Mark Twain Himself in Words and Pictures

Mark Twain Himself, produced by Milton Meltzer, is a 303-page hardcover published by Bonanza Books, a division of Crown Publishers Inc. The dust jacket shows shelf-wear and surface rubbing and some small closed tears. Inside, the spine is slightly bumped but the rest of the book is in very good condition. Book Summary Mark Twain's life was an "unswerving regularity of irregularity," he said. He reached old age by “sticking strictly to a scheme of Life which would kill anybody else.” That life-- one of the rarest, richest, and raciest America has known-- is captured here in a delightful mosaic of words and pictures. The words are Twain's own, taken from the vast variety of his writing-- not only the autobiography, but his letters, notebooks, newspaper reporting, sketches, travel pieces, even fiction. The pictures--more than 600--counterpoint Twain's text. Here is Mark himself, from The apprentice in his printers cap to the dying world famous figure finishing his last voyage in a wheelc