New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. A posthumous collection of miscellaneous writings by Samuel Langhorne Clemens a/k/a Mark Twain, the canonical American humorist & author. With many theretofore unpublished writings from Twain's long & most-prolific career, as noted in the Introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine (1861-1937), Twain's close friend & writer of his first comprehensive three-volume biography (1912, see our item No. 4251). Also with many..... More

Berkeley, CA: The Friends of the Bancroft Library/ University of California, 1972. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Three versions of a classic early tale by Samuel Langhorne Clemens a/k/a Mark Twain (1835-1910), the canonical American humorist & author. As explained in the Introductory Note by editors Frederick Anderson & Edgar M. Branch, this story first appeared as a column-article in the San Francisco Morning (or Daily) Call newspaper on August 30..... More

New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Subtitled "From My Autobiography," this is a very late, short nonfictional work in the oeuvre of Samuel Langhorne Clemens a/k/a Mark Twain, the canonical American humorist & author. In this volume, Twain weighs in on the controversy as to the authorship of the immortal dramatic works attributed to William Shakespeare. Twain concludes that it was Shakespeare's contemporary Francis Bacon who..... More

New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. "Set in the quaint hollow of Deer Lick, a mythical town resembling Mark Twain's Hannibal, Missouri, this bizarre tale chronicles the fortunes of a humble farmer, John Gray, determined to marry off his daughter, Mary, to the scion of the town's wealthiest family. But the sudden appearance of a stranger found lying unconscious in the snow not only derails..... More

New York, NY: Harper & Row; Oxford University Press, 1984; 1996. First Editions Thus. Hardcovers. Two collectible compilations of transcribed speeches by Samuel Langhorne Clemens a/k/a Mark Twain (1835-1910), the canonical American humorist & author: (1) Plymouth Rock & the Pilgrims and Other Salutary Platform Opinions, Harper & Row, 1984. Hardcover in clipped dust jacket, first edition as stated on copyright page, first printing as indicated by number sequence thereon..... More

Berkeley & Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY: University of California Press; Oxford University Press, 1993; 1996. First Editions Thus. Hardcovers. Two scholarly editions of the classic early work by Samuel Langhorne Clemens a/k/a Mark Twain (1835-1910), the canonical American humorist & author: (1) Roughing It, "A publication of the/ Mark Twain Project of the Bancroft Library/ University of California Press" (title page), 1993. Restored text (see front flap quote..... More

n/p; Berkeley, CA; New York, NY: Belford & Co.; The Iowa Center for Textual Studies/ University of California Press; Oxford University Press, 1880; 1979; 1996. Early Pirated Edition; First Editions Thus. Hardcovers. Three related rarities by Samuel Langhorne Clemens a/k/a Mark Twain (1835-1910), the canonical American humorist & author: (1) Sketches by Mark Twain, Belford & Co., 1880, "Now Published in Complete Form" as noted on title page. This is..... More

Hartford, CT; New York, NY: American Publishing Company; Oxford University Press, 1897; 1996. Early Edition; First Trade Edition Thus. Hardcovers. Two collectible versions of the classic travelogue by Samuel Langhorne Clemens a/k/a Mark Twain, the canonical American Humorist & writer: (1) A Tramp Abroad, American Publishing Company's 1897 printing of the work it first published in 1880, a sequel to The Innocents Abroad (see our Item No. 4246). Hardcover in..... More

n/p: Beatdom Books, 2017. First Edition. Softcover. "Allen Ginsberg told John Tytell that he would not understand the Beat Generation without first experiencing life in Mexico, and so, while writing Naked Angels, the first book to explore the development of Beat literature, Tytell headed south to Oaxaca. In this volume, Tytell examines the importance of Mexico to the Beat Generation, while recounting- via letters from that period to his wife..... More

Philadelphia, PA (1) / New York, NY (2): Running Press (1) / Anchor Books (2), 2007 (1) / (2) 1965. First Printing. Hardcover (1) / Softcover (2). (1) If the descriptor "a great coffee table book" did not mean a book whose entire existence consists of rarely being looked at, needlessly occupying table space and hopefully dodging spills and stains from them--and if it meant a book which can be..... More

New York, NY: AMS Press, Inc., 1969. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Diane Wakoski. This early, vintage number of the literary journal co-edited & with contributions by John Hopper includes the poem "With Words" by Diane Wakoski, the venerable & prolific poet who has long resided in Michigan. Just below her printed name above the poem on page 26, Wakoski has hand-written her signature with characteristic series of vertical doodles..... More

New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. "Charters learned Beat volume is a handy compilation of historic poetic signposts and spiritual milestones for youths and scholars who've begun their studies of a progressive literary explosion that shook the walls of cities on both sides of the Iron Curtain." (Allen Ginsberg, from Back Cover). This exceptional collection, edited by one of the most pioneering and legendary Beat-&-Beyond scholars, the..... More

Kyoto, Japan: Origin Press, 1978. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "No spirit of community is found amongst men who only work/ in common without communion to impose on a world which/ refuses the changing of it which they desire." (first paragraph, inner front cover preamble) The fourth number in the fourth series of the legendary literary journal edited, published & with contribution by the great expatriate American poet & translator Cid..... More