Binding: Original Cloth
Book Condition: Near Fine
Edition: 1st UK Edition; First Printing
Size: 8vo
Publisher: Chatto & Windus, 1897, London

[Book #34092]

A handsome First English Edition in Near Fine condition, bright gilt titles on original red cloth, top edges gilt. The English publication of Following the Equator, listed Nov. 20, 1897; "There is a possibility that this London edition was issued a few days prior to the American edition but the record is not clear". BAL 3453. [viii], [1], 2-486, [2], 32 pages of September 1897 advertisements;



Twain, in his fifth and final travel book, identifies himself as the narrator Mark Twain and tells of his world-wide expedition while on a lecture tour in 1895-1896. He primarily concentrated on his travels in India, Australia, and South Africa. Twain's daughter Suzy, who was twenty-four, had just died, and it was hoped that the lecture tour might bouy Twain's spirits, as well as improve his financial position, as he had recently suffered several financial losses