[Rarebooks] [ABAA Books] The Gilded Age by Mark Twain

[Pia Oliver]

TWAIN, Mark (CLEMENS, Samuel L.) and WARNER, Charles Dudley.  The 
Gilded Age. A Tale of To-Day. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 
1874. Illustrated by Hoppin, Stephens, Williams, White and others. 
The large foldout illustration "Map of the Salt Lick Branch of the 
Pacific R.R." is present.
Royal octavo, original brown cloth, decoratively stamped in gilt, 
spine lettered in gilt, publisher's logo blind-stamped on back cover. 
Spine ends, lower corners and edges a bit rubbed, spine heel with 
slight loss of cloth, rear hinge a little shaken and endpapers split 
over joint, name rubber stamped on pastedowns and at one chapter 
heading, internally clean. First edition, an early issue. The 
earliest issue of this bibliographically complex book has repeated 
lines on pp. 140-141 and 351-152-353, with a title page dated 1873 
and is rarely found. The present copy, bound without advertisements, 
has the following points that are necessary to an early issue: Lack 
of an illustration - "tail piece"- on page 403; list of illustrations 
ending with "No. 211 Alice" on page xi; Eschol Sellers (not Beriah) 
throughout the book, especially in the list of chapters.
"The Gilded Age was Twain's first novel and was co-authored by his 
neighbour and fellow author, Charles Dudley Warner. It tells the epic 
story of Colonel Sellers and the Hawkings family in their relentless 
and convoluted pursuit of wealth, and their very American concept of 
wealth as a worthy end in itself. Wealth eluded them, often with 
tragic results, and the title of the novel became the name of the era 
it describes." -McDonnell.
The name of Colonel Eschol Sellers was changed to Beriah fairly early 
on since a man by that name appeared and protested its use . [BAL 
3357].		$750.00

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