Male : Humorist, novelist, travel writer, riverboat pilot, & publisher. 1870 married Olivia Langdon and moved to live in Hartford, Connecticut, where he wrote most of his books. In 1894 he was made bankrupt after bad investments. He went back to lecturing and re-made his fortune

Nationality : American Place of Birth : Florida, Missouri

Date of Birth : 1835 Date of Death : 1910 Age : 75

Pseudonyms : Real Name = Samuel Langhorne Clemens

1867-1870
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches
(1867 C H Webb, NY)
Offered in 1998 for £8435
(1867 Routledge)
The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim's Progress (1869 American Publ Co, Hartford)
(1870 John Camden Hotten) (1882 Chatto & Windus)
The New Pilgrim's Progress : A Book of Travel .. (1870 Hotten, London)

1871-1875
Eye Openers (1871 Hotten)
Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography & First Romance (1871 Sheldon, NY)
Mark Twain's Pleasure Trip of the Continent .. (1871 Hotten, London)
Roughing It (1872 American Publ Co, Hartford) (1872 Routledge - 2 vols)
The Innocents at Home (1872 Routledge)
A Curious Dream & Other Sketches (1872 Routledge)
Mark Twain's Sketches : New and Old (1872 Routledge) (1874 American News Co, NY)
The Choice Humorous Works (1873 Hotten)
The Gilded Age : A Tale of Today (1873 American Publ Co, Hartford) - with C D Warner
Offered in 1998 for £1150
(1874 Routledge) 3 vols - with Charles Dudley Warner

1876-1880
Information Wanted & Other Sketches (1876 Routledge)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876 Chatto & Windus)
(1876 American Publishing Co, Hartford - T W Williams )
Offered in 1996 for £5300 & in 2002 for £13.335
(1876 Tauchnitz No. 1622)
[Filmed in 1938, and in 1996 as "Tom and Huck"]
The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut (1876)
Mark Twain's Mississippi Pilot (1877 Ward & Lock, London)
- 1st Eng edition of "Old Times on the Mississippi"
A True Story, and the Recent Carnival of Crime (1877 Boston)
Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion (1878 Rose-Belford Publ Co, Toronto)
Punch, Brothers, Punch ! & other Sketches (1878 Clote, Woodman & Co NY)
Sketches now First Published in Complete Form (1879 Belfords, Clarke, Toronto)
A Tramp Abroad (1880 American Publ Co) (1880 Chatto & Windus)

1881-1885
The Prince and the Pauper : A Tale for Young People of All Ages (1881 Chatto & Windus)
(1882 Osgood)
[Filmed in 1937 & 1977]
The Stolen White Elephant (1882 Chatto & Windus) (1882 Osgood)
The American Claimant (1882 Charles L Webster, NY) (1882 Chatto & Windus) - Daniel Beard
Life on the Mississippi (1883 Chatto & Windus) (1883 Osgood, Boston)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer's Comrade
(1884 Chatto & Windus) - E W Kemble
Offered in 1997 for £1095 & £1850
(1885 Chas L Webster NY) - E W Kemble
[Filmed in 1931, 1939, 1960 & 1974 as "Huckleberry Finn"]
[Filmed in 1993 as "The Adventures of Huck Finn"]

1886-1895
Mark Twain's Library of Humour (1888 Charles Webster) (1888 Dawson Bros, Montreal)
(1888 Chatto & Windus)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889 Charles L Webster NY)
(1889 C & W - Dan Beard )
[Filmed in 1931 & 1949]
Luck (1891)
Merry Tales (1892 Charles L Webster, NY)
The American Claimant (1892 Chatto & Windus) (1892 Webster) - Dan Beard & Hal Hurst
The £1,000,000 Bank-Note and Other New Stories (1893 Webster, NY) (1893 Chatto & Windus)
The Niagara Book (1893 Underhill & Nicholls, Buffalo) - with W D Howells
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, and the Comedy, Those Extraordinary Twins
(1894 American Publ Co) (1894 C & W - Louis Loeb )
In Defense of Harriet Shelley & Other Essays (1894)
Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894 Chatto & Windus) (1894 Webster, NY) - Dan Beard

