"THE BANK OF ENGLAND ONCE ISSUED TWO NOTES OF A MILLION POUNDS EACH": FIRST EDITION OF TWAIN'S THE £1,000,000 BANK-NOTE, 1893
TWAIN, Mark. £1,000,000 Bank-Note and Other New Stories. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1893. Octavo, original pictorial tan cloth.
First edition of this collection of nine Twain short stories, all making their first book-form appearances, with frontispiece illustration by Dan Beard.
Includes the title story, "Mental Telegraphy," "A Cure for the Blues," "The Enemy Conquered; or, Love Triumphant," "About All Kinds of Ships," "Playing Courier," "The German Chicago," "A Petition to the Queen of England," and "A Majestic Literary Fossil." Only the story "About All Kinds of Ships" had no previous magazine appearance. With nine pages of publisher's advertisements and rear flyleaf. BAL 3436. Johnson 55-6. McBride, 158. Bookplate. Tiny importer ticket.
Tiny marginal tear to title page, faint red staining to rear board, mild toning to spine, gilt bright. A lovely, near-fine copy.