Life on the Mississippi
By: by Mark Twain [pseud.]  With more than 300 illustrations
Edition: 1st Amer. ed
Publisher: J. R. Osgood
Published: 1883
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 624
Subjects: Mississippi River -- Description and travel; Mississippi River Valley -- Social life and customs
Notes: Title vignette

BAL 3411; McBride. Mark Twain, p. 85

The first copies contained an illustration, p. 441, showing Mark Twain in flames, which was omitted, at the request of Mrs. Clemens, in further printings of same t.-p. date. cf. Merle Johnson, A bibliography of the work of Mark Twain, 1910, p. 57.  In the present issues the illustration is omitted

Library's c. 1 BAL 1st state, intermediate B; c. 2 2nd state

Special Collection copy 1 with name and date, July 28th, 1887, on front fly leaf