£1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories

Author: Mark Twain (PSUED Samuel Langhorne Clemens) [1835-1910]Year: 1880Publisher: Chatto & WindusPlace: LondonDescription: [2 Piccadilly ad]+[6]+311+[1 blank]+[32 ad] pages. Small octavo (7 1/" x 6") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine black pictorial bank-note to spine and cover with addition pictorial rendering to cover. 32 ad pages date March 1893. First edition. The £1,000,000 Bank-Note charts the magical rags-to-riches ascent of a virtuous and resourceful mining broker's clerk from San Francisco who arrives in London with a single dollar in his pocket, and proceeds to ultimate and splendid financial success and fame in London society a paean to ingenuity and a celebration of its cunning confidence-man narrator. It is illustrated by Daniel Carter Beard.The other pieces include "Mental Telegraphy," a serious essay reflecting Twain's continuing interest in the occult he and his wife would later try several seances, poignantly and unsuccessfully,