Warner

1874 · 34529 — Hartford: American Publishing Co. 1874. First edition First State with Eschol Sellers p. vii; and all other first issue points but for 352 and 353 pp. Fully Illustrated throughout with designs by various artists and with a long folding plate being the “map†of the “Salt Lick Branch of the Pacific Rail Roadâ€. 8vo publisher's original brown cloth the upper cove and spine lettered and decorated in gilt. xvi 574 2 pp. A very good copy especially well preserved internally clean the binding is in pleasing condition with minor age or wear and remains tight and in good order. FIRST EDITION. The book that gave the era it’s name and Mark Twain’s first novel written in collaboration with Charles Dudley Warner. Twain and Warner started this book on a dare after being teased by their wives that Twain could not repeat the success of INNOCENTS ABROAD. Twain proposed that he and Warner write a book together and “we will so interweave our work that these wives of ours will not be able to say which part has been written by Mark Twain and which by Charles D. Warner.†Not only did they fool their wives but realized halfway through that they had something well worth publishing. THE GILDED AGE was born. <br> The tale of Colonel Sellers and the Hawkins family and their determined pursuit of Wealth--a novel for which an entire era was named. American Publishing Co. hardcover