NMLP P-034603 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-09

Tom Sawyer Abroad

Mark Twain · Charles L. Webster & Company (New York) / Chatto & Windus (London) · 1894

The Webster (US) and Chatto & Windus (UK) editions were issued at essentially the same time in April 1894, and no priority has been established between them. The two are not textually identical: the Webster edition follows the St. Nicholas Magazine serialization, which the magazine's editor had trimmed for a juvenile readership, while the Chatto & Windus edition was set from a fuller Clemens typescript.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-034603 for "Tom Sawyer Abroad" by Mark Twain (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-034603, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).