April 12, 2024
Franklin Library: Mark Twain: Jumping Frog: Hadleyburg
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Franklin Library: Mark Twain: The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories Franklin Library FULL leather top-of-the-line edition of Mark Twain's "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories," Illustrated by David G. Klein, a Limited edition, one of the COLLECTED STORIES OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST WRITERS series, published in 1985. Bound in a Most Handsome hunter green Moroccan cowhide, the book has taupe French moire silk endleaves, hubbed spine, satin bookmarker, 22 kt. gold gilding on three edges---in FINE condition. Mark Twain, pseudonym for SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS, lived from 1835-1910. Twain was a journeyman printer in the East, a riverboat pilot on the MISSISSIPPI RIVER, and a Western explorer. He married Olivia Langdon, daughter of a wealthy NEW YORK family; he fatd three daughters and went on a five-year lecture tour of the world, dying in the year of HALEY'S COMET. Stories include: "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," "Political Economy," "Science Vs. Luck," "A True Story," "The Canvasser's Tale," "Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale," "Jim Baker's Bluejay Yarn," "A Curious Experience," "The Stolen White Elephant," "Luck," "The Californian's Tale," "The Diary of Adam and Eve," "Is He Living or Is He Dead ," "The L1,000,000 Bank Note," "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg," "The Five Boons of Life,
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