A Tramp Abroad
Price: $1,250.00
Hard Cover. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1880. First Edition. Very Good.
First edition, first state, with "Moses" caption to frontispiece. Original publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, with brown speckled edges. Good or better, with shallow chipping to foot of spine, light toning and a touch of staining to spine, bright gilt, corners rubbed to boards, contemporary ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper, front hinge reinforced with Japanese tissue, binding slightly shaken, some staining to pages, shallow dampstaining to upper margins of frontispiece and a few plates, and light spotting to rear endpapers. Overall, a pleasing copy of the first state. BAL 3386. A Tramp Abroad is Twain's third travel book, which he said was "written by one loafer for a brother loafer to read" (The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain). Specifically, it tells the story of the author's adventures through the Alps with his fictional friend Harris. A combination of fiction and autobiography, the plot is based on Twain's summers in Europe with his family and especially his tours of the Black Forest and Switzerland with Joseph Twichell, who served as the inspiration for Harris. Item #MT117
