Book #34076

Mark Twain vs. The Street Railway Co

John S. Mayfield

Binding: Pamphlet
Book Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: [s. I. ]: Privately Printed, 1926.

Price: $66.45

An attractive first edition [BAL 3540] in about Near Fine condition with small cut and trivial soiling to wraps and light waterstaining to top of pages.

The case of Mark Twain vs. The Metropolitan Street Railway Company, regarding the matter of his daughter being swindled by street car conductor J. Burgess, No. 3318 in 1906. Includes facsimile letters to Owen Root, Jr Esq. , Vice President and General Manager; 8vo; 25, [3] pages; One of only a three titles by Twain issued in a numbered edition.

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.