Description
The true first edition of The Price and the Pauper by Mark Twain, published in 1881 before the first American edition. Octavo, xvi, 391pp, [32pp ads]. Red cloth, title in gilt on front panel and spine. Toning to spine, with some wear to cloth and soiling from handling. Floral endpapers. Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard. Complete with 190 illustrations in text. Advertisements dated November, 1881 at rear. (BAL 3396) Bookplate of Claire Mendel affixed to front endpaper.
