[Via American Libraries (ALA) Some of these runs - on highly acidic pulp, etc. - are extremely rare. /DDD ] Mark Twain in magazines <http://link.ixs1.net/s/lt?id=g8737308&si=j162799749&pc=q2092&ei=6350210 > Steven Lomazow writes: "Having just acquired an extremely rare periodical that contains 12 early Mark Twain appearances, it is an excellent time to present a short treatise about the magazine appearances of America's foremost humorist. I believe that my collection now contains the best representation of Twain periodicals in private hands. Twain's first appearance was way back when he was 16, in Benjamin Shillaber's Carpet Bag in 1852. His original work was published in magazines 178 times in a few dozen different publications, some posthumously. Most notable is the earliest excerpt of Huckleberry Finn in December 1884 in The Century."... Magazine History: A Collector's Blog, Mar. 26