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Christian Science: With Notes Containing Corrections to Date.
by Twain, Mark
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Slight edge wear top and bottom of spine, spine slightly faded, still a near very good copy with no dust jacket.
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About This Item
New York.: Harper's., 1907.. 1st edition, 2nd State with autobiography spelled correctly on page 123.. Hardcover, red cloth, gilt spine title, MT monogram device on cover. . Slight edge wear top and bottom of spine, spine slightly faded, still a near very good copy with no dust jacket. . 8vo.. Portrait frontis.
Synopsis
From the book:This last summer, when I was on my way back to Vienna from the Appetite-Cure in the mountains, I fell over a cliff in the twilight, and broke some arms and legs and one thing or another, and by good luck was found by some peasants who had lost an ass, and they carried me to the nearest habitation, which was one of those large, low, thatch-roofed farm-houses, with apartments in the garret for the family, and a cunning little porch under the deep gable decorated with boxes of bright colored flowers and cats; on the ground floor a large and light sitting-room, separated from the milch-cattle apartment by a partition; and in the front yard rose stately and fine the wealth and pride of the house, the manure-pile. That sentence is Germanic, and shows that I am acquiring that sort of mastery of the art and spirit of the language which enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars. There was a village a mile away, and a horse doctor lived there, but there was no surgeon. It seemed a bad outlook; mine was distinctly a surgery case. Then it was remembered that a lady from Boston was summering in that village, and she was a Christian Science doctor and could cure anything. So she was sent for. It was night by this time, and she could not conveniently come, but sent word that it was no matter, there was no hurry, she would give me "absent treatment" now, and come in the morning; meantime she begged me to make myself tranquil and comfor-table and remember that there was nothing the matter with me. I thought there must be some mistake.
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- Bookseller
- Zephyr Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 69406
- Title
- Christian Science: With Notes Containing Corrections to Date.
- Author
- Twain, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, red cloth, gilt spine title, MT monogram device on cover.
- Book Condition
- Used - Slight edge wear top and bottom of spine, spine slightly faded, still a near very good copy with no dust jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition, 2nd State with autobiography spelled correctly on p
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper's.
- Place of Publication
- New York.
- Date Published
- 1907.
- Pages
- 362 pp.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
- Size
- 8vo.
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Reno, Nevada
About Zephyr Books
Zephyr Books is owned and operated by Lee and Ivye Johnson. We have been in the book business in Reno, Nevada since 1994. We have operated both brick and mortar, as well as online exclusive shops. We closed our brick and mortar shop in 2013, and now offer an exclusive selection of rare, collectible, and antiquarian books online only.
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