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Christian Science with Notes Containing Corrections to Date
by Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemmens)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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Hamden, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1907. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis, illustrations, 362p. Original red cloth. 20 cm. Minor cover soil. Former owner's neatly inked signature "Daniel Holmes, Brockport, NY, Feb. 1907") on front free endpaper. No jacket. Blanck's (BAL) 3497. This copy has the various features that Blanck cites: the captioned frontis has 1906 as the date; 17 titles are listed in the boxed advetisement on the copyright page and 8 titles are listed under Other Books on that same page; and the list of illustrations is set in 8 total lines on the page following the copyright page.
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
- McBlain Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 92634
- Title
- Christian Science with Notes Containing Corrections to Date
- Author
- Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemmens)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York and London
- Date Published
- 1907
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Our second floor shop contains about 15,000 volumes and is open by appointment. Established 1970. We have been a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America for over 45 years. While there is a heavy emphasis in our stock on African Americana, Africa, Asia and the Middle East we also buy and sell antiquarian books on other subjects.
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