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Ex-library hardback without dust jacket, *N.B. VOLUME II ONLY", blue cloth boards grubby, edges worn & corners scuffed, binding open in places but intact, text block edges uncut, some handling marks to pages, usual library stamps/markings, otherwise good clear text, Mark Twain's Autobiography Volume II Only, published in 1924 by Harper & Brothers. Heavy book will ship overseas for extra postage. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. 29E*

Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 392 p. Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography.

Ex-library hardback without dust jacket, *N.B. VOLUME II ONLY", blue cloth boards grubby, edges worn & corners scuffed, binding open in places but intact, text block edges uncut, some handling marks to pages, usual library stamps/markings, otherwise good clear text, Mark Twain's Autobiography Volume II Only, published in 1924 by Harper & Brothers. Heavy book will ship overseas for extra postage. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. 29E*

Introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine who was Clemens' literary executor. Twain had been attempting to write an autobiography for 35 years prior to his death. The task of editing his "disorganzed mass of unpublished writing" fell to Albert Paine (much of it was dictated prior to his death in 1909), and publishing it in book form was first attempted by Harper's--it covers about 2/5 of his unpublished works. Frontis portrait in each volume with tissue guard. Pagination: vol. 1: 368pp; vol. 2: 365pp. Two pages of ads in rear of volume 2 with Harper's Mark Twain books. Original publisher's blue cloth binding with bright gilt spine and cover lettering; top edges gilt. Previous owner bookplate in each volume on front paste down else, a nice clean, tight and unmarked set with no interior or exterior markings. This is the August 1924 printing (K-Y) in first year of publication (2 months after the first August printing). Ref: BAL 3537 p. 225; Frontis Portraits; 8vo, 8"-9" tall.

Size: 9x6x1; Complete set of two volumes published 1924 by Harper & Brothers. "L-Y" on copyright page. Moderate wear to tips of spine. Name of former owner (dated 1924) written on front free endpapers of both volumes; else, no markings noted. Gilt top page edges. Generally mild wear.

2691 shelf. Slim green buckram, a few water stained spots on bottom edges, paper title label on spine. No names, clean text. Striking b/w wood engravings. Early Peter Pauper--edition 525 copies, 500 sold by Random House. Elegant letterpress production.

Introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine. Very early printing, with Roman numerals date on title page and single 1924 date on copyright page, with letters K-Y. Blue ribbed cloth with gilt foreedges; tissue interleavings. A superb set, practically unread, with no internal marks, in gleaming cover gilt. Scarce in this fine condition. Octavo.