Mark Twain in Eruption~1940~Edited by Bernard DeVoto~Stated First Edition~Ultra Rare~7000 Copies~Fine Condition~Free Shipping

Mark Twain in Eruption~1940~Edited by Bernard DeVoto~Stated First Edition~Ultra Rare~Fine Condition~Free Shipping.

This book is in fine condition. Stated first edition. Slight browning to pages due to the age of the book. Spine and binding are tight. Book cover is a rich terra-cotta cloth. Only 7000 copies were printed. Includes part of the dust cover, see photo. Would make a great collectible gift for a Mark Twain fan! Thanks for your support.

The editor, Bernard DeVoto, selected unpublished parts of Twain’s autobiography, which was copyrighted in 1922.

Bernard Augustine DeVoto (1897–1955), American historian, essayist, columnist, teacher, editor, and reviewer, was a lifelong champion of American Public lands and the conservation of public resources as well as an outspoken defender of civil liberties. He was the author of a series of Pulitzer-Prize-winning popular histories of the American West and for many years wrote The Easy Chair, an influential column in Harper’s Magazine. DeVoto also wrote several well-regarded novels and during the 1950s served as a speech-writer for Adlai Stevenson. His friend and biographer, Wallace Stegner described Devoto as “flawed, brilliant, provocative, outrageous, ... often wrong, often spectacularly right, always stimulating, sometimes infuriating, and never, never dull.”

DeVoto was also an authority on Mark Twain and served as a curator and editor for Twain’s papers; this work culminated in several publications, including the best-selling Letters From the Earth, which appeared only in 1962. From 1936 to 1938 he worked in New York City, where he was editor of the Saturday Review of Literature, after which he returned to Massachusetts.

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