Mark Twain's First Appearance in Print -Rare-

Harper's New Monthly Magazine ORIGINAL EDITION! - Publisher-Printing Location: Harper & Brothers, New York Date and Numbering: December, 1866 Volume XXXIV, Number CXCIX Size and Page Count: 6.5 X 10" Tall,approx. 144 pages, the back cover with advertisements and statement of Harper s New Monthly Magazine

Condition: Fair, binding good, front cover has tears worn on all edges especially at spine, rear cover is missing, some staining on cover, foxing, contents are complete.

Illustrations Information: 22 woodcut engravings ----An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher or historian---- Articles and Information:

RARE!!!! Usually found in the later bound 6 month Volume- This is the paper back individual issue published in December 1866.

This magazine contains the first appearance of Mark Twain in print in a national magazine. The article is ""Forty-three Days In An Open Boat"" pages 104-113. This predates his first book. It was published anonymously in the individual issues, and attributed to Mark Swain in the bound volumes.
Poem: Ballad of Uncle Joe -By Alice Carey
The secrets of Sable Island -By Charles Halleck A reminiscence of Sleepy Hollow -By Edmund Guilbert The burglary at Faustel Eversleigh
The work of salvation -By Caroline Chesebro' Gilbert Charles Stuart -By Mary Titcomb
Vine lane -By Wirt Sikes
Good looks The twenty-third of July -By Mary Newmarch Prescott
Jones's impudence -By W.H. Davenport

The Virginians in Texas (chaps. I-III) -By William M. (William Mumford) Baker

The last day on the porch -By Arthur Hastings

Poem: Drifting -By N.G. Shepherd

Santa Rosa of Lima -By Frank, Mrs. Leslie John Bright -By Moncure Daniel Conway John Eccleston's Thanksgiving -By Nora Perry Forty-three days in an open boat.

Compiled from personal diaries -By Mark Swain(Twain)

Poem: Hohenbaden -By C.C. Cox Behind the scenes -By Arthur Fleming

To beginners in bookwriting -By John Home

Editor's easy chair -By George William Curtis

Monthly record of current events