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Christian Science ; with Notes Containing Corrections to Date.
by Twain, Mark
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- good
- Hardcover
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- Good
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Stockbridge, Georgia, United States
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New York ; London : Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1907., 1907. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st state, with the correct Blanck and Johnson Points: 17 titles listed in the advertisement for the Uniform Mark Twain set, eight lines of illustrations, and frontispiece has Twain facsimile and 1906 ; Octavo. ; [6], [1]-362 pp.; red cloth, decorative gold cover ; front board shaken ; ownership signatures of Rena McD Roach [18 Sept. 1895 - 28 Jan 1989], Margaret C. Bland, May 14, 1934 and Alethia Bland Parker [2 May 1893 - Jan 1972 in Kitty Hawk, NC] ; water spot on front cover ; sunned spine ; soiled covers ; text very clean, except for some foxing ; G.
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From the book:This last summer, when I was on my way back to Vienna from the Appetite-Cure in the mountains, I fell over a cliff in the twilight, and broke some arms and legs and one thing or another, and by good luck was found by some peasants who had lost an ass, and they carried me to the nearest habitation, which was one of those large, low, thatch-roofed farm-houses, with apartments in the garret for the family, and a cunning little porch under the deep gable decorated with boxes of bright colored flowers and cats; on the ground floor a large and light sitting-room, separated from the milch-cattle apartment by a partition; and in the front yard rose stately and fine the wealth and pride of the house, the manure-pile. That sentence is Germanic, and shows that I am acquiring that sort of mastery of the art and spirit of the language which enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars. There was a village a mile away, and a horse doctor lived there, but there was no surgeon. It seemed a bad outlook; mine was distinctly a surgery case. Then it was remembered that a lady from Boston was summering in that village, and she was a Christian Science doctor and could cure anything. So she was sent for. It was night by this time, and she could not conveniently come, but sent word that it was no matter, there was no hurry, she would give me "absent treatment" now, and come in the morning; meantime she begged me to make myself tranquil and comfor-table and remember that there was nothing the matter with me. I thought there must be some mistake.
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- Joseph Valles - Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 469
- Title
- Christian Science ; with Notes Containing Corrections to Date.
- Author
- Twain, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- New York ; London : Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1907.
- Date Published
- 1907
- Keywords
- Christian Science Mary Baker Eddy Healing
- Bookseller catalogs
- Catalog 70 - Christianity and Religion;
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