For years, many of Twain's philosophical, religious, and historical fantasies concerning the nature and condition of humanity remained unpublished. Thirty-six of these writings make their first appearance here.
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For years, many of Twain's philosophical, religious, and historical fantasies concerning the nature and condition of humanity remained unpublished. Thirty-six of these writings make their first appearance here.
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Near fine in very good jacket. Beige cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, frontispiece in b&w, otherwise not illustrated. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked, with faint soil to edges of block. DJ has tear to spine foot, soil and mild rubbing, mild toning to spine.
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Frontis. Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. First Edition, First Printing, thus edition; 740 clean, unmarked pages. dj w/lite echiping, unclipped price, in mylar; Frontispiece portrait. This collection offers Mark Twain's outspoken pieces on such larage topics as God, providence, Christianity, and human natu re, gathered from the unpublished writing in the Mark Twain Papers, including the "Little Bessie" dialogues, in which a small girl horifies her sanctimonious mother with probing questions about the Vi rgin Birth, and a satirical tale, "The Second Advent, " which places the return of the Messiah in a sleepy Arkansas village and recounts the disastrous consequences of the miracles wrought by his disc iples; dj w/lite wear, in mylar (unclipped).