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All three volumes are fine unread first printings.

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.

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.

Almost new matching set of 3 hardbacks and jackets! No owners' names or labels. Jackets are in clear protective covers. Text is clean, unmarked. All 3 are first edition, 1st printing with full number line. (Shelf location: J6) Books are carefully sealed in waterproof mailers and then boxed to prevent damage during transit.

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, first issue with the copyright notice stating, "First Edition, " and with the code letters "H-Y" on the copyright page. One of 100 special bound copies. With an Introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine. 2 volumes. Pp. xvi, 368 + [6], 365, [2, ads], [1]. Gravure frontispieces in each volume. Contemporary three-quarter tan pigskin, raised bands, tan cloth sides, gilt-lettered spines, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. Minimal scuff marks to spine. Light, unobtrusive stain to spine of volume II. Overall, A fine set. First edition, first issue with the copyright notice stating, "First Edition, " and with the code letters "H-Y" on the copyright page. Half title duplicated in volume II. Also includes the two pages of Books by Mark Twain after the index (volume II) noting that this title was issued as a "special edition." There is a typed statement tipped-in to volume I from the San Francisco bookselling firm of Newbegin's Books stating, "First issue of the first edition. hand-bound in three-quarter pigskin. This is one set of 100 issued for Mark Twain collectors." Stamped at the bottom edge of the inner rear covers is the statement, "Hand Bound for Newbegin." Neither BAL or Johnson mention this special edition. However, Johnson states, "About three hundred copies in sheets, uncut and untrimmed, were variously bound by individuals but no known copy issued by the publishers varied from the above collation" (as per our collation of this copy). "This is not the formal autobiography one expects and gets from a Grant or a Roosevelt. Rather it is a rambling group of reminiscences, which might jump in one moment from boyhood to middle age" (Johnson). [BAL: 3537; Johnson, Bibliography of Mark Twain: p.101].