New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1910. First Edition. Very good+ in its original light green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and with red and gilt text on the front board and with the top edge of the text block gilt. An octavo of 8 1/8 by 5 3/8 inches with slight tanning to the cloth on the spine, a small dent to the fore edge of the front board impacted on the preliminaries to the first page of text in the form of a very small, barely noticeable dent and with a faint dampness stain at the top margins of pages 98 and the plate which faces that page. Without a dust jacket. 187 pages illustrated with a double frontispiece portrait of Twain from a photograph and a portrait of the author also from a photograph and six plates from engravings and photographs.

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Bookseller: Town's End Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: TB30881
Title: My Mark Twain Reminiscences and Criticisms
Author: Howells, W. D
Book Condition: Used
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1910

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