8vo. First Edition, First Printing, thus edition; 740 clean, unmarked pages.

8vo. First Edition, First Printing, thus edition; 740 clean, unmarked pages. dj w/lite echiping, unclipped price, in mylar; Frontispiece portrait. This collection offers Mark Twain's outspoken pieces on such larage topics as God, providence, Christianity, and human natu re, gathered from the unpublished writing in the Mark Twain Papers, including the "Little Bessie" dialogues, in which a small girl horifies her sanctimonious mother with probing questions about the Vi rgin Birth, and a satirical tale, "The Second Advent, " which places the return of the Messiah in a sleepy Arkansas village and recounts the disastrous consequences of the miracles wrought by his disc iples; dj w/lite wear, in mylar (unclipped).