[Rarebooks] FS: True First Complete Edition of Mark Twain's LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI, illustrated & signed by Thomas Hart Benton

[Charles Agvent]

 From our recent Catalogue containing 105 Limited Editions Club titles.  In 
addition to what is listed among our new arrivals, we have about 300 other LECs 
cataogued on our website as well as half that number yet to be catalogued: 
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later this year a fine collection of mountain climbing titles.

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]. LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI. New  York:
Limited  Editions  Club 1944. First Edition. Octavo (6-1/4" x  9-1/2")
bound  in  dark  gray-green morocco-backed brown linen  boards  with a
lithographed  scene  by Thomas Hart Benton. The addition  of  hitherto
suppressed  passages totalling 15,000 words makes this the True  First
Complete  Edition  of  this classic work by Mark Twain with  the  text
conforming  to  the original manuscript. Edited by Willis Wagner  with
an  introduction  by Edward Wagenknecht. Designed by Will  Ransom  and
printed  by  W.  E. Rudge's Sons. Copy #604 of  1200  numbered  copies
illustrated  by Thomas Hart Benton with nearly 60 drawings,  including
the  first  color pictures by him in a book. SIGNED by the  artist  on
the  colophon page. Trace of rubbing to spine edges. Case intact  with
some  sunning. Near Fine in Good case with much chipping to the label.
                                                                $500.00

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