NICHOLAS ANGELO
FINE ART

MARK TWAIN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY

With an Introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine

Two Volumes

Reissue - Second Edition - First Collier Edition

Hardbound - Burgundy Cloth/Gilt Lettering

Facsimile Signatures of Twain

Top Edges Gilt

Book Description: New York P.F. Collier and Son Company 1925

Book Condition:  Very Good/Bumped Spine & Corners

Rubbed/Bumped

Dust Jacket Condition:  No Dust Jackets (As Issued)

Frontispieces - Two Different Images of Twain

Large Octavo

Volume 1 - 361 Pages

Volume 2 - 357 Pages

First Collier Edition and a very early reissue of the first edition, essentially identical to the first issuance of 1924 but for the colour of the cloth and the imprint.

As might be expected of anything which Mark Twain wrote, this autobiography is unlike any other ever written-as unconventional and unorthodox as its great author. Always, when the time came for him to go on with the dictation, he chose as his subject whatever was most interesting to him at the moment, regardless of chronological order. For he believed that a man's thoughts, not his outward acts are his true history, which alone reveal him completely.  The resulting book is a stream of table-talk: anecdotes, humorous and serious; reminiscences of his mother, his daughter Susy, his boyhood days in Missouri; chronicles of his friendships with all manner of men, from General Grant and President Cleveland to his Irish coachman and the unfamed intimates of his vagabond youth; bold expressions of opinion on every sort of topic-all are here, full of the vigor and the humanity of their author, and forming an inexhaustible mine of entertainment, amusement, and delight. The Autobiography was dictated by Twain over several years with the stipulation that it be published only after his death.