GOOD: This book is from the early 20th Century and is in excellent condition for a book of this age. The library that previously held this book has placed stamps on the inside front cover and first end page. Although the pages are yellowed, they are still attractive and readable. The cover is a dark green and the spine has golden foil lettering.
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This is Volume 5 from the 1922 set ofAuthor’s National Edition of The Writing of Mark Twain . Each volume has a single drawing related to the contents, a standardized title page, and the inscription “This is the authorized Uniform Edition of my books. Mark Twain” — Note this is a copy of Mark Twain’s signature, NOT an original.
In this volume, Copyright 1922, there is PUDD'NHEAD WILSON and THOSE EXTRAORDINARY TWINS, both set in the fictional pre-Civil War Missouri town of Dawson's Landing. Twain, in his "Final Remarks," tells of how these two stories took on lives of their own and ended up taking form much differently than what was originally intended.
