Mark Twain and his world

by Justin Kaplan

Shelfworn jacket, with abrasion on upper corners and head of spine. Jacket spine is faded. Superficial marks and scores on front and rear of jacket. Jacket is price clipped. Sticker on front pastedown. Minor edgewear elsewhere on jacket. Hardcover is bumped on corners, and head and foot of spine. FEP slightly faded at top. Contents are sound and clean, and text and illustrations are clear. TH.

Genres: Biography

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1974

About the author

Justin Daniel "Joe" Kaplan was an American writer and editor. The general editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, he was best known as a biographer, particularly of Samuel Clemens, Lincoln Steffens, and Walt Whitman.

Reviews

[Sharon · Rating 3 out of 5]

published in 1974

[Tom · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very nice layman's biography of Twain, richly illustrated and carefully researched. Kaplan is one of the foremost Twain biographers. This little book includes many of his best insights to Twain's life and work.