The adventures of Tom Sawyer / by Mark Twain.

The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town on the early nineteenth century.

"London: Printed by Spottiswoode and Co, New-Street Square and Parliament Street"--Half t.p. verso.

Binding: red cloth boards, upper cover stamped in gold and black, lower cover blind stamped.

Author inscription and title page Digital image. Wellington, N.Z. : National Library of New Zealand.

Alexander Turnbull Library Rare Book copy. Copy specific details available on request from Curator, Rare Books and Fine Printing. Binding: worn, spine covering loose; in brown cloth four flap folder with maroon goatskin spine stamped in gold. Spine title: Tom Sawyer. Provenance: author's inscription on upper pastedown: To Miss Kinsey: Age is disreputable, & a thing to be contemned - human speaking; but when an author observes the signs of it in a book of his own in another person's possession he recognizes that in that case age is a most pleasant and respectable thing. Truly yours, S.L. Clemens (Mark Twain) Nov. 15.95. Bookplate of the Sir Joseph Kinsey Bequest to Alexander Turnbull Library, 1936. on t.p. verso, and on inside front left flap of folder. Accompanied by typewritten note and transcript of inscription, with pencil corrections. Also accompanied by clipping from bookseller's catalogue, and by menu from a 'Complimentary Dinner to Geo. G. Stead, Esq. and to Isaac Gibbs, Esq, Canterbury Club, Christchurch, N.Z., Thursday, March 4, 1897'. Acc. 54073.

Digital image available: author inscription and title page, Alexander Turnbull Library Rare Book copy. Details available on request from Curator, Rare Books and Fine Printing.