The £1,000,000 Bank-Note and Other New Stories

New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1893. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Beard, Dan. First edition, first state (BAL 3436). Spine and edges very slightly toned, owner bookplates of C.O.G. Miller and Richard Kendall Miller on front endpaper, top edge faintly foxed, loss of gilt from spine and front board. Binding tight, text clean, bright, and unmarked. 1893 Hard Cover. 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 (truncated) 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. (Inventory #: 2340706)