1924 Mark Twain's Autobiography

Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition, first printing of these works, with 'H-Y' and 'First Edition' to the colophon of each volume, and duplicate half titles to volume II. BAL state A.

Illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume, retaining the original tissue guard. Collated, complete.

The memoir contains a rambling collection of anecdotes and ruminations, rather than being a chronology detailed autobiography. This is as a result of Twain dictating the memoir, rather than writing it himself.

With the inscription 'H. G. Haymaker Foreign Office' to each front free endpaper.

With two pages of advertisements to the rear of volume II.

Compiled and edited by Twain's personal friend and literary executor Albert Bigelow Paine, this is a smart first edition of the autobiography of this major literary figure.