Extract From Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
Twain, Mark
From Douglas Park Media, Brunswick, ME, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since July 17, 2019
From Douglas Park Media, Brunswick, ME, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since July 17, 2019
About this Item
Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1909, 1909. Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 121 pages with tissue guarded frontispiece illustrated by Albert Levering. Octavo (8" x 5/12") bound in publisher's red cloth with cream lettering to spine (barely discernible) and cover, pictorial cover of a sea captain riding a spherical rocket ship through space done in black, grays and white. (BAL 3511; McBride 234) First American edition. Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven is a short story that appeared in print in Harper's Magazine in December 1907 and January 1908, and was published in book form with some revisions in 1909. Captain Stormfield was inspired by Captain Edgar Wakeman, a sea captain Twain met in 1866; Wakeman's eccentric character and personality made a tremendous impact on the young man, and he is the model for several Twain characters besides Stormfield; Wakeman's retelling of a dream he had in which he visited heaven was the source for the story. Originally written in 1868, the year Twain heard about Wakeman's dream, the story went unpublished over the next three decades, with slight changes made by the author during that period. Twain's vision of Heaven, and the journey required to get there, subverts most of the traditional Christian views of the place. Corners bumped, spine soiled and sunned, head and tail fraying, previous owner's name in neat ink script on front end papers. End papers show some soiling; with the exception of a good smudge at p 109 text block shows just moderate occassional soiling. No dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 2012-002
Bibliographic Details
Title: Extract From Captain Stormfield's Visit to ...
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York
Publication Date: 1909
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: 1st Edition
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