The Complete Humorous Sketches and Tales of Mark Twain

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Twain, Mark. Edited and with an Introduction by Charles Neider. Drawings by Mark Twain. Hard cover in very good condition with red boards and tan spine cloth containing red lettering. Author's facsimile signature blind stamped on front board. Text block clean and tight; no writings, no markings noted. Side edges deckled. Former owner's small address label on verso of front board; small sticker (approx 1 1/2"" x 1 1/4"") of US flag & soldier on verso of rear board. Overall light age toning to the papers. No dust jacket * From the Editor's Note, ""The present volume contains all of Mark Twain's humorous sketches which the author saw fit to issue in book form, also a number published in such form by his literary executor, A.B. Paine. Mark Twain changed his mind about the worth of certain of these sketches and did not include them in later editions of his books. For this reason, the reader will here encounter sketches not to be found in the collected works. . . .""The present volume contains 136 sketches, thirty of them gathered from the five books of travel. The contents are arranged chronologically according to the years of first publication, and alphabetically within a given year whenever more than one item was published in that year. I have indicated the source of the sketches taken from the books of travel, and in such cases have given as the date of publication the date of the first edition of the particular book of travel,""