by Mark Twain and Philip Stead.

(New York): Doubleday Books for Young Readers, (2017).

First edition, first printing.

Statement "First edition" and first printing number code sequence 1 through 10 to the copyright page.

Illustrated with endearing, engaging and evocative color art on almost every page by Erin Stead.

Author Philip Stead drew extensively from Mark Twain's unpublished manuscript, story outline, and notes, to flush out and finish this fairy tale that Twain originally told orally for his daughters at their request.

Minute bump and tiny rub to the lower shelf edges, else nearly fine in slate-blue linen boards with white chicken silhouette and Twain quote to the front cover and with white titles and decorations to the spine, white and blue Twain manuscript-illustrated end-papers; in a fine dust jacket.

Quarto; 152 pages.

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