Twain, Mark [Clemens, S. L.] THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1876. First edition, first printing. Original decorated blue cloth, gilt. A very good tight clean copy, expertly recased. With a Christmas, 1876 gift inscription. The first printing was 5,000 copies, and by January, 1877, 9,879 copies had been printed and bound. Advance subscription orders called for a second printing before the day of publication, so even those very first buyers of this book stood only a fifty precent chance of getting a copy of the first printing. "For once, the natural rights of the small boy were set forth by a great writer who remembered his own childhood, when he had indeed inveigled some boys into whitewashing a fence for him, given pain-killer to his cat, teased his brother unmercifully, and continually sharpened his wits in devising ways of escaping punishment .... [this book] let fresh air into the minds of parents who had shut the door on their own childhood ..." --Grolier Hundred. Housed in a cloth slipcase. Peter Parley to Penrod, p. 43. BAL 3369. Grolier American Hundred 79.

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, is a popular 1876 novel about a young boy growing up in the antebellum South on the Mississippi River in the town of St. Petersberg, based on the town of Hannibal, Missouri.

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On Jul 20 2012, TheRealPeterGC said:

This Book about a kid with a Extraordinary adventures.

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Bookseller: Mac Donnell Rare Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 24030
Title: ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER, THE
Author: Twain, Mark [Clemens, S. L.]
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
Weight: 0.00 lbs
Keywords: GROLIER , HIGHSPOT , GREATBOOK , PPP

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