[Rarebooks] FS: Mark Twain's First Appearance in Print in a National Magazine, 1866

[Charles Agvent]

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]. "Forty Three Days in an Open Boat" in 
HARPER'S MONTHLY, December 1866. New York: Harper & Brothers, December 
1866. First Edition. Original printed wraps. Usually found, when at all, 
in the bound volume with other issues, this is very scarce in original 
wraps and notable for containing Mark Twain's first appearance in print 
in a national magazine, predating his first book. Published anonymously 
in the individual issues, the story is attributed in the table of 
contents in the bound volumes to "Mark Swain," as Twain had yet to gain 
national recognition, though his Jumping Frog story was just beginning 
to spread in newspapers throughout America. Housed in a gilt-lettered 
red morocco leather slipcase. Contents clean; some paper lacking at the 
spine tips and chunk lacking from rear cover repaired with tissue paper. 
Very Good and scarce in wraps, housed in a Fine slipcase. (#020385)     
$1,000

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