Literary path begins for Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain
Compiled by J Wells Kelly and published in San Francisco in 1862, a rare copy of the First Directory of Nevada Territory…, which was worn, dry and splitting but in original, leather-backed printed boards, sold for $6500 (£5080) in a PBA Galleries sale of April 20.
The first major descriptive and historical account of the territory, it was issued less than three…