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THE LETTERS OF QUINTUS CURTIUS SNODGRASS; by Mark Twain, eedited by Ernest E. Leisy

by TWAIN, Mark

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First edition

Dallas: SMU Press, 1946. First Edition. 8vo, pp. xii, 76. A very good copy without dj. BAL 3575. The first appearance of 6 letters. Bookseller and Twain scholar Kevin Macdonnell notes: " Twain's supposed authorship ofthese letters, first published in a newspaper in1861, has been disproved. Cf. Allan Bates'sUniversity of Chicago dissertation and ClaudeBrinegar's article in `Journal of the American Statistical Association (March, 1963, 58:85-96).NOT to be confused with Twain's Thomas JeffersonSnodgrass letters of 1856-57.

  • Publisher: SMU Press
  • Year: 1946
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Binding: unknown

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