Tom Sawyer Abroad

Mark Twain [Samuel L. Clemens]. Tom Sawyer Abroad. By Huck Finn. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1894. First edition. Octavo (8.875 x 5.75 inches; 200 x 145 mm.). [2, blank], [2, half-title (verso blank)], 219, [1, blank], [4, ads], [2, blank] pages. Full-page frontispiece and twenty-four full-page illustrations by Dan Beard. Publisher's light gray pictorial cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt and stamped in black and orangish-brown (BAL state A, sequence unknown). Covers a little darkened with some mild soiling; spine very slightly askew with a shallow furrow near the front joint; spine ends lightly worn; corners tapped. Text block over-opened in a few places; endpapers a little foxed with a few stray fox marks or other minor blemishes throughout, mostly in the margins; contemporary gift inscription in pencil on the preliminary blank. Very good. A science-fiction story in the vein of Jules Verne. BAL 3440. (#10108).