The Four Million (Complete Works of O. Henry, Manuscript Edition) one of 125 with manuscript

Author: O. Henry (William Sidney Porter)
Title: The Four Million (Complete Works of O. Henry, Manuscript Edition) one of 125 with manuscript
Publication: Garden City: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1912

Description: Hardcover. No. 8 of 125 copies of the manuscript edition of O. Henry (printed for Edmund Paul Twohy), single volume from the set, this being the one containing a sheet of yellow-tan foolscap with a page of manuscript in pencil by the author. Tall 8vo, 10 x 7 inches, half black morocco and pale sea-green cloth boards, good, binding with light wear and soil, contents shows faint tidemark and waviness from old dampstain to bottom 25% of text throughout. The page-long manuscript is from an unfinished story published the year after the author's death in Everybody's Magazine, December 1911, titled "The Unprofitable Servant." This part reads, "One night at about eleven o'clock Del Delano dropped into Mike's place on Eighth Avenue. From that moment, instead of remaining a Place, the café became a Resort. It was as though King Edward had condescended to mingle with ten-spots of a different suit; or Joe Gans had casually strolled in to look over the Tuskegee School; or Mr. Shaw, of England, had accepted an invitation to read selections from 'Rena, the ..." Good.

Seller ID: H36890

Subject: Literature