Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain, First American Edition, Second State, 1883

Twain, Mark. Life on the Mississippi. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. First edition, second state. Illustrated throughout, with plates and in-text. In publisher’s brown cloth front board and spine stamped in gilt and black. Presented in a new archival slipcase.  This is a first edition, second state of Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain. Life on the Mississippi was first published in 1883 by James R. Osgood and Company. A second state, the caption on page 443 has been corrected to read, “The St. Charles Hotel.” Containing 316 illustrations throughout, Twain’s work is also decorated with the original brown cloth front board and spine, stamped in black and gilt. The book has been expertly rebacked in new cloth with spine laid down, and is protected with a new archival slipcase.  Life on the Mississippi is the memoir of Twain’s days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River. The book portrays the lives of people along the banks of the famous river. Through his anecdotes,