The adventures of Tom Sawyer
By: by Mark Twain.
Publisher: American Pub. Co.
Published: 1876
Place of publication: Hartford, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 102
Subjects: Dummies (Bookselling) -- Specimens; Sawyer, Tom (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Notes: Salesman's dummy of the 1st American ed., containing selected pages of the text, sample binding materials mounted inside the upper cover, and, at end, blank leaves for entering orders for the complete 274-page book. The last numbered page in the sample is p. 271.
This is one of the prospectus copies distributed to subscription sales agents beginning around the middle of Nov. 1876, before publication of the complete book on Dec. 8. Cf. Writing Tom Sawyer / by Charles A. Norton. 1983. P. 91.