A Tramp Abroad 2 Volume by Mark Twain - 1880

London: Chatto and Windus, 1880. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. A Tramp Abroad is a 2 volume book which is in the original cloth. Mark Twain A Tramp Abroad is in the original binding which is green with black decorations to the front boards, back boards and to the spines, with gilt lettering to the spines. Volume 1 is in Very Good condition with corner knocks, knocks to the top and bottom of the spine and light marks. Volume 2 is in the same condition. Volume 1 has 328 numbered pages, edges untrimmed, with blue floral endpapers on a white background, with a frontispiece illustration of Mark Twain smoking a pipe beneath which is a facsimile signature of Mark Twain. The pages are in overall Very Good condition with a name in a neat hand applied to the top of the Title Page from a previous owner. Volume 2 has 304 numbered pages plus 32 pages of advertisements to the end of the book. The endpapers are also of a blue floral design on a white background. In Volume 2 pasted onto the page opposite the Title Page is a contemporary newspaper article of Mark Twain’s famous speech in German given at Vienna on 31st October 1897. The title of the newspaper article is “Mark Twain’s Great Achievement Speaks in German at Vienna” and reads (in part): “Mark Twain last night received a splendid ovation from the literary world of Vienna at a “festkneipe”, a sort of free and easy banquet given by the “Concordia” Association of Writers and Journalists.” It was during Mark Twain’s tour of Europe that it was misreported that he had died to which an amused Mark Twain famously quoted as saying: “The report of my death was an exaggeration.” As a result of the article there is light offsetting to the Title Page. But, this is an important and rare Mark Twain article from the time. All other pages are in Very Good condition.

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