A Chaparral Christmas Gift. Author’s Autograph Manuscript, signed “O. Henry”

by William Sydney Porter

$25,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Signed

Published in Ainslee’s Magazine, December 1903; collected in Whirligigs 1910 . Pencil on paper, rectos only, signed in ink on the first page, with a few ink corrections, and occasional copy editing marks, including at head: “Rush”. 26 ff. on guards. 1 vols. 8-1/4 x 6-1/4 inches 21 x 15.5 cm . Full red morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, added title page in typescript. Manuscript pages with single closed stab hole from compositor’s spike, old fold,

• Binding: Leather

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