John Cooley provides an account of Clemens's retirement pastime by bringing together virtually every known communication - letters, notes, telegrams, cards - exchanged between the writer and the girls he called his angelfish. Cooley also includes a number of Clemens's notebook entries, autobiographical dictations, and short manuscripts, as well as relevant letters written by Clemens's secretary, Isobel Lyon, and his authorized biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine, that further illuminate this fascinating story.
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John Cooley provides an account of Clemens's retirement pastime by bringing together virtually every known communication - letters, notes, telegrams, cards - exchanged between the writer and the girls he called his angelfish. Cooley also includes a number of Clemens's notebook entries, autobiographical dictations, and short manuscripts, as well as relevant letters written by Clemens's secretary, Isobel Lyon, and his authorized biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine, that further illuminate this fascinating story.
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Near Fine in Fine jacket. Book First edition, first printing, hardcover. Creme cloth with black lettering on the spine. xxvi, 297 pages. Edited by John Cooley. Near Fine with head of spine pushed and light foxing to top edge of text block, in a fine, mylar-covered dust jacket.