[Rarebooks] FS: Mark Twain's First Appearance in a National Publication

[Charles Agvent]

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]. "Forty Three Days in an Open Boat" in 
HARPER'S MONTHLY, December 1866 - May 1867, Volume XXXIV. New York: 
Harper & Brothers, 1866-1867. First Edition. Half dark brown morocco 
with marbled boards and matching morocco corners. 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 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. A clean, Fine 
copy. (#020947)        $350

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