encounter interviewer lotos leaves de twain mark (3 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. The first appearance of this Twain story. Welch-Bigelow device on copyright page; decorated brown cloth. Moderate foxing; hinges cracked; 1/2" open tear at spine base. A good copy. Heavy: extra postage may apply.

5 unbound leaves [pages 27-32]. 4to. "Sam Clemens interviews Mark Twain" was an idea for a sketch that Mark Twain proposed in his journal near the end of his career. He never wrote that. For a volume titled Lotos Leaves, edited by John Brougham and John Elderkin and issued in November, 1874, however, he did write this somewhat surreal sketch, about his own (non-existent) twin brother. This is his earliest rehearsal of the trope of changelings that he employs in both The Prince and the Pauper and Pudd'nhead Wilson. Later Twain used versions of this "encounter" as part of his live performances. BAL 3363 Unbound wrappers, light toning, chipping along spine edge where binding was removed, else a very good copy of a scarce significant Mark Twain work 5 unbound leaves [pages 27-32]. 4to.

Original Stories, Essays, and Poems. Edited by John Brougham and John Elderkin. Illustrated. Boston: William F. Gill and Company, 1875. Original brown cloth elaborately decorated in black and gilt, beveled edges, all page edges gilt. First Edition, first printing (with the proper issue points on both sides of the title leaf) -- of this oversize compendium of "stories, essays, and poems," published (actually in November 1874) to benefit the American Dramatic Fund, via the Lotos Club in New York City (a literary society founded in 1870, still active today). This is the first appearance of Twain's humorous parody, primarily in dialogue; it would later (1878) be collected in his PUNCH, BROTHERS, PUNCH! (in one edition of which, Twain would add this post script: "I thought I could make this interview as unreliable and incoherent as the average newspaper interview. But that was another of my mistakes"). Other contributors include Wilkie Collins ("A Fatal Fortune" -- which appeared as "A Mad Marriage" in All The Year Round the month before, and was later collected in the 1875 edition of MISS OR MRS?) -- and the dedicatee of this volume, Alfred Tennyson ("The Lotos-Eaters"). This is a hefty (4-pound, 410-page) book, in very good-plus condition (quite minor edge-wear) -- which is remarkable, given its size. Blanck 3363.