Life on the Mississippi
By: by Mark Twain ; with more than 300 illustrations.
Contributors: Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: James R. Osgood and Co.
Published: 1883
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 624
Subjects: Pilots and pilotage -- Mississippi River; Mississippi River -- Description and travel; Mississippi River Valley -- Social life and customs
Notes: BAL 3411
First variant of the first American edition, having an illustration on page 441, showing Mark Twain in flames, which was omitted at the request of Mrs. Clemens, in further printings of the same date.  Cf. Merle Johnson. A bibliography of the work of Mark Twain, 1910, p. 57.
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BAL notes two states of p. 443. First state caption reads: The St. Louis Hotel; "first state, intermediate A (B?)" caption reads: The St. Charles Hotel.
LC copy in library binding; caption of p. 443 reads: The St. Louis Hotel.
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