first edition Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
1940 · New York
by TWAIN, Mark. Edited By Bernard DeVoto
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Fine. Octavo. ("K-P" on copyright page) 402 pages. Bound in original terra-cotta cloth; near fine in a fine dust jacket. One of only 7,000 copies printed. The editor selected unpublished parts of Twain's autobiography, which was copyrighted in 1922. Tasteful bookplate front paste-down. A lovely copy in like dust jacket. BAL 3564. (Inventory #: 6447)