A Double Barrelled Detective Story

1902 Mark TWAIN 1st ed Double Barrelled Detective Sherlock Holmes RARE

"How blind and unreasoning and arbitrary are some of the laws of nature - the most of them, in fact!"

― Mark Twain, The Double-Barrelled Detective

Mark Twain was one of the most popular and beloved American authors of the 19th-century. His works have become a mainstay in American literature, creating characters such as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. By the end of 1800s, British author Arthur Conan Doyle created a famous detective character Sherlock Holmes, of whom Twain was quite fond. Twain developed his own parodic version of Holmes in his book 'A Double Barrelled Detective Story" which was first published in 1902. Twain puts Sherlock Holmes in the United States and creates a satirical world for him to discover.

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TWAIN, Mark

A Double Barrelled Detective Story

New York, London: Harper & Brothers, 1902. First edition.

Details:

· Collation: complete

o [4], 179, [1]

o 7 plates by Lucius Hitchcock

· References: BAL 3471

· Language: English

· Binding: Hardcover; secure

o Decorative red cloth

· Size: ~8in X 5.5in (20cm x 14cm)

· The BAL notes no priority on the various forms of this first edition with both A and B states with endpapers and on wove paper

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