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I got this book at a small used book store here in Portland. It's from 1887 and according to the title page is, "A story of simple country life giving a humorous and entertaining picture of every day life and incidents in the rural districts, with Uncle Ben's trip to the city of Chicago and to California, and his experience with the shams and sharpers of the metropolitan world."

You can download a full copy of it here.

I really like this new version of the classic and classically difficult The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (so difficult in fact that I haven't read it yet). London-based independent publisher Visual Editions has only published two books so far, but both are the definition of books as objects-- the kind of books you not only want to read, but look at.