1896-1900
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by the Sieur Louis de Conte
(1896 Harper) (1896 Chatto & Windus)
Tom Sawyer : Detective - as told by Huck Finn & Other Tales (1896) (1897 Chatto & Windus)
How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (1897 Harper)
Following the Equator : A Journey around the World (1897 Amer Publ Co)
More Tramps Abroad (1897 Chatto & Windus) - same as above title
Following the Equator : A Journey Round the World (1897 American Publ Co, Hartford)
- By S L Clemens
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (1899) (1900 Chatto & Windus)
English as She is Taught (1900 Mutual Book Co, Boston)

1901-1905
To the Person Sitting in Darkness (1901 Anti-Imperialist League, NY)
The Five Boons of Life (1902)
Was it Heaven ? Or Hell ? (1902)
A Double-Barrelled Detective Story (1902 Harper NY) (1902 Chatto &Windus)
A Dog's Tale (1904 Harper NY & UK)
Extract from Adam's Diary (1904 Harper, London & NY)
Editorial Wild Oats (1905 Harper)

1906-1910
Eve's Diary (1906 Harper US & UK) - Lester Ralph
Mark Twain on Simplified Spelling (1906 Simplified Spelling Board, NY)
The Thirty Thousand Dollar Bequest & Other Stories (1906 Harper US & UK)
Christian Science (1907 Harper NY)
A Horse's Tale (1907 Harper US & UK) - Lucius Hitchcock
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (1909 Harper, London & NY)
Offered in 1998 for £940
Is Shakespeare Dead ? (1909 Harper NY)
Mark Twain's Speeches (1910 Harper NY)
What is Man ? (1910 Watts & Co, London)

1911 to 1930
Death Disk (c1913 Edgar S Werner, NY)
The Mysterious Stranger (1916 Harper) - N C Wyeth
Mark Twain's Letters (1917)
The Curious Republic of Gondor & Other Whimsical Sketches
(1919 Boni & Liveright, NY) - by S L Clemens
Saint Joan of Arc (1919 Harper) - Howard Pyle
Europe and Elsewhere (1923 Harper)
Mark Twain's Autobiography (1924 Harper NY) - 2 vols
Mark Twain vs The Street Railway Co (1926 PP, NY)
Sketches of the Sixties (1926 Howell, SF) - with B Harte
The Quaker City Holy Land Excursion : An Unfinished Play (1927 PP in NY) - 200
The Adventures of Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass (1928 Covici, Chicago) - 375

1931-1950
There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town To-Night
(1933 Jacob Blanck. for Friends & Patrons, NY) - 299
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1933 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - E W Kemble
Mark Twain's Notebook (1935 Harper)
Slovenly Peter (1935 Harper) - Fritz Kredel
The Prince and the Pauper (1937 John C Winston, Chicago) - Robert Lawson
Letters from the Sandwich Islands (1938 Stanford)
Letters from Honolulu (1939 Honolulu)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1939 Ltd Eds Club, Cambridge) - Thomas Hart Benton
Mark Twain's Letters to Will Bowen (1941 Texas UP, Austin)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1942 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Thomas Hart Benton
Life on the Mississippi (1944 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1200 signed by Thomas Hart Benton
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1947 Elek Camden Classics) - Keith Vaughan
Huckleberry Finn (1948 Paul Elek "Camden Classics") - Edward Burra
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1948 Ltd Eds Club, NY)
- 1500 signed by Honore Guilbeau
The Love Letters of Mark Twain (1949 NY) - 155

