Description
First edition of The £1,000,000 Bank-Note and Other New Stories by Mark Twain.
Octavo, [8], 9-260pp, [2], 9pp advertisements. Tan cloth, title in gilt on spine, illustrations on front cover. Red stain to rear panel, impact limited to cloth. No impact to endpapers or text block. Includes half title, with advertisements at rear. Frontispiece by Dan Beard with tissue cover. Some soiling to cloth, free of internal marks or notations. (BAL 3436) (McBride 158)
The first American edition of The £1,000,000 Bank-Note was published by Charles L. Webster of New York and advertised as early as April 15th, 1893. Two weeks later, the first English edition was published on April 28th.
