Research Catalog
Life on the Mississippi
- Title
- Life on the Mississippi, by Mark Twain. With more than 300 illus.
- Author
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
- Publication
- Boston, J. R. Osgood, 1883.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Restricted use | Arents S 1375 | Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Restricted use | 8-*KL (Clemens, S. L. Life on the Mississippi. 1883 (1st ed., 1st issue)) | Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Restricted use | *KL (Clemens, S. L. Life on the Mississippi. 1883 (1st ed., 1st issue)) | Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 |
Details
- Description
- 624 p. illus.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Note
- Blanck 3411 (1st state) /
- "Q. What do you smoke [in the spirit world]? A. We do not smoke": p. 483. Other brief references to tobacco; several illus. depicting smokers.
- Illustrations by Harley and others.
- The publisher's file copy, with author's ms. notes to the publisher, annoted proof sheets, etc. bound in. Also bound in: additional copy of the subsequently cancelled sig. 28 (with illus. depicting the author in flames, p. 441); original brown cloth covers, with label "Publisher's first-edition copy"; "The suppressed chapter of Life on the Mississippi" ([New York, ca. 1913] [4] p. Blanck 3519. No. 250 of 250 copies printed); "Mark Twain's missing chapter, by Caroline Ticknor" (from the Bookman, v. 39 (May 1914) p. 298-309). Inserted: table of contents to the additional material ([2] l.); original drawing for the p. 441 illus.
- Binding, by P. B. Sanford, of half red morocco.
- Provenance: Carroll Atwood Wilson (bookplate).
- Call Number
- Arents S 1375
- OCLC
- NYPG794641920-B
- Author
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
- Title
- Life on the Mississippi, by Mark Twain. With more than 300 illus.
- Imprint
- Boston, J. R. Osgood, 1883.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- Arents S 1375*KL (Clemens, S. L. Life on the Mississippi. 1883 (1st ed., 1st issue))8-*KL (Clemens, S. L. Life on the Mississippi. 1883 (1st ed., 1st issue))