From Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
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New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1909. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black and white. First Edition. This fascinating piece begins, "Well, when I had been dead about thirty years, I begun to get a little anxious. Mind you, I had been whizzing through space all that time, like a comet.". Twain's vision of Heaven, and the journey required to get there, subverts most of the traditional Christian views of the place. The Heaven presented by Twain is a lot like that presented by Elizabeth Stuart in THE GATES AJAR, which Twain had read years before, and which he mentions in the text [MacDonnell]. In this copy the sheets bulk 5/8", the thickest of three variants (priority if any unknown). This is a near-fine copy with scarcely any wear or soil (a tiny mark at the lower rear cover); the spine is less faded than usual, and the "white flaking" is very limited. Blanck 3511; McBride p. 234. Seller Inventory # 15555
Bibliographic Details
Title: EXTRACT FROM CAPTAIN STORMFIELD'S VISIT TO ...
Publication Date: 1909
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
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