The adventures of Tom Sawyer
By: by Mark Twain ; the text edited and with an introduction by Bernard DeVoto, with a prologue "Boys Manuscript" printed for the first time ; illustrated with drawings by Thomas Hart Benton.
Contributors: De Voto, Bernard Augustine, 1897-1955.; Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975.; Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.; Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club at the University Press
Published: 1939
Place of publication: Cambridge [Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Sawyer, Tom (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Boys -- Fiction; Mississippi River -- Fiction; Missouri -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Notes: "Boy's manuscript ... is the earliest known use of the materials of The adventures of Tom Sawyer. It cannot be certainly dated but was probably written in 1870 or 1871"--P. 1.
"This edition consists of fifteen hundred copies"--Colophon.
LC has copy no. "copyright copy", signed by the illustrator.