The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1906. Hardcover. Sm 8vo (8" x 5.5."), gilt red cloth. Frontis. port., [i-viii], 523 pp., b&w illus. throughout. CONDITION: Very good, covers with small scratches and minimal fading, spine sunned, light soiling along bottom edge of text-block. First edition, second state, with "a boxed advertisement on the copyright page," and "error were for where" on p. 18, line 9. This collection, named after its eponymous title-story, also contains "A Dog's Tale," "was it Heaven? Or Hell?." "Extracts from Adam's Diary," and "Eve's Diary." The title-story proved to be the longest piece of fiction that Twain (truncated) completed and published during his twilight years. BAL 3492. Rasmusen, R. Kent. Mark Twain A to Z (New York, 1995), p. 456. (Inventory #: 8549)