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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. CLASSIC: NEW Library of America First Edition hardcover (1992) First Printing, NEW mylar-protected LOA jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $35.00 pub. price at bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW navy-blue rayon-weave Brillianta fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & w/ titles & LOA colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW smythe-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & blue-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps w/ blue silk ribbon page-marker bound-in from top, NEW white-on-blue LOA-logo-patterned card-stock front & back end-papers, pristine interior printed w/ remarkable clarity in 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB acid-free Ecusta Nyalite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.42, 0.69 kg, 1076 pp. * CONTENTS: Selections presented year-by-year (1-948); Chronology (949), Note on the Texts (998), Notes (1025), Index of Titles (1073) * ABOUT THE BOOK: This splendid volume, with its companion, offers the most comprehensive collection ever published of Mark Twain's short writings: the incomparable stories, sketches, burlesques, hoaxes, tall tales, speeches, satires & maxims of America's greatest humorist. Arranged chronologically & containing many pieces restored to the form in which Twain intended them to appear, the volumes show w/ unprecedented clarity the literary evolution of Mark Twain over six decades of his career. The nearly 200 separate items in this volume cover the years from 1852 to 1890. As a riverboat pilot, Confederate irregular, silver miner, frontier journalist & publisher, Twain witnessed the tragicomic beginning of the Civil War in Missouri, the frenzied opening of the West, & the feverish corruption, avarice & ambition of the Reconstruction era. He wrote about political bosses, jumping frogs, robber barons, cats, women's suffrage, temperance, petrified men, the bicycle, the Franco-Prussian War, the telephone, the income tax, the insanity defense, injudicious swearing, & the advisability of political candidates preemptively telling the worst about themselves before others get around to it. Among the stories included here are "Jim Smiley & His Jumping Frog," which won him instant fame when published in 1865, "Cannibalism in the Cars," "The Invalid's Story," & the charming "A Cat's Tale," written for his daughters' private amusement. This volume also presents several of his famous & successful speeches & toasts, such as "Woman? God Bless Her," "The Babies," & "Advice to Youth." Such writings brought Twain immense success on the public lecture & banquet circuit, as did his controversial "Whittier Birthday Speech," which portrayed Boston's most revered men of letters as a band of desperadoes. * The LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic).* SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Two vols. Adventures in the field: encounters with authors and their papers by the long-serving curator of American Literature at Yale. Pigeons is inscribed to Joan and Chester Kerr, the latter an American publisher of some note, 'my first readers .' and with a typed letter, signed to them from the author laid in. Both volumes fine in dustwrappers. The two volumes. inscribed by author. book.