EVE'S DIARY; TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL MS

Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. Vintage Hardcover with scarce original DJ, First Edition 1906 Harper & Brothers Publishers New York 109 pages. Very Good+, in a Good DJ. Minor shelf/edge wear to publisher's original bright red pictorial cloth with white titles - corners bumped. Tiny shelf lean. With 55 B&W illustrations by Lester Ralph. Tissue guard for the frontispiece is undamaged and still white. First Edition, first state with the year in Roman numerals (MCMVI) on the title page and with Published June, 1906 on the copyright page. Moderate shelf/edge wear, dust soiling and two chips missing (top of spine, does not affect title and the rear panel next to it - see photos to come) from original and very scarce DJ - now in mylar with a paper backing. DJ is the original and is dated to an ad on the rear panel for 3 other Mark Twain books - Men and Things, Women and Things, and The Primrose Way which were all published in 1906. Previous owner name (J.A. Kimmel Findlay, OH) on inside front cover. I believe that this book belonged to Dr. Jacob Anthony Kimmel of Findley, OH... a very interesting man. Dr. Kimmell served in the Civil War for two years after enrolling on February 16, 1863. According to the 1890 Veterans Schedule, he developed rheumatism and "organic heart disease" . Once he returned home, he started studying medicine. He was also elected to the Ohio legislature in 1895. Interestingly, Dr. Kimmell understood the importance of documenting history and wrote the book History of Findlay in 1910. Very scarce Twain title. A very handsome First Edition in the original DJ.LOC SS-FB-03