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  First edition of Mark Twain's The American Claimant

  TWAIN, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens].

  The American Claimant.

  New York: Charles L. Webster, 1892.

  First edition of Twain's comedy of mistaken identities with the publication date on both the title and copyright page. BAL 3434. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated. From the library of William Safire with his bookplate to the pastedown. William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column “On Language” in The New York Times Magazine from 1979 until the month of his death and authored two books on grammar and linguistics: The New Language of Politics (1968) and what Zimmer called Safire’s “magnum opus,” Safire’s Political Dictionary. Safire later served as a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board from 1995 to 2004 and in 2006 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush. From the library of William Safire with his bookplate to the pastedown. William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidenti...

  Price: $850.00     Item Number: 127681

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