Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain

 

 

 

1601 or "A FIRESIDE CONVERSATION IN YE TIME OF QUEEN ELIZABETH". by Mark Twain.
A strange piece by Samuel Clemens. Risque and vulgar, but historic. Facsimile of 1934 edition. Written in Elizabethan English, Twain describes a conversation of topics generally taboo. Twain observed about his work "if there is a decent word findable in it, it is because I overlooked it." Illustrated with a few raucous drawings, 28 pages.
Check stock. ISBN: 0-86541-025-9. Order #: FILT3265 paper$20.00.

 

AROUND THE WORLD WITH MARK TWAIN. by Robert Cooper.
In 1895 Twain made a worldwide tour entertaining more than 100 audiences across North America--to Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, India, Sri Lanka, and South Africa. Here author Cooper retraces that journey with his and Twain's insights along the way. Appendix lists stops and performances; historical photographs, 420 pages, index.
ISBN: 1-55970-522-1. 2000. Order #: MISC2756 cloth$27.95.

 

 

THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY. by Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain).
Facsimile of 1875 edition of Clemens' hilarious story "rescued" from a translation into French. The 1875 edition of Mark Twain's tale of Jim Smiley and his jumping frog. 32 pages, illustrated. Out of print this centennial edition.
ISBN: 978-0-910584-02-9. Order #: FILT4512 paper$6.00.

 

 

 

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MARK TWAIN IN HAWAII--the noted humorist's 1866 visit. by Mark Twain.
The noted humorist's account of his 1866 trip to Hawaii, made at a time when the islands were still more for the natives than for the tourists. Yet Twain visits many of the sites and tries his hand at many of the activities that modern tourists do--he surfs, goes for an ocean canoe ride, sees the City of Refuge, visits the volcano, studies the nobility, and watches the hula. Twain the dreamer admired Hawaii, land of dreams, and he even writes seriously of the scenery, on occasion. Illustrations are from the original edition of the work, with others added from a similar time period from other sources. 96 pages. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-070-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-070-6. 1999. Order #: VIST0070 paper$6.95.

MARK TWAIN'S VIRGINIA CITY: Nevada Territory in the 1860s. by Mark Twain. (Samuel Clemens).
Here are the famous humorist's adventures in and around early Virginia City, Nevada Territory (now Nevada state). There are silver mining, speculation in silver mines, work in a quartz mill. A trip to Lake Tahoe to secure a timber empire resulted mainly in starting a forest fire. There was the search for the Lost Cement Mine, and, finally, reporting for The Territorial Enterprise, Virginia City's rollicking newspaper that reported the episodes of riches and murders rampant in this important Western mining center. The writings here were first published in 1872 in "Roughing It", but we have pulled from the larger work just episodes on Virginia City in order to maintain that as a focus. Read these Twain anecdotes for fun, but, remember, too, that these incidents really happened, and that the principals were often in dead earnest; it just took Twain's insights to show the satirical side of human nature. Illustrations are from the original book and other sources. 64 pages. See sample pages, illustrtionss.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-074-6. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-074-4. Order #: VIST0074 paper$6.95.

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