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. Although the pages are yellowed, they are still attractive and readable. The cover is a dark green and the spine has golden foil lettering.
Product Details
This is Volume 7 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 1921, is the classic THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER, subtitled “A Tale for Young People of All Ages.” It was Twain’s first attempt at historical fiction and in the preface Twain states, “I will set down a tale as it was told to me by one who had it of his father, which latter had it of his father, this last having in like manner had it of his father—and so on, back and still back, three hundred years and more, the fathers transmitting it to the sons and so preserving it. It may be history, it may be only legend, a tradition. It may have happened, it may not have happened: but it could have happened. It may be that the wise and the learned believed it in the old days; it may be that only the unlearned and the simple loved it and credited it.”