A MURDER, A MYSTERY, AND A MARRIAGE

by Mark Twain pseudonym . Foreword and Afterword by Roy Blount Jr. Illustrations by Peter de Sève by Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne Clemens

$35 · Offered by L. W. Currey

New York, London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001 . Octavo, illustrations, two-part boards. First published edition. Written in 1876 and first published posthumously and illegally in an edition of sixteen copies in 1945. An ironic fantasy concerning the fate of French balloonist Jean Mercier, an inventor and mechanic, who in an evil hour ... fell into the hands of a Monsieur Jules Verne, an author who paid Mercier to

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