The American Claimant and Other Stories and Sketches (Harper & Brothers Edition)

397, [5] pp. 8vo. Navy blue cloth, gilt titles. "A novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. Twain wrote the novel with the help of phonographic dictation, the first author (according to Twain himself) to do so. The American Claimant is a comedy of mistaken identities and multiple role switches. Its cast of characters include an American enamored of British hereditary aristocracy and a British earl entranced by American democracy."