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#11 American Artists EditionSome edge wear and age discoloration, illustrated end papers, frontis piece, red page tips, clean unmarked content with good binding. Brick and mortar bookshop since 1975!

Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-150 [151] [152: blank], seven inserted plates with color illustrations by N. C. Wyeth, publisher's black cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, pictorial paper onlay affixed to front panel, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition, first printing. This version of "The Mysterious Stranger" is a corrupt text, based on various fragments of the short novel left by Twain which were cobbled together by his executor, Albert Bigelow Paine. For definitive text see MARK TWAIN'S MYSTERIOUS STRANGER MANUSCRIPTS, first published in 1969 by the University of California Press. For a study of the manuscripts, see Kahn, Sholom J., MARK TWAIN'S MYSTERIOUS STRANGER: A STUDY OF THE MANUSCRIPT TEXTS (Columbia & London: University of Missouri Press, 1978). Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-344. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1614. Reginald 14361. BAL 3520. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 T-436. Private owner's bookplate affixed to the front paste-down. Cloth rubbed at spine ends and corner tips, a tight, bright, nearly fine copy. (#174393)