Life on the Mississippi (The Heritage Press)

xxviii, 418 pp. 8vo. Twain's classic memoir, with color plates by Thomas Hart Benton, an introduction by Edward Wagenknecht, and a number of previously suppressed passages, now printed for the first time, and edited with a note by Willis Wager. "A memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War, and also a travel book, recounting his trip along the Mississippi River from St. Louis to New Orleans many years after the War."