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Following the equator : a journey around the world / by Mark Twain, Samuel L. Clemens.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1898 Twain
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Journeys.
- Twain, Mark.
- Voyages around the world.
- Equator--Description and travel.
- Equator.
- Physical Description:
- 712 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Hartford, Connecticut : The American Publishing Company, MDCCCXCVIII [1898] c1897.
- Notes:
- Copyright 1897 by Olivia L. Clemens.
- "Fortieth thousand"--t.p. verso.
- Includes frontispiece of Twain signed in facsimile "Be good and you will be lonesome" and with numerous other plates (many photographs), included in pagination; illustrations are signed by Dan Beard, A.B. Frost, B.W. Clinedinst, Frederick Dielman, Peter Newell, F.M. Seinor, T.J. Fogarty, C.H. Warren, A.G. Reinhart, F. Berkeley Smith, C. Allan Gilbert.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Exhibited: "The decorated book: continuing a tradition," at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 2011-2012.
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of: Evan H. Turner (2006), from the collection of Professor Albert Morton Turner (1890-1976).
- Athenaeum copy inscribed: Frank Hoogs with Christmas greetings from his Mama. Dec. 25/[19]03; also with bookplate: Frank L. Hoogs' Library; copy bound in publisher's blue cloth binding with pictorial label of elephant on front cover.
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