Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Volume 34. December 1866 to May 1867.

A rare and important volume.

Includes Forty-Three Days in an Open Boat with Tom Sawyer by Mark Swain. Twain misspelled as Mark Swain. [Mark Twain's first publication in a major American magazine]


This volume also includes a number of pieces about the recently concluded American Civil War, including parts of Personal Recollections of the War by D. H. Strother; Three Days of Terror by Ellen Leonard (about the draft riots in New York City); Civil War and Social Beneficence by Octavius Brooks Frothingham; and Bushy and Jack by Mary Hose (fiction set in Georgia during the war, including a telling of the story of the Tar Baby, Br'r Rabbit, and Br'r Wolf, which preceded the publication of the Uncle Remus stories in 1880). Also includes Forty-Three Days in an Open Boat by Mark Swain [Mark Twain's first publication in a major American magazine]; Wild Bill by George Ward Nichols, crediting with creating the legend of Wild Bill Hickock; In a Street Car by Nora Perry; Davy Crockett's Electioneering Tour by James J. Bethune [Edward S. Ellis]; and The Virginians in Texas by George F. Harrington.
Author: Samuel Clemens et al.
Illustrations B/W Plates
Dated: 1866 to 1
Publisher: Harper's Monthly
Edition: 1st
Size: 8vo
Binding Quarter leather
Type: Literature - Classics
Subject: Serials
Condition Report F/hinge starting but attached. Some scuffing of quarter leather. Good Plus.