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Christian Science, With Notes Containing Corrections to Date
by TWAIN, Mark
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About This Item
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.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55963
- Title
- Christian Science, With Notes Containing Corrections to Date
- Author
- TWAIN, Mark
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper and Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1907
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature Before 1900;
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