MARK TWAIN'S FIRST PUBLISHED WORK, "BOAT, AN OPEN, FORTY THREE DAYS IN" - HARPER'S NEW MAGAZINE [VOLUME 34, DECEMBER 1866 - MAY 1867]
Book Details + Condition: Harper & Brothers Publishers (New York). First Edition, 1867. Hardcover with pebbled boards and three-quarters leather binding. 816 pages. Illustrated. First edition of Mark Twain's first-ever published work, "43 Days in an Open Boat". Published under the alias "Mark Swain". Pages 104 - 113. Harper's Magazine is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts. Launched in New York City in June 1850, it is the oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the United States. Original boards have been re-attached at some point, but binding remains firm; rubbed corners and edges; old stain to front free endpaper (which does not bleed through); interior is clean and free of markings.
