twains autobiography introduction albert von mark twain (6 Ergebnisse)

PREFACE AS FROM THE GRAVE In this Autobiography 1 shall keep in mind the fact that I am speaking from the grave. I am literally speaking from the grave, because I shall be dead when the book issues from the press. I speak from the grave rather than with my living tongue, for a good reason: 1 can speak thence freely. When a man is writing a book dealing with the privacies of his life?a book which is to be read while he is still alive?he shrinks from speaking his whole frank mind; all his attempts to do it fall, he recognizes that he is trying to do a thing which is wholly impossible to a human boing. The (rankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing. Sometimes there is a breach-of-promise case by and by; and when he sees his letter in print it makes him cruelly uncömfortable and he perceives that he neuer would have unbosomed himself to that lange and honest degree if he had known that he was writing for the public. He cannot find anything in the letter that was not true, honest, and respectworthy but no matter, he would have been very gutes Exemplar, altersgemäß gebräunt, Gesamtzustand gut * Verlag: Harper & Brothers, 1924 * Bindung: gebundene Ausgabe,

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. New York and London, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1924 HARDBACK Volume 2 ONLY 365 pages including index plus 2 pages of publisher's advertisements for their other Mark Twain books. Dark navy blue buckram with Mark Twain's signature in gilt on the front covers and gilt titles to the spine. has a frontispiece photograph of Mark Twain dictating his autobiography at Dublin, New Hampshire in 1906, also with captioned tissue protective sheet.paint stains and rubbing to covers, stamp to fep and extreme page edges browned but still in good tight clean reading order. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch.

Zustand: Very good. - Octavo, 9-1/2 inches high by 6-1/4 inches wide. Hardcover, two volumes bound in blue cloth titled in gilt on the spines with a facsimile of Twain's signature on the front covers. The top edges are gilt. There is minor soiling & rubbing to the covers. xvi & 368 pages; and [viii] & 365 pages plus 2 ads. Illustrated with a photogravure portrait frontispiece of Twain, with a printed tissue guard, in each volume. Very good. First editions, so stated, with the publication date indicated as "H-Y", August 1924. Speculative first state with 2 pages of ads in volume two, (BAL-3537).

Gut Hardcover Sehr gut. Zustand: 0. Text Englisch. ZWEI BÄNDE, VOLLSTÄNDIG. Beide Bände: Gestaltete Schutzumschläge, Rückentitelei, Randläsuren. Goldgeprägte Leineneinbände, jeweils Kopfschnitt vergoldet, Front-/Fußschnitt nicht ebarbiert, TADELLOS. Jeweils Namenseintragung auf Vorsatzblatt. ERSTER BAND: Frontispizportrait Twains, 368 Seiten. +++ ZWEITER BAND: Frontispizportrait Twains, 365 Seiten. Insgesamt nahezu NEUWERTIGER ZUSTAND. +++ Text english. A complete, clothbound 2 volumes-set with their original dustjackets, the latter with strong wear-marks. 368 and 365 pages, each with Twain's frontispiece- portraits. Former owner's name on each front end-paper. Near MINT CONDITION. " Here at last is the extraordinary book which Mark Twain dictated at intervals over a long period of years, with the stipulation that it should not be published until long after his death: " I am writing from the gave. On these terms only can a man be approximatively frank. He cannot be straitly & unqualifiedly frank either in the grave or out of it". +++ 16,3 x 24 cm je, Gewicht gesamt 2,4 kg. +++ Stichwörter/Keywords: Erinnerungen Memoirs amerikanische Literatur american literature Gewicht in Gramm: 2400.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 2 vols. Illus., 9.75 x 6.5", 3/4 crushed morocco; cloth; teg, 368pp with index; 365pp with index, covers a bit rubbed, minor chipping/bumping to three of the lower fore-corners, minor extremity wear, pp toned, a couple of pp roughly opened, some browning to pp334-345 of vol. 1, else a nice, handsome set of the FIRST EDITION of Twain's Autobiography. Decorative binding set.

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. Octavo. First edition, first issue. TWO VOLUMES. xvi[1]368, 2 blank; viii[1-365]2 ads, 3 blank. With inserted frontispieces. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. Pictorial dust jackets printed in blue, original publisher's slipcase showing edgewear. Dust jackets with a few small chips, volume I with a 1/2" x 3" loss at foot of front panel. Both volumes are fine, with no markings of any kind. BAL 3537.