The American Claimant par Mark Twain, soldes 1892 - 1ère édition

TWAIN, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens). The American Claimant. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1892.

First edition. Octavo (8 x 5 1/2 in.). 277, [1, blank], [8, adv.] pp. Frontispiece, twenty three black and white text illustrations.

Original green pictorial cloth with gilt title also on binding. Light wear on cover and back. Pages clean. Tight to spine but there are a couple of places that look to be starting to separate. Very good/fine.

Twains novel about frustrated and unsuccessful inventor, Colonel Sellers, who originally appeared in The Gilded Age. Illustrations by Dan Beard.