Re: [ABAA Discuss] Stolen Book AlertThe lovely Twain volume described below was stolen last year from a NYC dealer and still has not surfaced. If anyone on this list has seen it, please contact me off-list. A bit of background on the origins of this book: a goofy preacher/bibliophile mailed Twain a small batch of first editions, each with some silly question written on the end paper by the preacher. Twain patiently answered his questions, with the result that the man of God kept sending books (and questions). Twain's answers got shorter and less friendly, but the preacher got him to inscribe about 15-20 books before it was all over. The preacher sold them all at auction shortly after Twain's death. Books from that group pop up in the market with some regularity. Kevin Mac Donnell Austin TX [CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.]. Christian Science With Notes Containing Corrections to Date. By Mark Twain. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait and two additional plates. 8vo, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1907. First Edition, first printing (with all points called for by BAL). Original red cloth. Near fine copy. BAL 3497; McBride p.228. 20 A remarkable inscribed copy of Twain's attack on the claims of Mary Baker Eddy and her followers. In a hand other than Mark Twain's someone has written on the flyleaf: "This book should live when the delusion is dead. Is there any danger that a majority of the race will become insane?" Beneath which, Twain has penned: "Only a very small minority can properly claim to be sane [underlined]. Mark Twain."