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Are you interested in this item? This item is up for auction at Catawiki. Please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the Catawiki website. Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available. Our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store. This copy of ‘Mark Twain’s Classic Works’ features 314 illustrations by W. Fr. Brown, True Williams, B. Day and Others, including tissue-guarded frontispiece, full page, and vignettes. "With also three or four pictures made by the author of this book without outside help".
Published by Chatto & Windus, London, 1889. Publishers’ original maroon cloth with gilt titles and black embossed illustrations to the front board. Spine lettered in gilt. Back cover has black embossed "CW" decoration. Decorated endpapers.
Book Dimensions: 19.5 x 13.5 x 3.5 cm & Number of Pages: 564 including 6 Appendix + 32 of publishers’ books
Condition
Firm and well-bound book. Light wear to boards’ corners, and some rubbing and tears to head and tail of spine. Internally; the book is nice and tidy, and in very good condition. Neat inscriptions dated 1892 on top front free endpaper page. Pages are clean, with light marks to few pages. Inner hinges are very good, and pages are tightly held at gutters. All illustrations are present and bright (Please see pictures).
“A Tramp Abroad is a work of travel literature, including a mixture of autobiography and fictional events, by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880. The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph Twichell), through central and southern Europe. While the stated goal of the journey is to walk most of the way, the men find themselves using other forms of transport as they traverse the continent.
As the two men make their way through Germany, the Alps, and Italy, they encounter situations made all the more humorous by their reactions to them. The narrator (Twain) plays the part of the American tourist of the time, believing that he understands all that he sees, but in reality understanding none of it.”
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