411 pp. Dark brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in, color frontispiece portrait of author by Chris Simon, illustrations heading chapters by Penny Havard. A collection of nineteen short works by the author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Tramp Abroad, etc. Includes: The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg; The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County; The $30,000 Bequest; The Belated Russian Passport; Two Little Tales; The Death Disk; The £1,000,000 Bank-Note; A Horse's Tale; Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven; The Esquimau Maiden's Romance; Is He Living or Is He Dead? A Double-Barreled Detective Story; Luck; A Ghost Story; Some Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls; A Curious Experience; Hunting the Deceitful Turkey; A Fable; The Mysterious Stranger.
