Twain Mark Ivan Benson (2 results)

Condition: GOOD. First printing in wrappers, a slim pamphlet. A "bulletin prepared for the public schools in the hope that a brief story of his life and travels here and in Western Nevada will add interest to his books." Illustrated with photographs, chronology, calendar of his travels in the West, books about Mark Twain. vii, 30 pp. Good only (some dampstaining and bleeding to upper edges of several pages).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Octavo; x, 218 pages, brown cloth "At twenty-five Samuel Clemens had written nothing of literary distinction, and, as Paine says, had shown no signs of an ambition to become a writer. The development whereby he was to dopt writing as a life career was to come during his five and one-half years in the frontier West." - p1. Illustrated. Includes a List of References, Periodical bibliography, and an Appendix of selected Mark Twain western items.