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Mark Twain: San Francisco Correspondent Allen Press
Mark Twain: San Francisco Correspondent Allen Press
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Heading: (Allen Press)
Author: Twain, Mark
Title: Mark Twain: San Francisco Correspondent. Selections from his letters to the Territorial Enterprise: 1865-1866
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:Book Club of California
Date Published: 1957
Description:


Edited by Henry Nash Smith and Frederick Anderson. Illustrations from photographs, old prints. (4to) original cloth-backed boards. One of 400 copies.



Prospectus laid in. Printed at the Allen Press. Mark Twain‘s exuberant reporting for the famous Virginia City, Nevada, newspaper on a score of subjects, most relating to San Francisco. These articles were discovered in a scrapbook compiled by the author‘s brother, Orion Clemens, the original newspaper files having been destroyed. Allen Press 20.

Condition
Darkening to spine; small abraded area on front free endpaper, bump to top corner of prospectus; near fine.
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