TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]

THE TRAGEDY OF PUDD'NHEAD WILSON AND THE COMEDY [OF] THOSE EXTRAORDINARY TWINS

Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's decorated rust brown cloth. With all first printing points described in BAL 3442. Profusely illustrated in the margins. Notable of course for its very early use of fingerprints in fiction to solve a crime, but also one of Twain's most philosophical works and a strong comment on a society that permits slavery. Faint rubbing to rear. Fine, tight copy and uncommon thus. Item #003664

Price: $1,250.00