New York: Harper & Brothers, 1909. First Edition. "Satirical fantasy of the afterlife which mocks the follies of religious fundamentalism and the absurdities which figure in popular images of paradise" (Barron, Fantasy Literature: A Reader's Guide 3-343). Scarce in dustjacket. BAL 3511; Smith T-433. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); red cloth..... More
London: Ward, Lock & Co., [1877]. Early Printing, wrappered issue (following the first printing by Ward, Lock and Tyler). Small octavo (16.75cm); original pictorial wrappers; [viii],[1],2-142,[10]pp ads. Light wear and toning to wrappers, minute loss and a few tiny tears to spine ends, with a tiny stain and faint diagonal..... More
New York: Anti-Imperialist League, 1901. First Separate Edition. First separate edition of Twain's essay, reprinted from the February, 1901 issue of the North American Review. Twain became the vice present of the Anti-Imperialist League of New York in 1901, an organization opposed to America's seizure of Spain's empire during the..... More
Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, 1897. Second Edition. Though frequently and erroneously cited as the first fictional use of fingerprints as a method of identification (that would be Twain's "A Thumb-Print and What Came Of It" in Life on the Mississippi), Pudd'nhead Wilson "is nevertheless important because the entire plot..... More
New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. First American Edition. Later state of the text, with the following points corrected: cancel title leaf with copyright page dated 1884, p.9 with "Decides," p.13 with the illustration "Him and Another Man" listed on p.87, "with the saw" on p.57, p.283 with..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919. First Edition. A series of humorous sketches, including the title essay Twain originally wrote for the Atlantic, "apparently unironic and wisely unsigned, that modestly proposed a change in the suffrage laws. Titled "The Curious Republic of Gondour," the essay argued, in essence, that universal..... More