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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. ILLUSTRATED. : Illustrated by True Williams (Mobi Classics), Mark Twain, 2008,, 197 pages. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, is a popular 1876 novel about a young boy growing up in the Antebellum South on the Mississippi River in the fictional town of St... Is Shakespeare Dead?, Mark Twain, 2005, Great Britain,. When Shakespeare died, in 1616, great literary productions attributed to him as author had been before the London world and in high favor for twenty-four years. Yet his death... 1601, or Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the time of the Tudors is a hilarious ribald send-up of Elizabethan England in which Queen Elizabeth, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Sir Walter Raleigh, and other luminaries of the period are pictured sitting about the fireplace amusing one another with risqué tales. During a visit to West Point in 1881, Twain met Lieutenant Charles Erskine Scott Wood, adjutant to the commanding general. As Leslie Fiedler notes in his afterword, "he discovered not only that Wood, like him, was a freethinker, but that he had at his disposal a well-equipped printing plant." He asked Wood to publish the piece, and it is the West Point edition--complete with the Old English-style type Wood selected--that is printed here. If "in 1601 Twain both parodied and paid homage to Shakespeare's liberating bawdry," Erica Jong observes in her introduction, in "Is Shakespeare Dead? he tried to come to terms with his conflicting responses to Shakespeare as mentor and muse." Jong suggests that Twain's real concern in this book may well be his own "place in literary history." Yes, this IS a fart joke. In fact, rumor has it that Twain's poker buddies were its first readers. The then Sec'y of the Army had West Point Press publish it.the transcendant skill and humor raises this to greatness, despite the subject. In fact, Twain probably took this as a huge challenge.keep it from the youngest until they can appreciate it, but read it aloud alone together every Valentine's day. In "Is Shakespeare Dead?" Twain entered the Shakespeare authorship debate with a bang. The work is pure Twain brilliance. Twain begins by listing the absolute known facts about Shakespeare of Stratford, which can fit nicely on one sheet of paper. He then examines the thousands of pages of Stratford Shakespeare biographies written by academics, and in his own hilariously sarcastic way mocks these "surmisers of surmised facts" explaining how they have inflated a "chipmunk's trail through Stratford" into a literary "Hercules" of renown. Twain next speaks of "authentic authorship" by pointing out with convincing detail that unless you have walked the walk, you can't talk the talk. For example, he says Bret Harte attempted to write stories about life as a Mississipi riverboat captain or a sailor on the high seas, but that any real riverboat captain or sailor could tell in the first few lines that Harte was writing from book learning, not from actual experience as a captain or sailor. Twain nicely says that authors (no matter how brilliant) can't fake the language and tone of real experience when it comes to endeavors involving high levels of skill. You have to walk the walk to convincingly talk the talk. He then proceeds to point out one simple fact: the Shake-speare canon was written by a man who was deeply experienced in sixteenth-century law and legal procedures--as numerous legal historians of that period have attested--deeply experienced, not just a law clerk for a short period. Twain then proceeds to point out that not one shred of evidence exists that Stratford Shakespeare even served as a law clerk, let alone a deeply experienced barrister or judge.read more Book Description: Chatto & Windus, U.K., 1893. Hardcover. Book Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 311 pages and a 32 page catalogue dated March 1893 to rear. Book - in Good red coloured boards, pictorial front board and spine - slight marking to boards and sunning to spine but lettering still distinct, some bumping and rubbing to corners and some small splits to ends of spine. Contents, clean, bright and tightly bound, previous owner's name to 'Mark Twain's Other Works' page. Dust Jacket - None. Size: 7.5 inches tall by 5 inches. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 201-750 grams. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 9994097. Bookseller Inventory # 9994097
