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366 pp., blank leaf. Double frontispiece (including portrait), plus numerous wood engravings throughout. 21.4x16.5 cm. (8½x6½,") original decorative green cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt and black. First American Edition.

A landmark of American literature, this copy exhibiting the following issue points: title leaf is a cancel with copyright notice dated 1884 (second state, but the first state was only seen in a prospectus and set of advance sheets); the illustration captioned "Him and another Man" [p.13] listed at p.88 (first state); 11th line from bottom of p.57 reads "...with the was..." (first state); p. 283 is a cancel, with corrected engraving (third state); the final 5 in p.155 is not present (first or second state, sequence undetermined); leaf 23-8 is present; first state of the frontispiece portrait (imprint of Heliotype Printing Co., tablecloth clearly visible). BAL 3415.