The adventures of Tom Sawyer /
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
The adventures of Tom Sawyer / by Mark Twain. - Hartford, Conn. : American Pub. Co., 1876, c1875. - [102] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Salesman's dummy of the 1st American ed., containing selected pages of the text, sample binding materials mounted inside the upper cover, and, at end, blank leaves for entering orders for the complete 274-page book. The last numbered page in the sample is p. 271. This is one of the prospectus copies distributed to subscription sales agents beginning around the middle of Nov. 1876, before publication of the complete book on Dec. 8. Cf. Writing Tom Sawyer / by Charles A. Norton. 1983. P. 91.
89120664
Sawyer, Tom (Fictitious character) --Fiction.
Dummies (Bookselling)--Specimens.
PS1306 / .A1 1876b
813/.4
The adventures of Tom Sawyer / by Mark Twain. - Hartford, Conn. : American Pub. Co., 1876, c1875. - [102] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Salesman's dummy of the 1st American ed., containing selected pages of the text, sample binding materials mounted inside the upper cover, and, at end, blank leaves for entering orders for the complete 274-page book. The last numbered page in the sample is p. 271. This is one of the prospectus copies distributed to subscription sales agents beginning around the middle of Nov. 1876, before publication of the complete book on Dec. 8. Cf. Writing Tom Sawyer / by Charles A. Norton. 1983. P. 91.
89120664
Sawyer, Tom (Fictitious character) --Fiction.
Dummies (Bookselling)--Specimens.
PS1306 / .A1 1876b
813/.4