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Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. CLASSIC: NEW Library of America First Edition hardcover (1992) First Printing, NEW LOA jacket w/ sharp new edges & corners & showing $35.00 orig. 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 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, 0.70 kg, 1050 pp. * CONTENTS: Selections presented year-by-year (1-938); Appendix: More Maxims of Mark (939), Chronology (949), Note on the Texts (998), Notes (1016), Index of Titles (1049) * ABOUT THE BOOK: A collection of Twain's writings from his later years includes first-rate pieces that should be better known, as well as previously uncollected works that reflect the inner workings of one of the keenest minds in American history. * Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, & died at Redding, Connecticut in 1910. In his person & in his pursuits he was a man of extraordinary contrasts. Although he left school at 12 when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, & Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, & publisher. He made fortunes from his writing but toward the end of his life he had to resort to lecture tours to pay his debts. He was hot-tempered, profane, & sentimental, & also pessimistic, cynical, & tortured by self-doubt. His nostalgia helped produce some of his best books. He lives in American letters as a great artist, the writer whom William Dean Howells called "the Lincoln of our literature." * TheIBRARY 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. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. CLASSIC: IMPECCABLE: NEW Library of America First Edition hardcover (1992) First Printing, NEW LOA jacket w/ sharp new edges & corners & showing $35.00 orig. 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 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, 0.70 kg, 1050 pp. * CONTENTS: Selections presented year-by-year (1-938); Appendix: More Maxims of Mark (939), Chronology (949), Note on the Texts (998), Notes (1016), Index of Titles (1049) * ABOUT THE BOOK: A collection of Twain's writings from his later years includes first-rate pieces that should be better known, as well as previously uncollected works that reflect the inner workings of one of the keenest minds in American history. * ABOUT MARK TWAIN: MARK TWAIN was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, & died at Redding, Connecticut in 1910. In his person & in his pursuits he was a man of extraordinary contrasts. Although he left school at 12 when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, & Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, & publisher. He made fortunes from his writing but toward the end of his life he had to resort to lecture tours to pay his debts. He was hot-tempered, profane, & sentimental, & also pessimistic, cynical, & tortured by self-doubt. His nostalgia helped produce some of his best books. He lives in American letters as a great artist, the writer whom William Dean Howells called "the Lincoln of our literature." * TheIBRARY 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.