The £1,000,000 Bank-Note and Other New Stories [One Million Pound Banknote]

260, 9 pp. 8vo. Beige cloth, gilt, black, and brown titles and decorations. Frontispiece by Dan Beard. A collection of short stories by the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Roughing It, etc. The titular story takes place in Victorian London, where two very rich, eccentric brothers give the penniless story protagonist, Henry Adams, one million pounds of money in the form of a single peerless bank note. Henry would not be easily able to exchange that note in the bank without being questioned about how he had come to it, charged with theft and arrested. He would also not be able to spend it since no ordinary person would be able to change it. Includes: The £1,000,000 Bank-Note; Mental Telegraphy; A Cure for the Blues; The Enemy Conquered; or, Love Triumphant; About All Kinds of Ships; Playing Courier; The German Chicago; A Petition to the Queen of England; A Majestic Literary Fossil.