TWAIN, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens].
Mark Twain's Autobiography.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers , 1924.
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"In this autobiography I shall keep in mind the fact that I am speaking from the grave": First edition of Mark Twain's Autobiography
First editions 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. Fine in near fine original dust jackets. Housed in the original publisher's slipcase. 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."
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