![]() ![]() Inspiration for multiple film, television, and theatrical adaptations, and iconic enough to inspire references in other media as well, from comic books to the popular song by Rush. Arguably the most important novel in the American literary tradition. Engraved frontispiece and illustrations throughout text. Blue cloth, gilt and black titles and decorations. Hinges weakening but still holding firmly (this edition is notoriously fragile), one gathering proud at fore edge but not sprung from binding, light creases down front free endpaper, ink name on front paste-down (James H. Unusually well-preserved (boards are often soiled and/or abraded). First edition, second issue, variant A, printed on laid paper with mispagination of prelims (BAL 3369). It is the first book of American literature in which the hero of the story is a boy.įirst edition (variant) textblock good some minor tears, a turned corner here and there, with a smudge or two laid paper showing age binding has been repaired re-backed with original laid on hinges reinforced blue cloth and gilt covers well worn, corners rounded darkened with age and handling, but intact pagination ends with 274 wood engravings in text this copy is not for the pecksniffian collector wanting to spend five figures for a mint, unopened example, never touched by human hand BUT it has a charm of its own, having brought literary excitement to generations of readers for well more than a century it is a warm copy, well deserving of being read again-and a place on a budget-minded collector's shelf To this day, it remains a cornerstone of American literature. It lies at that very special moment in history when America, having challenged its past sets off on the new adventures that will force it into the coming century and the great expansion of its democratic spirit. It, like Whitman s Leaves of Grass and Melville s Moby Dick, typifies and describes the American spirit. Tom Sawyer is now thought to be along with Huckleberry Finn, one of the great stepping stones to the modern American novel. A VERY FINE COPY OF THIS GREAT BOOK, A CORNERSTONE OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. ![]() A very fine copy, bright, clean and beautifully preserved, near as pristine and essentially as mint and unused. Large 8vo, publisher's original royal blue cloth decorated in gilt and black to the spine panel and covers in the same all over design as the first edition. ![]() With one-hundred and sixty black and white illustrations of such memorables as Injun Joe, Aunt Polly, Becky Thatcher, and of course Tom Sawyer. Early reissue of the first edition formatted and bound exactly as the first printing. ![]()
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