The gilded age
Subtitle: a tale of to-day
By: by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) and Charles Dudley Warner ; fully illustrated from new designs by Hoppin, Stephens, Williams, White, etc., etc.
Contributors: Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900.; Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: American Pub. Co.
Published: 1873
Place of publication: Hartford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 574
Subjects: Political corruption -- Fiction; Legislators -- Fiction; Speculation -- Fiction; Businessmen -- Fiction; Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Notes: BAL 3357
"Sold by subscription only."
BAL notes that this book exists in an unknown and "staggering" number of variants.
LC copy has four-leaf gathering inserted at back, with publisher's advertisements on first four pages (advertisement for Everybody's friend is in first state). The title page is in the first state and is not a cancel. Earlist printing of p. vii, p. 27, p. 247, p. 355, p. xvi, p. 246, p. 280. P. 351 is in corrected state. P. 353 in corrected state. P. 403 is earlist printing.
Source: Gift of Frances R. Friedman, June 15, 1992.