How To Tell A Story And Other Essays - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne Clemens

A bright First Edition/First Printing copy in Fine condition in the original red cloth with limited rubbing along cover and spine, uncut pages, top edges gilt, error "ciper" for "cipher" on p. 187, line 16, 2 pages of advertisement in back [BAL 3449]. Scarce in this condition;

Mark Twain's series of essays describing his own writing style, attacking the idiocy of a fellow author, defending the virtue of a dead woman, and trying to protect ordinary citizens from insults by railroad conductors.

Price: $1,100.00

Book #13547
How To Tell A Story And Other Essays - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Binding: Original Cloth
Book Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Size: 8vo
Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897.

Author Bio

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), pen name Mark Twain, was American humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and was called "the father of American literature" by American author William Faulkner.