The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim's Progress; being some account of the steamship Quaker City's pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land; with descriptions of countries, nations, incidents and adventures as they appeared to the author
Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, 1869. Very Good-. Item #50356
Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, 1869. First Edition, First Issue. xviii,[19]-651,[5](ads)pp.; double frontispiece, fourteen leaves of plates, text illus. throughout (collated complete). Cloth worn at corners and bottom third of front joint starting to crack, hinges reinforced with old glue residue to endpapers, contemporary ownership inscription to front flyleaf effaced, textblock uniformly browned and brittle from inferior paper quality. Still a Near Very Good copy, quite scarce in the original publisher's cloth.
Account of Twain's "Great Pleasure Excursion" by steamship through Europe, the Holy Land, and Egypt. This was his second published book and the best-selling during his lifetime.
BAL 3316.
Price: $1,500.00