Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine
Edition: 1st US Edition; First Printing
Size: 12mo; [1-7], 8-28, [4] pages
Publisher: Mutual Book Company, c1900, Boston

[Book #19382]

A beautiful First American Edition and first separate edition in its first state, BAL 3465, originally published in London in 1887, in about Fine condition, traces of erased (bookseller?) notations on front endpaper. Laid paper in original green cloth, stamped in black and red;

With the biographical sketch of Twain by Matthew Irving Lans.

From the 1901 publication of The New York Times: "True humor of the unconscious type is never out of date. 'English as She Is Taught' is as natively diverting as its Portuguese forerunner 'English as She Is Spoke'."