Book Description: Charles L. Webster & Co., New York, 1893. Hardcover. Book Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1,000,000 Banknote by Mark Twain. First printing with publishing date on both the title-page and copyright page. Rebound in dark brown ¾ leather with brown pebble design marbled paper. As new binding. Paper labels. Publisher: Charles L. Webster & Co., New York, 1893. Exceptionally clean copy with gilding on top edge. 260 pages plus ads in back. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #12-215. Price: $400. Bookseller Inventory # 12-215 Book Description: Oxford University Press, New York, 1996. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition Book is in near fine condition in a near fine dj. A delightful collection of diverse tales-short stories, essays, & travel pieces. 295 pages. Bookseller Inventory # 2338 Book Description: Charles L. Webster, 1893. Decorative Cloth. Book Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Front hinge strengthened with archival glue, back hinge just starting. There are nine pages of ads in back The spine is very slightly darker than the rest of the cover. Bookseller Inventory # 000908 Book Description: TWAIN, Mark. 1601: Or Conversation As It Was At The Fireside In The Timeof the Tudors and Sketches Old and New. NY: The Golden Hind Press, 1933, 1933..Small 4to., cloth in dust jacket. First Edition thus. Very Good; someedgewear (shallow chip top of rear panel). d/j. Bookseller Inventory # 42587 Book Description: Lyle Stuart, New York. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Nice copy of this scarce book. Beautiful full-page woodcut. Includes much detail about the story. Includes text of 1st edition and the West Point edition in facsimile. Includes 11 pages of bibliographies. Privately printed. Bookseller Inventory # 000077 Book Description: London, Land's End Press, copy. 1969, 1st edition thus, appears to be a limited edition, blue pictorial hardcover (illustration matches the dust jacket ill.), very good or better, slight rubs to cover extremities, good mildly edge-nicked and sunned dust jacket, short closed edge-tears, ills. by Alan Odle, the pages are french-folded (i.e., printed on 1 side but folded so that printed pages are back to back to appear as if printed on both sides), printed in blue ink, internally fine and unmarked, 9-1/4"x12-1/2", about 24 pages (unpaginated). Very unusual. fxx. Bookseller Inventory # 68708 Book Description: Oxford Univ Press, NY, 1996. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine copy, dj has minor shelf wear rubbing. A ribald send up of Elizabethan England in which Queen Elizabeth, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Sir Walter Raleigh, and other luminaries of the period are pictured sitting about the fireplace amusing one another with risque trales. Twin both parodied and paid homage to Shakespeare's liberating bawdry. xlii/150/29pp. Desirable!. Bookseller Inventory # 47218 Book Description: Oxford Univ Pr, 1996. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 1601 is Twain's hilarious pornographic send-up of Elizabethan England. In Is Shakespeare Dead?, an aging Twain meditates on Shakespeare and on his own chances for immortality. Bookseller Inventory # 040468 Book Description: Hardcover; First Printing. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine unread Condition. Overall, a clean and tight copy to add to a collection or read and enjoy. Oxford University Press, USA, 1996. 1st Edition Thus/1st Printing. Fine Book in Fine Dust Jacket. Dust Jacket protected with a new archival cover. Bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. Bookseller Inventory # 040350 Book Description: The Blackcat Press, Chicago, USA, 1936. Original Decorative Cloth. Book Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. The First Edition has this very rare and collectable modern first edition book for sale, Mark Twain 1601 Or Conversation at the Social Fireside as it Was in the Time of the Tudors. This book was published by The Black Cat Press in Chicago, USA. This
book was a limited edition of just 300. The Limitation Page to the end o f this book reads as follows: "PRINTER'S NOTE 300 copies of this volume have been printed direct from hand-set Caslon type on Worthy Coronet paper by Norman W. Forgue, who Designed and set the type, assisted by Norman Johnson at the case. The woodcut frontispiece and title page decoration by Ben Albert Benson are printed from the original wood blocks Completed at Chicago, March 1936". This book is accompanied "With Notes on Mark Twain's "1601" and a Check-list of Various Editions and Reprints Compiled by Irvin Haas" The boards are red, with the front board is stamped in gilt 1601 within an elaborate gilt border. The boards are in Fine condition. There are 39 numbered pages. The endpapers have a marbled effect orange pattern. All the pages are in Fine condition, with many unopened and so we can safely assume that this book has not been read. This is an incredibly rare and collectable Mark Twain book that will be the centrepiece of any Mark Twain book collection. Limited Edition. Bookseller Inventory # 000709 Book Description: Lyle Stuart ND (ca 1960), NY, 1960. First Edition. Fine in a VG+ slipcase with light wear to corner. The author imagines a conversation between Elizabeth, Shakespeare, Sir Walter Raleigh, Ben Jonson and others in the style of Rabelais. "With an Illuminating Introduction, Facetious Footnotes and a Bibliography by Franklin J. Meine". Bookseller Inventory # 135052 Book Description: Privately Printed, New York, 1924. Original Cloth. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. 