Mark Twain: San Francisco Correspondent. Selections from His Letters to the Territorial Enterprise, 1865-1866

by Twain, Mark

$250 · Offered by Biblio

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1957 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Limited to 400 copies printed by The Allen Press. Edited by Henry Nash Smith and Frederick Anderson. 120pp. Two portraits, one plate. Printed throughout in red and black. Linen-backed decorated boards, spine lettered in red. Spine slightly darkened, bookplates on inner cover and front free endpaper. A fine copy. Mark Twain s exuberant reporting for the famous Virginia City, Nevada, newspaper on a score of subjects, most relating to San Francisco. These articles were discovered in a scrapbook compiled by the author s brother, Orion Clemens, the original newspaper files having been destroyed. No other copies of the letters are known to have survived. From the collection of Gee Gee Bland Platt, trailblazing San Francisco preservationist, with her bookplate. [Allen: 20; Book Club: 95]..

• Publisher: The Book Club of California
• Year: 1957
• Printing: later
• Binding: hardcover

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