Author: TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]
Title: Following the Equator. A Journey Around the World
Description: Hartford/New York, American Publ./Doubleday, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorated blue cloth. Illustrated with a frontispiece, plates, and text engravings. BAL 3451. This copy with the preferred single Hartford imprint and the signature "11" at page 161. Mark Twain's account of his tour of the world, following the equator, visiting Hawaii, India, Australia, etc. stopping to give lectures to earn money to salvage himself from bankruptcy. Contents clean and hinges secure for this heavy book; small book label of E. C. Lovell on a front blank. Some loss of gilt to the spine but overall Near Fine .

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