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 the front 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.
Product Details
This is Volume 8 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, is LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI, a memoir of Twain’s time as a steamboat pilot who traveled the Mississippi River prior to the Civil War. Looking back on his time many years following the Civil War, Twain may interject some tall tales into his narrative, but the emotional comparison to how the River and the landscape have changed (before and after the War) will sound familiar even to us today.