MARK TWAIN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY, NY: Harper; 1st. Ed., 1924, 2 Vols. + Notes Volume

Description: Condition: Used, Hardcover, Very Good. Original blue cloth covers with gilt lettering to the spine and a gilt facsimile of Mark Twain's signature. Top edges gilt. The books have minor spine and edge shelf wear and some soiling on the front cover of volume 1 and the back cover of volume 2. The binding is tight. The interior pages are clean. The front endpapers have blind embossed initials "ABN" that we assume are from a previous owner. The volume titled Mark Twain's Note-Book has minor shelf wear. Owner's inscription on free endpaper dated Christmas 1935. The rear hinge is split but still holds. New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1924. First edition of Twain's famed autobiography. Octavo, two volumes, original blue cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Twain to each volume. Stated "First Edition" with "H-Y" on the copyright page. (BAL 3537) Introduction by Alfred Bigelow Paine. Vol. 1 has 368 pages and Vol. 2 has 365 pages plus 2 pages listing Books authored by Mark Twain. Mark Twain's Autobiography constitutes a lengthy set of reminiscences, dictated, for the most part, in the final years of his life and left in both typescript and manuscript at his death. In his Preface: As From the Grave, he celebrated that the posthumous publication of this work allowed him to speak with his "whole frank mind", indeed, he states: "It has seemed to me that I could be as frank and free and unembarrassed as a love letter if I knew that what I was writing would be exposed to no eye until I was dear, and unaware, and indifferent." See Photos for details. VISIT OUR EBAY STORE HTTPS://stores.ebay.com/THE-CARTOPHILIANS Check out our eBay for many fine postcards and ephemera items. Thousands of Items available now at Buy it Now Prices. Use Category Listings and Store Search Engines to locate your favorite views and topics. Click on the hyperlink above to take you to our store.PLEASE NOTE OUR PAYMENT & SHIPPING TERMS POSTAGE and HANDLING costs to U. S. via Media Mail $15.00 and other destinations $75 NOTE TO OVERSEAS BUYERS: If the total value of your purchases exceeds $50.00, REGISTERED INTERNATIONAL MAIL MAY BE REQUIRED. THE REGISTRY FEE CHARGED BY THE U.S. POST OFFICE IS $16.00 PLUS INTERNATIONAL PACKAGE RATE POSTAGE BY WEIGHT. For Shipments valued at $199 or more Express Insured International Mail will cost $60. ******************We will COMBINE LOTS to save you mailing costs whenever possible. If you want to combine lots that will close over several days, please let us know as soon as possible and please wait to pay until you are invoiced for the combined total. Do not pay for each individual lot until invoiced. Separate payments via Paypal mean more fees charged to us. Additional lots in same mailing are $.50 each. Thank you.Thank you and Enjoy. Powered by eBay Turbo Lister The free listing tool. List your items fast and easy and manage your active items.

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