Christian Science, With Notes Containing Corrections to Date

  • New York: Harper and Brothers, 1907
By TWAIN, Mark
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1907. First Edition. First printing: with "Published February, 1907," with the correct number of titles in the boxed advertisement; the list of illustrations set in 8 lines; a perfect r in "farm-houses" on p.3, and the standard W in "Why," p.5; and the first state of the frontispiece, captioned 1906. Octavo (20cm). Red cloth, stamped in gilt on front, titled in gilt on spine; plain endpapers; [vi],362pp; boxed advertisement to copyright page; frontispiece and two inserted plates. A straight copy, spine dulled and gently rubbed, small inkstain to front board, signs of erased inscription to f.f.e.p., else internally clean: Very Good. Stories and essays critical of Mary Baker Eddy and the excesses of Christian Science practitioners. BAL3497. JOHNSON p.87-9. MCBRIDE p.228.

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