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050 0 0 _aPS1306
_b.A1 1876b
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100 1 _aTwain, Mark,
_d1835-1910.
240 1 0 _aAdventures of Tom Sawyer.
_kSelections
245 1 4 _aThe adventures of Tom Sawyer /
_cby Mark Twain.
260 _aHartford, Conn. :
_bAmerican Pub. Co.,
_c1876, c1875.
300 _a[102] p. :
_bill. ;
_c23 cm.
500 _aSalesman'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.
500 _aThis 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.
600 1 0 _aSawyer, Tom
_c(Fictitious character)
_vFiction.
650 0 _aDummies (Bookselling)
_vSpecimens.
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