Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Size: 8vo; [2], 411, [1] pages
Publisher: James R. Osgood and Company, 1882, Boston

[Book #19699]

First American Edition, issued in late 1881, some days after the London and Montreal editions, green cloth binding with plain edges, bright gilt decorations, Franklin Press imprint on copyright page. Binding State A with leaf <26>8 used as pastedown at back, BAL 3402 and first state errors on pages 124, 263, and 362 (Blanck, Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 65-6). Only light rubbing to edges, pages are clean. A Nearly Fine copy of a scarce title ;

Mark Twain's first historical fiction, later followed by A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Set in 1547, Twain tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive father in Offal Court, London, and Prince Edward, son of Henry VIII of England