AMERICAN TITLE ASSOCIATION

"the Mark Twain Home and Museum - a Legal Opinion," By Harrison White (Found in Title News) March, 1957; Vol. XXXVI, No. 3

Detroit, MI: The American Title Assoication, 1957. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Stapled wraps. This is a trade sized booklet with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The book covers are generally clean and bright. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends and cover edges. The text pages are clean and bright. Contents include: Title Insurance by Hart McKillop, and A Legal Opinion, The Mark Twain Home and Museum by Harrison White.. Very Good .

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Book number: 44978

Catalogue: Author Biographies

Keywords: Author Biographies American Title Association Harrison White Mark Twain

HOWARD, JOYCE (COMPILED AND EDITED BY)

Letters from Henry Miller to Hoki Tokuda Miller

London, England: Robert Hale Ltd, 1990. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0709040113. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. This is a possible Remainder mark to the bottom edge of the text block. (the mark is not one of the usual shapes). The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has one tiny nick / rubbed spot to the top rear flap corner.. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 46465

Catalogue: Author Biographies

Keywords: 0709040113 Author Biographies Joyce Howard Henry Miller Hoki Tokuda Miller Correspondence Diaries

LORCH, FRED W.

The Trouble Begins at Eight Mark Twain's Lecture Tours

Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1968. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light rubbing and bumping. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has paatches of ground-in dirt and several spots of foxing, along with a couple of small edge nicks and a tiny chip. "The overseas performances were billed (presumably by Smythe) as "Mark Twain at Home." The North American performances were advertised simply as "Mark Twain Reading and Talking." MT used one basic talk the whole way around the world, a comic sermon on building up one's moral character by committing all 462 possible sins. This structure allowed him to use as illustrations many different pieces of material, from all phases of his career. These included the story of stealing an unripe watermelon, grandfather's old ram, the Mexican plug, the christening story, the whistling stammerer and, as the almost invariable wind up, the golden arm. In some stops he enacted the scene from Huck Finn in which Huck resolves to "go to hell" for his friend Jim; in some others he used a scene from Tom Sawyer Abroad. " (from Mark Twain Lib. Virginia Univ. ). Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 44744

Catalogue: Author Biographies

Keywords: Author Biographies Fred W. Lorch Lecture Tours Mark Twain Samuel Langehorne Clemens

PICKARD, SAMUEL T.

Whittier-Land a Handbook of North Essex; Containing Many Anecdotes and Poems By John Greenleaf Whittier Never Before Published

Boston And New York, NY: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1904. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping and rubbing to the spine and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's bookplate (F. E. Perham) on the front pastedown page, along with an inked date, and another previous owner's address label.. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 46710

Catalogue: Author Biographies

Keywords: Author Biographies Samuel T. Pickard Poetry John Greenleaf Whittier Massachusetts

SHINE, WALTER AND JEAN SHINE

A Bibliography of the Published Works of John D. Macdonald with Selected Biographical Materials and Critical Essays

Gainesville, FL: Patrons of the Libraries, 1980. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Spiral bound. This is an oversized paperback with a spiral binding. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are clean and bright. "Walter knew so much about JDM and his works that when MacDonald was still alive he would call Walter to refresh his own memory about a long-ago short story, or character. Walter's research allowed him to pride himself on being able to answer any JDM-question, posed by anyone, within 90 seconds. Any question. He was well-known to the staff of the MacDonald Collection, for he spent many long hours over the years painstakingly cross-referencing all items in the Collection in preparation for several publications of his works on JDM." (from the John D. MacDonald website). Very Good+ .

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Book number: 44758

Catalogue: Author Biographies

Keywords: Bibliographies Walter Shine Jean Shine John D. Macdonald Biography Mystery

STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS (EDITED, WITH AND INTRODUCTION BY SIDNEY COLVIN)

The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson Vol. 1 and 2

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; Two Volume Set. This set is in Very Good+ condition and the volumes are lacking dust jackets.. There is some light bumping, and wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. There is some beginning sunning to the spines of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There are previous owner's bookplates (Sheldon Pharis Patterson ) on the front pastedown pages of both volumes. "Stevenson was visiting a cousin in England in late 1873 (Stevenson was 23) when he met two people who became very important to him: Sidney Colvin and Fanny (Frances Jane) Sitwell. Sitwell was a 34-year-old woman with a son, who was separated from her husband. She attracted the devotion of many who met her, including Colvin, who married her in 1901. Stevenson was also drawn to her, and they kept up a warm correspondence over several years in which he wavered between the role of a suitor and a son (he addressed her as "Madonna"). Colvin became Stevenson's literary adviser and was the first editor of his letters after his death. He placed Stevenson's first paid contribution in The Portfolio, an essay titled "Roads". Stevenson was soon active in London literary life, becoming acquainted with many of the writers of the time, including Andrew Lang, Edmund Gosse and Leslie Stephen, the editor of The Cornhill Magazine, who took an interest in Stevenson's work. Stephen took Stevenson to visit a patient at the Edinburgh Infirmary named William Ernest Henley, an energetic and talkative poet with a wooden leg. Henley became a close friend and occasional literary collaborator, until a quarrel broke up the friendship in 1888, and he is often considered to be the inspiration for Long John Silver in Treasure Island. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .

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Book number: 46110

Catalogue: Author Biographies

Keywords: Author Biographies Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney Colvin Correspondence Writings American Authors