CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain") (1835-1910). Following the Equator. A Journey Around the World. Hartford and New York: American Publishing Co.; Doubleday & McClure Co., 1897.

8vo. Frontispiece, title-page, sample text, illustrations, and advertisements. (Offsetting to front free endpaper from leather samples.) Original dark blue cloth stamped in blue and gilt, color illustration on upper cover, design of the original spine stamped in gilt on rear cover, leather spine samples on front pastedown (extremities rubbed, spine a bit darkened).

RARE PUBLISHER'S PROSPECTUS SAMPLE OR SALESMAN'S DUMMY FOR THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Second state with the list of illustrations present, and the contents leaves ending at p. 18 (they end at p. 12 in the first state); the photograph of Twain with Livy and Clara is not present (it was present in the first state but Twain objected to any photographs of his family appearing in the book). BAL 3451.