Twain, Mark

The £1,000,000 [Million Pound] Bank Note and Other New Stories

New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1893. First edition in book form. Hardcover. 260; 9pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] Tan cloth over boards with lettering and decorative stamping in gilt on the front cover. Black and white frontispiece illustrated by Dan Beard. Nine pages of publisher's adverts at the rear. Red staining along the rear joint and at the extremities of the binding. Cloth at the head of the spine frayed. Barely perceptible thin damp stains to the top margins of the pages. Johnson, p. 55. Very Good Minus. Item #70569

Nine short stories. The 1,000,000 Bank Note was written in 1892, while Samuel Clemens was facing financial ruin. The title story was first published in Century magazine in January 1893. The million-pound note symbolizes wealth that cannot be spent.

Price: $300.00