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Tuesday, September 30, 2003
"(The) one Mark Twain book with no words in it was probably his most lucrative: according to an item in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (8 June 1885), he had made $200,000 from all his other books, and $50,000 from the scrapbook alone."
Some pictures and a (very) short history of the Mark Twain Patent Scrap-Book. From the same site, materials given to book agents selling Twain door to door in the nineteenth century: SUCCESS IS CERTAIN IF ABOVE RULES AND SUGGESTIONS ARE FOLLOWED
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