THE CURIOUS REPUBLIC OF GONDOUR AND OTHER WHIMSICAL SKETCHES

by Mark Twain, Samuel L. Clemens

$750 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

First edition

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919. First Edition. A series of humorous sketches, including the title essay Twain originally wrote for the Atlantic, apparently unironic and wisely unsigned, that modestly proposed a change in the suffrage laws. Titled The Curious Republic of Gondour, the essay argued, in essence, that universal suffrage was fine - but why not allot bonus voting privileges on an escalating scale based on

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