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Item Details
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| Author: |
Twain, Mark |
| Title: |
The Suppressed Chapter of "Life on the Mississippi" |
| Place: |
[New York] |
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| Date: |
[c.1913] |
| Item # : |
183832 |
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| Sale Number |
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364 |
| Lot Number |
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287 |
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| Fine Literature of the 19th & 20th Centuries, with the David Oakey Collection of Gary Snyder |
| Sale Date |
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09/27/2007 |
| Price realized |
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$ 920 |
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| Description: |
| 4 pp., single folded sheet. 8½x5½. No. 137 of 250 copies. First Edition. |
| First publication of this chapter which was omitted from the original 1883 publication of Life on the Mississippi. Its suppression, and subsequent publication, was described by Caroline Ticknor in The Bookman of May 1914: "While The Life on the Mississippi was going to press, it was decided to omit Chapter 48... which it was thought might have a detrimental effect upon the Southern buyer. This chapter was set up and then cancelled in proofs, and its existence was from that time forgotten until after the writer's death, when the original manuscript copy of this omitted portion was found in the possession of its publlisher... During the chapter's journey to its last resting place in a famous collection, a copy of it was made without a 'by your leave'... and this petty piracy resulted in the production of a little printed leaflet, which is at present fluttering though the book-collecting world commanding a fictitious price." |
| Condition: |
| Faint marginal darkening/soiling, ¼" tear at top edge, else very good. |
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