The REAL TOM SAWYER
191740830New York: Harper & Brothers 1917. 1st printing. OCLC records 4 holding institutions. Printed paper wrappers stapled. Front wrapper with image of a seated Twain in his white suit cigar in mouth holding a kitten in his lap. General wear. Age toning. Very Good. Unpaginated though 13 pages of text including inner rear wrapper. "Kipling Meets Mark Twain" p. 13. Illustrated. 9-1/8" x 6" <br/><br/>"The story in this book is made up of extracts from the 'Life of Mark Twain' by Albert Bigelow Paine published by Harper & Brothers. In reading the following remember that Tom Sawyer was Mark Twain whose real name was Sam Clemens - Sid Sawyer was Henry Clemens - and Huck Finn was Tom Blankenship." The Kipling piece apparently first published in the New York Herald 1890 cf. Richards C513. [Harper & Brothers] unknown books
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