WVU Libraries: Mark Twain

The American Claimant
RARE BOOK ROOM
817
C591am2
Dayton

Main Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Contributor(s): Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941.
Hurst, Hal, 1865-
Title: The American claimant, by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) With 81 illustrations by Dan Beard and Hal Hurst.
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus, 1892.
Description: xi, 258 p. incl. front., illus. 20 cm.
Notes: First English edition.
Advertisements, 32 pages, at end dated May, 1892.
Bound in red cloth.
Johnson, M. De V. A bibliography of the works of Mark Twain, p. 53.

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