AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN, Volume I
by Mark Twain; Harriet Elinor Smith; Benjamin Griffin; Victor Fischer; Michael B Frank; Sharon K Goetz; Leslie Diane Myrick; Bancroft Library
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- ISBN 13
- 9780520267190
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Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8 vo,.(26 cm.). cloth, gilt spine, xix, 736 pages [16] pages of plates, illustrated, first edition, first printing, with full number line, University of California Press, had originally planned a small print run of 7,500 copies of first volume of "The Autobiography of Mark Twain." plans changed quickly when the book became a big seller. This is the first printing. A publication of the Mark Twain Project of the Bancroft Library, CONTENTS: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations, 1870-1905 --Autobiography of Mark Twain -- Explanatory notes --Appendixes: Samuel L. Clemens, a brief chronology --Family biographies --Speech at the seventieth birthday dinner, 5 December 1905 --Speech at the Players, 3 January 1906 -- Previous Publication,Note on the text --Word division in this volume --References --Index.
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- Harry E Bagley Books Ltd
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- Title
- AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN, Volume I
- Author
- Mark Twain; Harriet Elinor Smith; Benjamin Griffin; Victor Fischer; Michael B Frank; Sharon K Goetz; Leslie Diane Myrick; Bancroft Library
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0520267192
- ISBN 13
- 9780520267190
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- 2010
- Size
- 8 vo,.(26 cm.)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Twain, Mark, -- 1835-1910., Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.,
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- Literature; Biography & Autobiography; Americana;
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