Description
Condition
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. There is a separation between the picture plate and title page, but overall the text block remains intact. The cover is a dark green and the spine has golden foil lettering.
Product Details
This is Volume 2 from the 1922 set of Author’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 1917, there are two Tom Sawyer books: TOM SAWYER ABROAD and TOM SAWYER, DETECTIVE. The volume also includes these “Other Stories” (short stories, letters, essays, and speeches):
- “The Stolen White Elephant” (which had been left out of A Tramp Abroad)
- “Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion”
- “The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut”
- “About Magnanimous-Incident Literature”
- “Punch, Brothers, Punch”
- “The Great Revolution in Pitcairn”
- “On the Decay of the Art of Lying”
- “The Canvasser’s Tale”
- “An Encounter with an Interviewer”
- “Paris Notes”
- “Legend of Sagenfeld, in Germany” (which also had been left out of A Tramp Abroad)
- “Speech on the Babies”
- “Speech on the Weather”
- “Concerning the American Language” (which was part of a chapter Twain said got ‘crowded out of A Tramp Abroad“)
- “Rogers”
- “The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton”
- “Map of Paris” (written about 1871)
- “Letter Read at a Dinner”