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Berkeley. 2010. November 2010. University Of California Press. Uncorrected Page Proof. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780520267190. Edited by Harriet Elinor Smith & Other Editiors Of The Mark Twain Project. 738 pages. paperback. Jacket design by Sandy Drokker. Jacket illustration-Photograph by William Vader Weyde, 21 September 1906, ‘The photographer entered. & he said ‘There-don't move-stay just as you are. a good pose! looks just as if you'd been interrupted, & wanted to use language! ' (SLC to Mary B. Rogers, 21-23 September 1906, Columbia University). keywords: Autobiography Mark Twain Literature America. FROM THE PUBLISHER-'Unparalleled in the history of literature. A bequest to posterity. '-London Times, May 1899. 'I've struck it! ' Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. 'And I will give it away-to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography. ' Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his Final (and Right) Plan for telling the story of his life. His innovative notion-to talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment-meant that his thoughts could range freely. The strict instruction that these texts remain unpublished for 100 years meant that when they came out, he would be dead, and unaware, and indifferent, and that he was therefore free to speak his whole frank mind. The year 2010 marks the 100th anniversary of Twain's death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain's works, UC Press is proud to offer for the first time Mark Twain's uncensored autobiography in its entirety and exactly as he left it. This major literary event brings to readers, admirers, and scholars the first of three essential volumes and presents Mark Twain's authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave as he intended. inventory #40409.

A beautifully clean, crisp, hardcover copy in very good condition; sunning at spine and top edges; no DJ.

First edition, first issue terracotta cloth, first state of the title page without advertisement on verso. Also issued in wrappers, no priority. Faint, faded remnants of a contemporary owner name, slight nicking to the extremities of the thin spine, a very good plus copy.

A beautifully clean, crisp, hardcover copy in very good condition; sunning at spine and top edges; no DJ.

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].