The Quaker City Holy Land excursion : an unfinished play: PB 15-2004

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Titles

The Quaker City Holy Land excursion : an unfinished play

Maker(s)

Author: Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain)
Editor: Knoepfler, Donald
Illustrator: DePol, John
Publisher: Buttonmaker Press
Printer: Knoepfler, Donald

Description

By Mark Twain, 1867 ; with wood engravings by John DePol.

Edited by Donald W. Knoepfler from the ms. in the Lilly Library, Indiana University. The ms. was printed in 1927 in an edition of 200 copies commissioned by M. Harzof, New York, but most copies were destroyed at his order before distribution. One copy is in the Lilly Library with Twain's ms.
Included at end is a facsim. of a letter from Twain to C.H. Webb, dated Nov. 25 [1867?] explaining why he was unable to complete the play.

Place(s) associated

Omaha

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2003-05) by Dreyfus, John

Dating

Production date: AD 1986

Note

"Donald Knoepfler has hand-set this book in 12 point Baskerville type and printed it on Mohawk paper, using the original wood engravings, in an edition limited to 150 numbered and signed copies. June 1986."--Colophon Museum has complimentary copy signed by John DePol and Donald Knoepfler.