[1601] Being a fireside conversation in the tyme of the Goode Queene Bess in which divers persons of reknown hold converse on concerns personal and intimate. By Mark Twain

by [Clemens, Samuel L.]

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[New York]: Done into a privately emprynted booke, 1926. One hundred copies of this conversation have been printed for H.D.W./ of which this copy is no. 65" with Connett device A at foot of limitation leaf. Text within printed borders on paper watermarked Vidalon. Collation: blank leaf, half-title, title page (verso "... of which this is copy No. 34" [numbered in ink], Connett device A at foot), foreword (3 leaves, last verso blank), fly-title, text (6 leaves, last verso blank), blank leaf. 1 vols. 8vo. Original cream boards, title printed on upper cover. Fine copy in original glassine wrapper (some chips). Brown half morocco folding box, with leather label on upper cover with Derrydale logo in gilt. One hundred copies of this conversation have been printed for H.D.W./ of which this copy is no. 65" with Connett device A at foot of limitation leaf. Text within printed borders on paper watermarked Vidalon. Collation: blank leaf, half-title, title page (verso "... of which this is copy No. 34" [numbered in ink], Connett device A at foot), foreword (3 leaves, last verso blank), fly-title, text (6 leaves, last verso blank), blank leaf. 1 vols. 8vo. The famed Fireside Conversation, written while Clemens found himself at an impasse during the composition of Huckleberry Finn. The work circulated privately - and gleefully acknowledged to his friends - but was never published during his lifetime. In the 1920s, the text gained new readers after the Grabhorn Press edition of 1925, with a

• Publisher: Done into a privately emprynted booke
• Year: 1926
• Edition: One hundred copies of this conversation have been printed for H.
• Binding: unknown

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