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Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. CLASSIC: COMPELLING: NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1982) Fourth Printing (c 1988), NEW slipcase w/ double-ruled borders & LOA-logo on front panel & w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW blue Brillianta fabric over boards cover w/ excellent NEW edges & corners, titles & Library of America colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE white-on-blue patterned end-papers on heavy stock, PRISTINE interior printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB acid-free Olin Nyalite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.48", 0.68 kg, 1084 pp; w/ slipcase: 5.36" x 8.46" x 1.54", 0.81 kg, 1084 pp. * CONTENTS: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1), Life on the Mississippi (217), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (617), Pudd'nhead Wilson (913), Chronology (1057), Note on the Texts (1065), Notes (1071) * ABOUT THE BOOK: Mark Twain is perhaps the most widely read & enjoyed of all our national writers. This LOA collection presents his best-known works, together for the first time in one volume. 'Tom Sawyer' "is simply a hymn", said its author, "put into prose form to give it a worldly air", a book where nostalgia is so strong that it dissolves the tensions & perplexities that assert themselves in the later works. Twain began 'Huckleberry Finn' the same year 'Tom Sawyer' was published, but he was unable to complete it for several more. It was during this period of uncertainty that Twain made a pilgrimage to the scenes of his childhood in Hannibal, Missouri, a trip that led eventually to 'Life on the Mississippi'. The river in Twain's descriptions is a bewitching mixture of beauty & power, seductive calms & treacherous shoals, pleasure & terror, an image of the societies it touches & transports. Each of these works is filled w/ comic & melodramatic adventure, w/ horseplay & poetic evocations of scenery, & w/ characters who have become central to American mythology (not only Tom Sawyer Huck Finn, but also Roxy, the mulatto slave in 'Puddn'head Wilson', one of the most telling portraits of a woman in American fiction. W/ each book there is evidence of a growing bafflement & despair, until w/ 'Puddn'head Wilson', high jinks & games, far from disguising the terrible cost of slavery, become instead its macabre evidence. Through each of 4 works, too, runs the Mississippi, the river that T. S. Eliot, echoing Twain, was to call the "strong brown god." For Twain, the river represented the complex & often contradictory possibilities in his own & his nation's life. The Mississippi marks the place where civilization, moving west w/ its comforts & proprieties, discovers & contends w/ the rough realities, violence, chicaneries, & promise of freedom on the frontier. It is the place, too, where the currents Mark Twain learned to navigate as a pilot (an experience recounted in 'Life on the Mississippi') move inexorably into the Deep South, so that the innocence of joyful play & boyhood along its shores eventually confronts the grim reality of slavery. ABOUT THE EDITOR: Guy Cardwell (1906-2005) was emeritus professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, & was the author of numerous books & articles about Mark Twain. * 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 nominal additional fee & via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL to all international shipments at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. CLASSIC: NEW Library of America First Edition hardcover (1984) Seventh Printing (c 2000): NEW handsomely-designed 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/ NEW edges & corners & w/ titles & LOA colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior But MARRED by black stroke mark at heel, 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 Olin Nyalite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.42, 0.68 kg, 1031 pp. / Slipcase: 5.36" x 8.46" x 1.54", 0.78 kg * CONTENTS: The Innocents Abroad (1), Roughing It (525); Chronology (987), Note on the Texts (995), Notes (1001) * ABOUT THE BOOK: The great American humorist describes his adventures traveling in Europe, the Middle East, & the American West: Twain's 1st great popular successes, these semi-autobiographical travel books take in the grand tour of Europe & the Holy Land, & real & imagined adventures during the Civil War in the West (including stagecoach travel & Indian, Mormon & Chinese society on the frontier) * HIGH PRAISE: "A piece of American history that Twain saw with his own eyes." -Wall Street Journal "Generous glimpses of a raw talent being shaped & mastered." - LA Times * 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 all international destinations at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. CLASSIC: COMPELLING: IMPECCABLE: NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1982) Fifteenth Printing (c. 2022), NEW mylar-protected LOA jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing $30.00 pub. price at bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW blue Brillianta fabric over boards cover w/ excellent NEW edges & corners & titles & Library of America colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE distinctive white-on-blue LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB unblemished acid-free Ecusta Nyalite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.48", 0.72 kg, 1084 pp * CONTENTS: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1), Life on the Mississippi (217), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (617), Pudd'nhead Wilson (913), Chronology (1057), Note on the Texts (1065), Notes (1071) * ABOUT THE BOOK: Mark Twain is perhaps the most widely read & enjoyed of all our national writers. This LOA collection presents his best-known works, together for the first time in one volume. 'Tom Sawyer' "is simply a hymn", said its author, "put into prose form to give it a worldly air", a book where nostalgia is so strong that it dissolves the tensions & perplexities that assert themselves in the later works. Twain began 'Huckleberry Finn' the same year 'Tom Sawyer' was published, but he was unable to complete it for several more. It was during this period of uncertainty that Twain made a pilgrimage to the scenes of his childhood in Hannibal, Missouri, a trip that led eventually to 'Life on the Mississippi'. The river in Twain's descriptions is a bewitching mixture of beauty & power, seductive calms & treacherous shoals, pleasure & terror, an image of the societies it touches & transports. Ea. of these works is filled w/ comic & melodramatic adventure, w/ horseplay & poetic evocations of scenery, & w/ characters who have become central to American mythology (not only Tom Sawyer Huck Finn, but also Roxy, the mulatto slave in 'Puddn'head Wilson', one of the most telling portraits of a woman in American fiction. W/ each book there is evidence of a growing bafflement & despair, until w/ 'Puddn'head Wilson', high jinks & games, far from disguising the terrible cost of slavery, become instead its macabre evidence. Through each of 4 works, too, runs the Mississippi, the river that T. S. Eliot, echoing Twain, was to call the "strong brown god." For Twain, the river represented the complex & often contradictory possibilities in his own & his nation's life. The Mississippi marks the place where civilization, moving west w/ its comforts & proprieties, discovers & contends w/ the rough realities, violence, chicaneries, & promise of freedom on the frontier. It is the place, too, where the currents Mark Twain learned to navigate as a pilot (an experience recounted in 'Life on the Mississippi') move inexorably into the Deep South, so that the innocence of joyful play & boyhood along its shores eventually confronts the grim reality of slavery. ABOUT THE EDITOR: Guy Cardwell (1906-2005) was emeritus professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, & was the author of numerous books & articles about Mark Twain. * 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 nominal additional fee & via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL to all international shipments at our posted rates.