introductory note robert sattelmeyer (1 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A single spine crease and with noticeable edge wear and a soft diagonal corner crease to rear wrap. This edition notable for containing "Never before published fiction by Mark Twain," that being "How Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson," an unfinished manuscript found in Twain's papers at the Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley. Twain's first literary executor, Albert Bigelow Paine, called the untitled piece "Feud Story and The Girl Who Was Ostensibly a Man," and classified it as "unusable" -- meaning most obviously that he had no use for it in his program of posthumous printing, "but perhaps also referring to its subject matter as well, which was rather more indelicate than the official caretaker of Mark Twain's public image might have wished," comments Robert Sattelmeyer in his introduction. Paine dated the story to 1900-1903. The magazine is of 216 pp., the unfinished Twain piece runs 30 pp. followed by a page of notes. Reduced from $30.