The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches.
First Edition of Samuel L. Clemens' The Curious Republic of Gondour
The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches.
TWAIN, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens].
$975.00
Item Number: 64043
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919.
First edition of Twain’s collection of humorous sketches. Octavo, original half cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
"Apparently unironic and wisely unsigned, [Twain's The Curious Republic of Gondour] modestly proposed a change in the suffrage laws... the essay argued, in essence, that universal suffrage was fine - but why not allot bonus voting privileges on an escalating scale based on extent of education and property holding" (Powers, Mark Twain: A Life, 378).
