American Publishing Company's first edition of Tom Sawyer was produced in Hartford by the APC, but also apparently by Anton Roman in San Francisco; Roughing It was published (according to one title page) in Hartford, Chicago, Toledo, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Boston, and SF. Publishers listed for RI include APC, F G Gilman, W E Bliss, Nettleton & Co, George M Smith, and A Roman. My questions have to do with the technology and strategy of this multi-site publishing, if that's what these title pages indicate. Are these editions to be regarded as identical? Were electrotypes being shipped out from Hartford to these other publishers, or was typesetting for these various print-runs wholly or partly independent? Were completed bindings for the volumes shipped nationwide as well from a single source, or were they stamped and finished at various sites? Does anyone know when the APC began this multi-site strategy, and how many MT volumes were produced in this manner? I haven't found information about this in published sources about the APC and MT, and would be grateful for leads. Bruce Michelson University of Illinois