1947 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

Camden Classics series. With a letter from the publisher on company headed paper. Illustrated throughout. A novel about a boy named Tom Sawyer, growing up along the Mississippi River. Set in the 1840s in the town of St. Petersburg, which is based on Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy, the novel follows Sawyer on several adventures with his friend Huckleberry Finn. Written by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, an American writer, humorist, and essayist praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced,". Illustrated by John Keith Vaughan, a British painter. With an introduction from Graham Hutton, a British editor.