The American Claimant

First Edition. A Comedy of Mistaken Identities. Original publisher's cloth.

New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892. With the publication date on both the title and copyright page. Appendix & 8pp. ads at rear. Bound in the original publisher's cloth, green and stamped with black illustrations and gold lettering, spine slightly darkened and gold lettering a bit faded. Corners and spine ends a bit rubbed. Illustrated throughout. Interior is clean and mostly bright but for some light toning. Octavo. 277pp. Very Good condition. 

Written with the help of phonographic dictation, Twain was the first author to utilize this medium of recording. The novel is further set apart by Twain's play on setting, a first in fictitious literature, as there is no mention of weather in the novel but for the first sentence of the second paragraph: "fine, breezy morning." Twain does, however, provide an Appendix at rear, "Weather for Use in this Book," to be referenced now and again.