Harper's New Monthly Magazine volume 34 Dec. 1866-May 1867: Mark Twain's Forty-Three Days in an Open Boat -- Wild Bill Hickock -- Davy Crockett -- Tar Baby, Br'r Rabbit, and Br'r Wolf by Twain, Mark - 1867

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1867. Hardcover. Good -. viii, 816 p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Contemporary half calf with marbled paper over boards. Gilt-tooled spine title. This volume features a number of pieces about the recently concluded American Civil War, including parts of Personal Recollections of the War by D. H. Strother; Three Days of Terror by Ellen Leonard (about the draft riots in New York City); Civil War and Social Beneficence by Octavius Brooks Frothingham; and Bushy and Jack by Mary Hose (fiction set in Georgia during the war, including a telling of the story of the Tar Baby, Br'r Rabbit, and Br'r Wolf, which preceded the publication of the Uncle Remus stories in 1880). Also includes Forty-Three Days in an Open Boat by Mark Swain [Mark Twain's first publication in a major American magazine]; Wild Bill by George Ward Nichols, crediting with creating the legend of Wild Bill Hickock; In a Street Car by Nora Perry; Davy Crockett's Electioneering Tour by James J. Bethune [Edward S. Ellis]; and The Virginians in Texas by George F. Harrington. Scarce. In Good- Condition: boards are heavily rubbed, with loss of some leather and paper; back hinge separated; old dampstaining at lower corner of some leaves; scattered soiling.