The author's most popular book during his lifetime, outselling what modern scholars consider his major literary works Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.īAL 3316. The book that made Mark Twain famous and the bestselling book in his lifetime The 1869 illustrated first edition featuring all the original vintage. Twain's second book after Jumping Frog, a humorous narrative of his travels through Europe and Israel with a group of American tourists on board a retired Civil War vessel. The last truly Fine copy brought $10,000 at auction (Sotheby's Library of an English Bibliophile Part II, 2011). Previous owner's bookplate on chemise of each volume.Ī common enough book, but quite scarce in this condition.
Both volumes chemised and housed together in a double, quarter morocco slipcase. Two pages of order sheets with pencil and ink orders. Some dampstaining along outer edges of second frontispiece and final two leaves. Fold-out Bible advertisement with a large closed tear, professionally repaired. Front board stamped in gilt and ruled in blind. Overall, a very bright, clean copy with no rubbing to gilt and better than usually encountered. Top of spine with a small amount of fraying. Original publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt on spine. 651 followed by five Pages of ads with "Personal History" on p. Missing page numbers in the Table of Contents on pages xvii-xviii Last entry reads "Thankful Devotion-A Newspaper Valedictory" No illustration on p. First edition, first issue with all first issue points called for by BAL 3316. Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1871, 1869. The Innocents Abroad, or the New Pilgrims' Progress the Publisher's Prospectus for The Innocents Abroad.
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