, tight and handsome copy. BAL 3411. From the A.D. Andrews Collection of Southern and Natural History. A lovely copy of this Twain classic.