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For some items, we can also email digital photographs.Īll of our items are guaranteed as described and are shipped on approval. If you are interested in an item from one of our catalogues or our website and would like more information before ordering it, please give us a call one of our salespeople will be happy to speak with you and answer any questions that you might have. Contemporary owner signature to title page dated “August 1906.” The Four Million contains some of Henry’s most popular stories, including “The Gift of the Magi,” “The Furnished Room” and “The Cop and the Anthem.” First state, with “Published April, 1906” on copyright page and “lony” (rather than “long”) in the prefatory notice. Henry Twist’ that somehow manages an unlikely happy ending in even his most somberly realistic stories” (ANB). His first of many such semiannual collections, Cabbages and Kings (1904), cemented his growing public reputation… Large audiences worldwide still delight in his humor, humanism, and the classic ‘O. Henry,’ he published several stories during the three years he served before his early release in 1901 due to good behavior… Maintaining his pen name so as to keep his criminal record concealed, he became a prolific writer, incorporating his vast experiences into carefully structured but quickly produced stories that were published in several major periodicals… As his success grew, Porter began to republish his stories in collections that loosely linked previously disparate stories with new and rewritten materials into a book-length format. Porter was a part-time writer and a bank clerk convicted of embezzlement. Henry’s second published book, in bright gilt-stamped original cloth. Octavo, original gilt-stamped red cloth.įirst edition, first state, of O.

HENRY’S THE FOUR MILLION, INCLUDING HIS CLASSIC “GIFT OF THE MAGI”

The four million by o henry