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First Edition, 1924, 2 Volume Set. Clean and tightly bound in navy cloth with gilded titles. Extremely slight wear to the binding and top text block edge gilt. Still very close to Fine condition. The contents are fine. No dust jackets. International shipping may require additional postage charges.

First edition, Harper code L-Y. Full blue cloth with gilt lettering under light blue dust jackets. Both volumes exceedingly nice. The jackets have minor fading, minor chipping to vol. 1, stain to head of spine panel on vol. 1. Quite presentable. Posthumously published, this was Twain's life story the way he wanted it to be told. Extra postage required for international or expedited shipping.

Harper & Brothers, 1924. Stated first edition (H-Y) in two volumes. Very good collectible copy, handsome navy blue ribbed cloth with gilt lettering on spine and facsimile signature of Twain on front board. No dust jackets. Not available for priority/expedited shipping. Due to the size/weight of this book extra charges may apply for international shipping.

12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. 46pp. Terra cotta cloth, gilt lettering. Corners and spine ends very lightly rubbed, interior is age-toned, clean and binding is tight. First Edition Second State with Ball, Black & Co. ad on copyright page. Not really a biography, but amusing. Illustrated.

Woodcuts; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 47 pages; 1871 Sheldon & Company. HC 1st edition, 2nd state. Snugly bound in original dark green cloth with titles brightly in gilt to cover; spine unlettered as issued. 2nd state with Ball, Black & Co ad on copyright page. Trace rubbing and fray to cloth at corner tips. Prior ownership pendiled to front flyleaf dated May 1, 1871. Tiny mended edge tear to flyleaf top edge. Illustrated with woodcuts from art attributed to Henry Louis Stephens. Bright and attractive copy. VG+

Pictorial hardcovers in dark blue cloth with bright gilt titles to covers and spines. First printing of first edition. Books are in fine condition, crisp and clean, with tight bindings and sharp corners. Large 8vos. Over 700 pp. including index.; With Dust Jackets; 8vo 8"-9" tall.

Size: 0x0x0; First Edition HC, 2 Vol set. Signs of shelf wear and binding fatigue on front and back cover panels, clean with no margin notes or highlightsEM.

All three volumes are fine unread first printings.

The two volume first printings of Mark Twain's autobiography, dictated by him during the last years of his life. 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. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Bumping to spine head and tail. Rubbing to joints, with fading to back strip, and mark to tail of volume I back strip. Rear hinge of volume I and front hinge of each volume strained, and slightly tender. Inscription to front free endpapers. Internally, generally firmly bound. Spotting to title pages and frontispiece perimeters, with pages otherwise generally clean and bright. Very Good.

First edition, second issue of Twain's third book with the Ball, Black, & Co. advertisement on verso of the title page (BAL 3326). Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles to the spine, illustrated and extra-illustrated with a tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece of Twain. In good condition. Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance contains two short stories: "A Burlesque Autobiography", which first appeared in Twain's ten-page Memoranda contributions to Galaxy Magazine, and "First Romance", which initially appeared in The Express in 1870. The two stories bear no actual relationship to Twain's life, but rather present fictional characters that are supposedly part of his lineage. The illustrations throughout both stories have no relationship to the text, but are cartoons that illustrate the children's poem The House that Jack Built, a social commentary the Erie Railroad Ring and its participants, Jay Gould, John T. Hoffman, and Jim Fisk.