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The adventures of Tom Sawyer / by Mark Twain [pseud.]…

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Creator

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.

Title

The adventures of Tom Sawyer / by Mark Twain [pseud.] The text edited and with an introduction by Bernard DeVoto; with a prologue, "Boy's manuscript," printed for the first time; illustrated with drawings by Thomas Hart Benton.

Publisher

Cambridge [Mass.] : The University Press,

Date

1939

Description

MU: Rare copy is numbered 211 and signed by the illustrator.
This edition ... has been made for members of the Limited Editions Club. It has been designed by Carl Purington Rollins ... The edition consists of fifteen hundred copies."--Colophon.

Subject

Sawyer, Tom (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Boys -- Fiction.
Boys -- Missouri -- Fiction.

Contributor

Thomas Hart Benton was perhaps the best known muralist associated with the American Scene Painting movement of the 1930s. Benton is most closely associated with Regionalism a movement that rejected modernism in favor of a naturalistic and representational style. Source: American Studies at the University of Virginia

Language

English