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The tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson : and the comedy Those extraordinary twins / by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)

Catalog Data

Author:
Twain, Mark 1835-1910  Search this
Author:
Twain, Mark 1835-1910 Those extraordinary twins  Search this
Beckwith-Browning-Peterson Teratology Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI  Search this
Donor:
Beckwith, J. Bruce 1933-,- DSI  Search this
Browning, Nancy Gay DSI  Search this
Publisher:
American Publishing Company  Search this
Physical description:
432 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations, 1 portrait ; 23 cm
Type:
Fiction
Legal stories
Dummies (Publishing)
Place:
Missouri
Date:
1894
Notes:
"With marginal illustrations."
First edition.
Originally published under title: Pudd'nhead Wilson. Cf. BAL.
Title page printed in red and black.
Variant of BAL 3442 (Cf. LCCN 54-53102). DLC
Source: Copyright deposit, Nov. 30, 1894. DLC
Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature, 3442
Beckwith, J. Bruce. Bibliotheca Beckwithiana (unpublished), P 196.
SCDIRB copy 39088019623107 has bookplate: Smithsonian Libraries: The Beckwith-Browning-Peterson Teratology Collection.
SCDIRB copy cataloged with funds from Dr. Alan Peterson.
SCDIRB copy with publisher's red cloth hardcover binding, protected by clear overwrapper; with front cover and spine stamped in black, gilt lettering on both. Edges sprinkled in red. Laid in is a printed online search result on the book (1 folded leaf).
Summary:
When a mulatto slave woman switches her own infant with the look-alike son of a wealthy merchant, it takes Pudd'nhead Wilson, the town eccentric, to put things right again.
Topic:
Infants switched at birth  Search this
Impostors and imposture  Search this
Passing (Identity)  Search this
Trials (Murder)  Search this
Race relations  Search this
Conjoined twins  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1095936