Vintage Tom Sawyer Junior Deluxe Edition Mark Twain HC 1950s Richard M. Powers

Gray boards, blue spine. A riverboat steaming through clouds. Yellow frames circling Tom’s world. Inside: Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Illustrated by Richard M. Powers, in that strange mid-century palette. This is a Junior Deluxe Edition, Garden City, mid-1950s print. Crisp black type, scattered color plates, the smell of old paper still hanging on. Pages clean with light age toning. Binding tight, cover bright with only minor shelf wear. A book built for kids, but carried forward as a collector’s piece. Americana sealed in boards.
Priced to sell, but open to reasonable offers.