NMLP P-020928 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) · James R. Osgood & Co. (Boston) · 1883

US first (Osgood). The flaming-urn tailpiece on page 441 is the key earliest-state point. An intermediate state retains the page 441 tailpiece but corrects the page 443 caption to 'The St. Charles Hotel'; the latest state removes the tailpiece entirely. The contemporaneous Chatto & Windus London edition is a separate issue.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-020928 for "Life on the Mississippi" by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-020928, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).