THE TRAGEDY OF PUDD'NHEAD WILSON AND THE COMEDY OF THOSE EXTRAORDINARY TWINS

by Mark Twain, pseud. of Samuel L. Clemens

$400 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, 1897. Second Edition. Though frequently and erroneously cited as the first fictional use of fingerprints as a method of identification that would be Twain's A Thumb-Print and What Came Of It in Life on the Mississippi , Pudd'nhead Wilson is nevertheless important because the entire plot revolves around Pudd'nhead's courtroom explanation of the uniqueness of a person's print

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