The Christmas Fireside: The Story of a Bad Little Boy That Bore a Charmed Life. Written

by Grandfather Twain for Good Little Girls and Boys by Allen Press, Mark Twain

$750 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

Signed

Hillsborough, CA: The Allen Press, 1949. 12mo, 2 wood engravings, printed in three colors. Signed by the Allens, Dorothy & Lew in green ink in the colophon. Binding lightly rubbed; very good. § Rarest book of the Allen Press, limited to 75 copies and originally sent to friends by the Allens as a Christmas gift. Originally written by Mark Twain for the San Francisco Californian and published on December 25, 1865, the text is the mischievous morality

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