Letters to Will Bowen: "My First, & Oldest & Dearest Friend"

by Mark Twain

With prefatory note by Clara Clemens Gabriolowitch and Foreword by Albert W. Gunnison, this is a facsimile of the Grabhorn Press edition for the Book Club of California, published in 1938 and limited to 400 copies. Charmingly set and illustrated, the letter from Twain to one of his boyhood friends in Hannibal reminiscences about their adventures there and tells about his delight with his recently married wife.

Unknown Binding

First published November 1, 1975

About the author

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel." Twain also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), and co-wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.