The REAL TOM SAWYER.
[New York]: [Harper & Brothers], [1917]. 1st printing. OCLC records 4 holding institutions. Unpaginated, though 13 pages of text [including inner rear wrapper]. "Kipling Meets Mark Twain", p. 13. Illustrated. 9-1/8" x 6". Printed paper wrappers, stapled. Front wrapper with image of a seated Twain, in his white suit, cigar in mouth, holding a kitten in his lap. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. General wear. Age toning. Very Good. Item #40830
"The story in this book is made up of extracts from the 'Life of Mark Twain,' by Albert Bigelow Paine, published by Harper & Brothers. In reading the following remember that Tom Sawyer was Mark Twain (whose real name was Sam Clemens) - Sid Sawyer was Henry Clemens - and Huck Finn was Tom Blankenship."
The Kipling piece apparently first published in the New York Herald, 1890 (cf. Richards, C513).
Price: $125.00