Mark Twain's Raft Passage

By Mark Twain; designed, printed and bound by Carol Cunningham, with four illustrations by Maryline Poole Adams

Mill Valley, CA; Sunflower Press, 1986. Hardcover. As new from the printer. First edition. 42 pages (paginated: iv, 1-27). Book is 2 7/8 (height) x 2 5/8 (depth) inches. A handmade miniature book. Letterpress printed in Bembo typeface with black and white and color illustrations printed using printers cuts. Handbound with red endpapers. Twenty-five are bound in black leather with gold-stamped face and name of Mark Twain, and include the ten-cent stamp of Mark Twain which was issued February 13, 1940 as well as a four-cent stamp of a steam-boat issued April 30, 1962. Both stamps are pasted in but uncancelled. The regular binding is with gray Ingres paper and has an illustration of Mark Twain in black on the cover (only 47 of these were ever bound).

Limited to 75 copies, numbered and signed by Carol Cunningham.

This edition contains text from the chapter which Mark Twain included in the first publication of Huckleberry Finn, but which was subsequently deleted from most editions published thereafter. It first appeared in his book Life on the Mississippi as a description of the colorful riverboat men who worked along the river. A rare miniature, especially of interest to the Samuel Clemens collector.

Standard: $65
Deluxe: $175