Book #29029

Mark Twain In Elmira

Robert D. Jerome, Herbert A. Wisbey Jr
Mark Twain In Elmira. Robert D. Jerome, Herbert A. Wisbey Jr.
Mark Twain In Elmira

Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition; Fourth Printing; Signed by All Authors
Size: 8vo
Publisher: Elmira, NY: Mark Twain Society, Inc., 1977.

A handsome first edition, later printing in Fine condition. SIGNED by both authors, Robert D. Jerome and Herbert A. Wisbey, Jr. directly on the front end paper.

Mark Twain spent a good portion of his life in Elmira, NY with his wife Olivia Langdon and their children. Twain wrote some of his finest pieces at Quarry Farms during summers with his family in Elmira. Editors Jerome and Wisbey, in conjunction with the Mark Twain Society, wanted to contentrate on Twain's personal and literary experiences and associations while in Elmira to use as a focal point of this biography. Local newspapers and historical societies, as well as anecdotes and stories circulated by Elmira residents, provide information on Twain not previously seen ; xiv, 242 pages.

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Author Bio

Twain, Mark

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), pen name Mark Twain, was American humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and was called "the father of American literature" by American author William Faulkner.

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