12mo; [40] pages. Reprinted from the original publication of 1880, this is an attractive private publication of 125 copies, this one being out of series, not numbered. Many pages still unopened in about Fine condition with the occasional foxing spot. In Near Fine, slightly yellowed glassine wrapper; "'1601' is a clever sketch of a great humorist, a great satirist, a great humanitarian. It ought to be preserved in libraries for the benefit of those interested, to be set afloat to live wherever it is willed to live". - Charles Erskine Scott Wood, adjutant at West Point. Bookseller Inventory # 29439 Book Description: Chicago The Black Cat Press, 1936. Hardcover. Book Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. 39 pages. 1/2" tear head of spine with 1/4" piece missing. Fraying at corners. 3/4" tear along bottom edge near corner. Sunning strip top front cover. Falcon Press bookplate front endpaper. Else, good condition. (F2). Bookseller Inventory # 2398 Book Description: Promontory Press, New York, 1976. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. 4to 11" - 13" tall; 352 pages; Minor handling and edgewear to the dust jacket. Illustrated with drawings and photographs throughout. Bookseller Inventory # 13770 Book Description: The Mark Twain Society of Chicago, Chicago, 1939. Softcover. Book Condition: Good+. Limited Edition. Wraps have some spots and stains, top right corner creased. ; This edition includes a facsimile of the first edition, a facsimile of the West Point edition, and an introduction, footnotes and bibliography by Franklin J. Meine. The edition was limited to 1000 copies. This one is not numbered. ; Thin 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 80 pages. Bookseller Inventory # 6263 Book Description: Subscription Only,, London, 1936. VG/no DJ. 1st edition. 8 1/2 x 11 in. black HB with yellow (faded gilt?) illus. of magician, 27 pp., text & illus. printed on yellow. No. 189 of 950 copies. A very good, unmarked copy with light wear on front spine edge & spine ends; bumped corners; gutter splitting at top two inches of spine, book opens flat, but pages secure. No jacket. 10 oz. Printed for Subscription Only and are to be sold at ye beare Back-Side in Maiden Lane, London. Bookseller Inventory # 5302 Book Description: Devil's Hole. Cloth. Book Condition: Very Good +. Limited Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. One of 125 copies. Bound in purple cloth. No letters or imprints on the cover. No date is given. 32 pages, which includes a 10 page afterword. Bookplate on front pastedown; very lightly rubbed 1/2 in. spot on front fep. Cover's corners are very lightly rubbed. Scans e-mailed upon request. Bookseller Inventory # 002156 For William Dean Howells, Mark Twain was the Lincoln of our literature ; for William
Faulkner, he was the first truly American writer, and for Eugene O Neill, the true father of American literature. Ernest Hemingway famously asserted that all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. During his lifetime and in the hundred years since his death, Mark Twain has been one of the most beloved and widely read of authors, not just in America but around the world. He has been especially cherished by other writers, who have drawn inspiration from many different aspects of his work. The Mark Twain Anthology brings together the words of over 60 writers, from his earliest reviewers to today, probing the many facets of Mark Twain: his incomparable humor, his revolutionary use of vernacular language, his exploration of the realities of American life, his irreverence and skepticism, his profound grappling with issues of race, his fearless opposition to the injustices and outrages of an imperialistic age. The range of voices is extraordinarily diverse, a tribute to the diversity and complexity of Twain s art. During his lifetime Twain was reviewed, interviewed, and assessed by writers as different as Lafcadio Hearn, José Martí, Rudyard Kipling, and George Bernard Shaw. They were joined, in the century that followed, by G. K. Chesterton, H. L. Mencken, Jorge Luis Borges, Theodore Dreiser, George Orwell, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Ralph Ellison, and many others, with recent commentary by David Bradley, Erica Jong, Toni Morrison, Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut, Dick Gregory, Min Jin Lee, and Roy Blount Jr. Of special interest is Twain s international impact. The Mark Twain Anthology presents a broad selection of responses to Twain from Europe, Asia, and Latin America, many of the pieces translated for the first time. The book also includes a selection of visual tributes to Twain (by artists ranging from James Montgomery Flagg to Jean Cocteau to Chuck Jones) and a sampler of shorter comments by individuals as varied as Friedrich Nietzsche, Harry S. Truman, Richard Pryor, Gertrude Stein, and Charles Darwin. Shelley Fisher Fishkin, volume editor, is Professor of English and Director of American Studies at Stanford University. She is the author or editor of 33 books on Mark Twain including Lighting Out for the Territory: Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture; Was Huck Black? Mark Twain and African-American Voices; Mark Twain s Book of Animals; and the 29-volume Oxford Mark Twain. She has served as president of the American Studies Association and of the Mark Twain Circle of America, and was a producer of Mark Twain s Is He Dead? on Broadway. She is a founding editor of the Journal of Transnational American Studies.