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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. WITH NOTES CONTAINING CORRECTIONS TO DATE.
by Twain, Mark
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Cadyville, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York and London: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1907., 1907.. Good. - Octavo, 7-3/4 inches high by 5-3/8 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in red cloth with a gilt device on the front cover and titled in gilt on the spine. The corners and head & tail of the spine are bumped and the spine is slightly rubbed & soiled. [vi] & 362 pages, illustrated with a frontispiece and 2 plates. A discreet early bookseller's label is mounted along the bottom of the rear pastedown. The front hinge is cracked opposite the front blank. The top corners of several pages are bumped and there are occasional lines penciled in the margins. Good.
First edition. First state of the ads, with 17 titles listed and 6 titles under "Other Books". First state of the list of illustrations which are set in 8 lines. The first state of the frontispiece, dated 1906. [BAL 3497].
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
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 98010
- Title
- CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. WITH NOTES CONTAINING CORRECTIONS TO DATE.
- Author
- Twain, Mark
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York and London: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1907.
- Date Published
- 1907.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- LITERATURE; MARK TWAIN; CHRISTIAN SCIENCE: WITH NOTES CONTAINING CORRECTIONS TO DATE; RELIGION; NON-FICTION; FIRST EDITION. FIRST STATE; 1ST EDITION; 20TH CENTURY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; ILLUSTRATED; ILLUSTRATIONS; BAL 3497; FRONTISPIECE; PLATES; MARY BAKER E
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About the Seller
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Biblio member since 2003
Cadyville, New York
About Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.
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- First State
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- Hinge
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