Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
Size: 4to; [4], xvi, 29, [7] pages
Publisher: The Book Club of California, 1959, San Francisco

[Book #19957]

An attractive edition, limited to 450 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press (for The Colt Press) in September 1959 in black cloth backed boards, with printed paper title label to spine. Fine condition in scarce, plain dust-jacket, rather clean with three minor tears. Original 1959 purchase receipt laid in. An excellent copy;

The introduction by Frederick Anderson starts out with an epigram of then eleven-year-old Susy Clemens about her parents - "Mamma loves morals and papa loves cats". The two unfinished tales in this book are evidence of Twains lifelong love for cats