Mark Twain and Southwestern Humor.

LYNN, Kenneth S.

$35.00

Item Number: 139811

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1959.

First edition of Lynn’s work examining the literary artistry of the legendary American writer. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a good dust jacket. Jacket design by Allan Seide.

"Kenneth Lynn's Mark Twain and Southwestern Humor is a fresh and exciting evaluation of a major tradition in American literature. His book is a sparkling survey of the continuity of American humor from the tall tale of the frontier to the perfection of the genre in Mark Twain" (Perry Miller).