Description: TWAIN, MARK. Life on the Mississippi. Illustrated. 8vo, original gilt-pictorial and black-stamped cloth, light wear to spine tips and corners; ownership signature, gatherings pulling on pp. 416-417. first edition, second state, without the tail-piece on p. 441 and with the hotel on p. 443 captioned as 'The St. Charles.' BAL 3411. – Boston: James R. Osgood, 1883