Roughing It. By Mark Twain

Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1872. First edition, first issue, with the advertisement on page 592 and line of text on page 242, lines 20-21. 300 illustrations. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's 3/4 morocco binding; blind stamped decoratively and in gilt on spine; gilt edging to leather; minor overall shelf wear; corners bumped; marbled fore edges, tanned; marbled endpapers; illustrated frontispieces with tissue guard; illustrated throughout with black-and-white engravings. Fully Illustrated by Eminent Artists. First edition, first issue, with the advertisement on page 592 and line of text on page 242, lines 20-21. 300 illustrations. 1 vols. 8vo. A very (truncated) good first edition, first issue copy in the preferred, but often ragged, publisher's morocco binding. BAL 3337 (Inventory #: 369663)