After 1951
Report from Paradise (1952 Harper)
Roughing it in California (1953 The L-D Allen Press, California) - 2000. Mallette Dean
An Open Letter to Commodore Vanderbilt (1956 Boston) - 123
Concerning Cats (1959 Book Club of California, SF) - 450
The Autobiography (1960 C & W) - contains 40,000 unpublished words
Ah Sin : A Dramatic Work (1961 Book Club of California, SF) - 450
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1961 Heinemann) - Edward Ardizzone
The Innocents Abroad (1962 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Fritz Kredel
The Prince and the Pauper (1964 Ltd Eds Club, NY) (1964 Ltd Eds Club, Westerham)
- 1500 signed by Clarke Hutton
A Tramp Abroad (1966 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by David Knight
Twain's Letters from Hawaii (1967 C & W)
The War Prayer (1968 Harper) - John Groth
The Notorious Jumping Frog & Other Stories (1970 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Joseph Low
Roughing It (1972 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Noel Sickles
Pudd'nhead Wilson (1974 Ltd Eds Club, Avon) - 2000 signed by John Groth
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1975 Franklin Library) - Ben F Stahl
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1982 Georgetown Univ Library, Washington)
- 2 vols. 1000. Boxed
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1985 California UP) - Barry Moser
The Stolen White Elephant (1987 PIC, Sydney) - Robert Ingpen
A Strange Expedition (1988 London) - Roger Ingpen

READING
1892-1920
Will Clemens : Mark Twain - His Life & Work (1892 Clemens Publishing Co, SF)
Merle Johnson : A Bibliography of the Works of Mark Twain (1910 Harper NY) - 500 signed
Archibald Henderson : Mark Twain (1911 Frederick Stokes, NY)
Van Wyck Brooks : The Ordeal of Mark Twain (1920 NY)

1921-1950
Clara Clemens : My Father Mark Twain (1931 Harper NY)
M M Brashear : Mark Twain - Son of Missouri (1934 N Carolina UP)
Edward Wagenknecht : Mark Twain - The Man and His Work (1935 Yale UP)
Merle Johnson : A Bibliography of the Works of Mark Twain
(1935 Greenwood Press UK & US) (1972 Rev Ed)
Bernard DeVoto : Mark twain at Work (1942 Cambs, Mass)
Delancey Ferguson : Mark Twain - Man and Legend (1943 Bobbs-Merrill)
Samuel C Webster : Mark Twain - Business Man (1946 Little Brown, Boston)

1951-1980
M M Brashear : The Art, Humor & Humanity of Mark Twain (1959 Oklahoma UP)
Arlin Turner : Mark Twain and George W Cable - The Record of a Literary Friendship (1960)
James Blair : Mark Twain & Huck Finn (1960 Univ California Press)
Albert E Stone : The Innocent Eye - Childhood in Mark Twain's Imagination (1961 New Haven)
Mark Hamlin : Mark Twain and Elisha Bliss (1964 Missouri UP)
William Dean Howells : My Mark Twain - Reminiscences and Criticism (1967 Louisiana UP)
J Kaplin : Mark Twain and His World (1974)
Dennis Welland : Mark Twain in England (1978 Chatto & Windus £8)

After 1981
Robert M Rodney : Mark Twain International - A Bibliography & Interpretation of His
Worldwide Popularity (1982 Greenwood Press)
Louis J Budd : Our Mark Twain - The Making of His Public Personality (1983 Phila)
Everett Emerson : The Authentic Mark twain - A Literary Biography (1984 Phila)
John Lauber : The Making of Mark twain - A Biography (1985 NY)
John C Gerber : Mark Twain (1988 Boston)
Jeffrey Steinbrink : Getting to be Mark twain (1991 Berekley & Oxford)
R Kent Rasmussen : Mark Twain A-Z - The Essential reference to His Life & Writings
(1995 Oxford)
Andrew Hoffman : Inventing Mark Twain - The Lives of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
(1997 NY) (1997 Weidenfeld & Nicolson £25)