"Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven", by Mark Twain, with frontispiece picture of Captain Stormfield aboard his comet "Space Ship" by Albert Levering; published by Harper & Brothers, New York. Later Printing of the First Edition with Harper code 'E-B' [May 1927] on the copyright page. [1st printing was issued by Harper in 1909. References: BAL 3511; Smith T-433].

Hard boards with black lettering and Captain Stormfield with his space ship on both boards, black cloth spine and corners [some fade], gold paint drops on both boards: see photos; 4.3/4" x 8", frontispiece; 121 pages, very good condition. See photos.

This classic satire of the 'Captain's Log' genre in which Stormfield dies and passes through the pearly gates "whizzing through space like a comet!" was the last book Twain published during his lifetime; he worked on the story for almost forty years. Two chapters from the middle of the novel were finally published in Harper's Monthly in December 1907 and January 1908 and collected in book form the following year. Combining science fiction with a satiric look at conventional views of the afterlife, Twain delivers his amusing and trenchant commentary on human vanity.

Mark Twain (1895-1910) - pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, American writer, journalist, and humorist, who won a worldwide audience for his stories of youthful adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Sensitive to the sound of language, Twain introduced colloquial speech into American fiction.

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