Mark Twain’s Autobiography.

TWAIN, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens].

Item Number: 137154

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1924.

First edition, early printing of Twain’s famed autobiography. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Twain to each volume, top edge gilt. Introduction by Alfred Bigelow Paine. In near fine condition. A sharp example.

Mark Twain's Autobiography constitutes a lengthy set of reminiscences, dictated, for the most part, in the final years of his life and and left in both typescript and manuscript at his death. In his Preface: As From the Grave, he celebrated that the posthumous publication of this work allowed him to speak with his "whole frank mind", indeed, he states: "It has seemed to me that I could be as frank and free and unembarrassed as a love letter if I knew that what I was writing would be exposed to no eye until I was dear, and unaware, and indifferent."