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Mark Twain - A Tramp Abroad - 1880
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Mark Twain - A Tramp Abroad - 1880

Classic Works’ features 314 illustrations by W. Fr. Brown, True Williams, B. Day and Others, including a tissue-guarded frontispiece, full page, and vignettes. "With also three or four pictures made by the author of this book without outside help". Published by Chatto & Windus, London, UK. 1880. Publishers’ original maroon cloth with gilt titles and black embossed illustrations to the front board. Spine lettered in gilt. Back cover has black embossed "CW" decoration. Decorated endpapers. Book Dimensions: 19.5 x 13.5 x 3.5 cm & Number of Pages: 564 + 32pp Ads (dated August 1880) Condition: good for age. Spine reconditioned as showed in the photographs. Light wear to boards' corners. Pages with occasional foxing. All illustrations are present. See photographs as part of the condition. “A Tramp Abroad is a work of travel literature, including a mixture of autobiography and fictional events, by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880. The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph Twichell), through central and southern Europe. While the stated goal of the journey is to walk most of the way, the men find themselves using other forms of transport as they traverse the continent.

No. 79803539

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Mark Twain - A Tramp Abroad - 1880

Mark Twain - A Tramp Abroad - 1880

Classic Works’ features 314 illustrations by W. Fr. Brown, True Williams, B. Day and Others, including a tissue-guarded frontispiece, full page, and vignettes. "With also three or four pictures made by the author of this book without outside help".

Published by Chatto & Windus, London, UK. 1880. Publishers’ original maroon cloth with gilt titles and black embossed illustrations to the front board. Spine lettered in gilt. Back cover has black embossed "CW" decoration. Decorated endpapers.
Book Dimensions: 19.5 x 13.5 x 3.5 cm & Number of Pages: 564 + 32pp Ads (dated August 1880)

Condition: good for age.
Spine reconditioned as showed in the photographs.
Light wear to boards' corners. Pages with occasional foxing. All illustrations are present.
See photographs as part of the condition.

“A Tramp Abroad is a work of travel literature, including a mixture of autobiography and fictional events, by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880. The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph Twichell), through central and southern Europe. While the stated goal of the journey is to walk most of the way, the men find themselves using other forms of transport as they traverse the continent.


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