Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography

New York: Simon and Shuster, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 2nd Printing Winner of the 1967 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. Stated: Second Printing. Hard cover in very good condition with black boards and gold gilt spine lettering; gold gilt decorative squares on four corners of front board. Dark gold end papers. Facsimile signature of Samuel L Clemens and Mark Twain on front free end paper.Text block clean and tight. No markings, no writings noted. Contains a section of 8 leaves/16 pages of glossy black and white photographs. Dust jacket in very good condition; light shelf wear and age toning; shadows of light wrinkles on top front panel; not price clipped (price is at bottom of front flap. * From the book, ""Set against the richly drawn background of the Gilded Age, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain follows the two currents that flowed through its subject's life: one, as Kaplan said in his acceptance speech, ""away from Hannibal, Missouri, toward the world of wealth, fame and materialities,"" and the other ""back to Hannibal again"". As Mark Twain, he was the Mississippi riverboat pilot, the satirist with a fiery hatred of sham, and the author of a half-dozen American classics. As Mr. Clemens, he was the successful literary lion who married an heiress, built a palatial estate, threw away fortunes on harebrained financial schemes, and lived the gilded life Mark Twain despised.""