A DOUBLE BARRELLED DETECTIVE STORY

by Mark Twain pseudonym by Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne Clemens

$350 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1902. Octavo, pp. 1-2: blank 3-8 1-2 3-179 180-184: blank , seven inserted plates with illustrations by Lucius Hitchcock, printed in red and black throughout, publisher's decorated red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed, pictorial endpapers. First edition. Twain's send-up of the detective fiction genre and a sharp parody of A.

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