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Mark Twain; Charles Dudley WarnerBiblio.com

The Gilded Age

Twain, Mark and Charles Dudley Warner [Samuel L Clemens]Biblio.com

1874133018London: George Routledge and Sons 1874. First English edition of the rarest of Mark Twain's works: the only novel he wrote with a collaborator and the book that gave the era its name in history. Octavo three volumes original publishers green cloth gilt titles to the spine illustrated. The only multi-volume work Clemens produced except for the two-volume Tramp Abroad London 1880 the first English edition of The Gilded Age is the rarest of Mark Twain's major works and the most difficult to obtain. Its rarity is due largely to its format three volume sets were quite expensive and were produced almost solely for circulating libraries during the Reconstruction era and so the books were vigorously read by many readers generally rebound and most were pulped in paper drives during the Second World War. In 1873 Samuel Clemens had written only four other major books - The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography and Roughing It. A relatively unknown American author in London at the time the English edition would have necessarily been small no more than a few hundred. From the library of noted collector Frederic R. Kirkland. Kirkland formed a well-known collection of Americana and American and British literature much of which was sold in 1962. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco folding chemise slipcase. Exceptionally rare with one other copy traced in auction records and only the Yale set listed in the Bibliography of American Literature. The first major American novel to satirize the political milieu of Washington D.C. and the wild speculation schemes that exploded across the nation in the years that followed the Civil War The Gilded Age gave this remarkable era its name. Twain and good friend and neighbor Charles Warner borrowed the term from William Shakespeare's King John 1595: "To gild refined gold to paint the lily. is wasteful and ridiculous excess." Another interpretation of the title of course is the contrast between an ideal "Golden Age" and a less worthy "Gilded Age" as gilding is only a thin layer of gold over baser metal so the title now takes on a pejorative meaning as to the novel's time events and people. Although more than a century has passed since its publication the novel's satirical observations of political and social life in Washington D.C. are still pertinent and the work has appeared in more than 100 editions since its original publication. BAL 3359. George Routledge and Sons hardcover

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Twain, Mark [Samuel Clemens] and Charles Dudley WarnerBiblio.com

The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-Day.

1878127448Hartford: American Publishing Company 1878. Early printing of Twain and Dudley's satirical work on greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America which has appeared in more than 100 editions since its original publication. Octavo bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands marbled endpapers all edges marbled fully illustrated from new designs by Hoppins Stephens Williams White et al. In very good condition. Bound for and from the library of Cecil C. Balfour the younger brother of Arthur Balfour. British Conservative statesman Arthur Balfour served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905. As foreign secretary in the Lloyd George ministry he issued the Balfour Declaration in 1917 on behalf of the cabinet. Subsequently from the library of William Safire although not marked. William Safire was an important American author columnist journalist and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixonâ€™s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race and again in 1968. After Nixonâ€™s 1968 victory Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column â€œOn Languageâ€ in The New York Times Magazine from 1979 until the month of his death and authored two books on grammar and linguistics: The New Language of Politics 1968 and what Zimmer called Safireâ€™s â€œmagnum opusâ€ Safireâ€™s Political Dictionary. Safire later served as a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board from 1995 to 2004 and in 2006 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush. In very good condition. The Gilded Age a period of gross materialism and blatant political corruption in US history during the 1870s gave rise to important novels of social and political criticism. The period takes its name from the earliest of these The Gilded Age written by Mark Twain in collaboration with Charles Dudley Warner. The novel gives a vivid and accurate description of Washington DC and is peoples with caricatures of many leading figures of the day including greedy industrialists and corrupt politicians" Britannica. American Publishing Company unknown

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