Wapping Alice
first edition
1981 · Berkeley
by Twain, Mark
Berkeley: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1981 First edition. Designed and printed by the Arion Press in San Francisco. Introduction and Afterword by Hamlin Hill. 79pp. Frontis portrait, 2 plates from early photographs, 2 facsimiles. Green printed wrappers. A very fine copy. This Twain story, Wapping Alice, is printed here for the first time, together with three letters to Olivia Clemens. Another story, The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm (first published in Harper's, 1882) is also included, as well as portions of the Twain's autobiographical dictation of April 10, 1907.. (Inventory #: 7512)