Sam Clemens of Hannibal - The Formative Years of America's Great Indigenous Writer

335 Pages Indexed. Attractive colorful stiff covers. No marks or stamps on this straight clean tight book. Sentry Edition #SE9. Cover price was $1.85. Sentry Editions were books of lifetime interest, intended not for casual reading but for life on the shelf as well as in the hand. They were printed on paper of good quality in a binding that has the durability of cloth but the price and compactness of paper. A biography of Twain's youth by a Texas native and Baylor graduate who later became editor of the Mark Twain Papers. Sixteen chapters: Damn the Ancestors, The Lampton Side, The Tennessee Land, Florida An Almost Invisible Town, The Idyl Begins, Judge Clemens in Hannibal, Reading Writing and Religion, Summers At The Farm, The Precous Gift of Death, The Little Family, The Gang, On the Prowl, Instruments of Culture, The Printer's Devil, Orion and Sam, and To Desitny I Bend.