Hartford Conn: American Publishing, 1897. Second Edition [first published in 1894]. A Very Good Hardcover.

Brown cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles on spine and front. Intricate decorations in stamped black. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal shelf handling wear. Small bookplate and owner's address on the top of the front pastedown. Two stains from old cello-tape on front and rear endpages. Otherwise, a fine copy. 8vo; 9 inches tall; 432 pages; with marginal illustrations.

Very Good / No Dust Jacket Issued. Item #014729

Told in typical Twain fashion, infants switched at birth reveal their true colors genetics takes primacy over environment. Set during the early years of the 19th century, this pre-Civil War satire tackles social commentary issues still being debated today.

Twain presents the reader with a light-skinned black mother switching her infant with her white master's to prevent her own child being raised as a slave. Twain uses humor and irony in revealing seething levels of racism and classicism.

A crime novel featuring the first fictional use of fingerprints.

Price: $195.00