That Convention

[Mark Twain]. F. G. Welch. That Convention. Or, Five Days a Politician. New York and Chicago: F. G. Welch & Co., American News Company and others, 1872. First edition. Twelvemo (7.25 x 4.75 inches; 185 x 120 mm.). 184 pages. Folding frontispiece and numerous full-page and in-text illustrations by Frank Beard. Publisher's brown cloth, spine and front board stamped in gilt, boards ruled in blind; all edges of the text block trimmed; brown coated endpapers. Spine leaning gently; spine ends and corners worn with some loss of cloth; joints abraded with a minor split on the rear joint; circular damp stain on the front board in the central gilt stamping; some minor, light soiling and splashes; corners bumped. Text slightly shaken; rear hinge starting; dark stain to the rear endpapers; light marginal soiling throughout; a couple instances of over-opening, first gathering slightly sprung. About very good. An excerpt from Roughing It, "The Champion Chirography of the Modern Cincinnatus," on pages 147-155 with a portrait of Twain on page 146. BAL Clemens Section III, page 246. (#10179).