Merry Tales.
TWAIN, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens].
Merry Tales.
First edition, first state of Mark Twain's Merry Tales
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co, 1892.
$450.00
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Item Number: 137246
First edition, first state with patterned endpapers, without the frontispiece portrait of Twain, and with 7 pages of undated advertisements. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. In very good condition, bookplate to the front pastedown.
"To understand America, read Mark Twain. No matter what new craziness pops up in America, I find it described beforehand by him He was never innocent, at home or abroad" (Garry Wills). Published by Charles L. Webster and Company in March of 1892 as part of their "Fiction, Fact and Fancy" series, Merry Tale contains Twain's short sketches The Private History of a Campaign That Failed, The Invalid's Story, Luck, and Mrs. Mc Williams and the Lightning, among others.
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