Twain' s account of traveling in Europe, A Tramp Abroad (1880) sparkles with the author' s shrewd observations and highly opinionated comments on Old World culture, and showcases his unparalleled ability to integrate humorous sketches, autobiographical tidbits, and historical anecdotes in a consistently entertaining narrative. An excellent example of a book notoriously difficult to obtain in fine condition due to the content of the cloth.Paperback. The cloth in excellent condition and virtually without wear, the text-block clean and tight, the hinges sound. Beautifully preserved, bright clean and very fine. Housed in a fine morocco backed foldover case, the blue morocco spine panel with raised bands gilt, the compartments of the spine with gilt ruled panels enclosing gilt tooled corner devices. Thick 8vo, publisher’s original brown cloth, pictorially decorated and lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover. Profusely illustrated throughout by Brown, Williams, Day and others and with original illustrations by Twain himself.
THIS COPY WITH A PERSONAL CARD TIPPED IN, SIGNED AND WITH ADDRESS NOTE BY MARK TWAIN AS S. Item #30391 First edition, early state with the sheets bulking to 1 5/8 inches, B state of the Frontispiece with “Titian’s Moses” opposite the engraved portrait of Twain.
This book is an experience in time travel and a splendid read for any of us serious about finding something special in the reading Mark Twain and great American literature. And so steering his imagination and ours was somehow no difficulty for this giant of the prose form. He had been a riverboat captain and could steer a boat up or down the river through snags or chutes, around islands and bends. Of these journeys, Twain was the master, seemingly never in doubt of himself or where he was going. The seemingly formless form of Twain’s most typical work is both that of storytelling and travel for like storytelling travel is made up of episodic events and encounters.” In A TRAMP ABROAD, Twain is discovering himself as a new man in a new place in time, “just as in ROUGHING IT, in its drive West, reveals its protagonist in a series of apprenticeships until he finds himself to be none other that the author in his achieved identity of Mark Twain, so HUCKLEBERRY FINN.reveals its protagonist in a series of initiations until he finds himself to be none other than.Tom Sawyer.” It has been said of Twain’s writing in this genre, that “in (a) sense, all of (the author’s) work is like a journey, if not, as in the case of HUCKLEBERRY FINN, the actual account of a journey. Copies of early states of the First Edition are scarce. FIRST EDITION, WITH AUTOGRAPH OF MARK TWAIN, A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF A SCARCE AND HANDSOME PRINTING. (Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1880).
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