Nearly 130 years old (1895 publication). Complete story, not split into volumes. 651 pages (~680 including illustrations, inscription, etc). Condition is between fair and poor—there is no issue with reading, but as the pictures show, the spine is coming apart. The book is still whole and isn’t seconds from coming apart. But a lot of handling is likely to worsen the present damage. The print is not illegible or faded. It’s really quite clean as are the illustrations. Originally leather bound with remnants of the old leather still on the back but nothing on the front (the front is entirely smooth and can be re-covered). All pages are still sewn together as they were originally, but the full page illustrations have come out of the book and are in the front of it (somehow, the tissue paper separating the images has survived, which is quite amazing really…). There are 3-4 loose pages that are blank and were likely originally in-between the Library of Congress page & Twain’s inscription to his mother to keep the ink from bleeding (it did bleed but faintly—see last photo). I believe the inscription is in Twain’s original handwriting & that this is a first edition (the true first publication was in 1869 entirely in letters to a newspaper while Twain was traveling abroad in 1867 with other Americans). Desperately needs a book restorer or careful collector to restore it / keep it from falling apart further. Will be shipped with extreme care (gonna pack it like a Faberge egg).