The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)

Harper & Brothers, 1917. Later edition.

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Book: Good
Our ref: RCB-435a4bdb0e85

What we checked, and where to see itRCB-435a4bdb0e85 · 9 photographs of this copy

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True first is 1876 (Chatto & Windus / American Publishing Co.), NOT Harper & Brothers

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This is the Harper & Brothers edition illustrated by Worth Brehm, a 20th-century reprint

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examined on the copy in hand

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Harper letter/number code 'I-D' present on copyright page (a Harper date/printing code)

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Gift inscription dated Nov. 19, 1929 sets a latest-possible printing date

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Flaws, each one named

Chipping and loss to head of spine

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Fraying/wear to spine ends and corners

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Rubbing and small losses to color pictorial front cover

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Toning/staining and tanning to free endpaper around inscription

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Age-toning to text-block pages

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Gift inscription on free endpaper reduces desirability

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This copy

1917 Harper & Brothers Edition

What a true first shows: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was first published in 1876 — the English first by Chatto & Windus (London, June 1876) and the American first by the American Publishing Company (Hartford, late 1876), in cloth with in-text engravings. Any Harper & Brothers imprint, and especially this Worth Brehm-illustrated issue, is a later edition by decades.

Photographs show the exact copy you will receive. Every flaw we found is listed above; if we missed one, the return is on us.