Lifetime with Mark Twain

[Mark Twain (subject)]. Mary Lawton. A Lifetime with Mark Twain. The memories of Katy Leary, for thirty years his faithful and devoted servant. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1925]. First edition. Octavo (8.5 x 5.75 inches; 215 x 145 mm.). xviii, 352, [2, blank] pages. Frontispiece and additional illustrated plates inserted throughout, full-page cartoon portrait on page [351]. Publisher's bright red ribbed cloth; top edge of the text block trimmed, others untrimmed; plain endpapers. In the original dust jacket. Spine ends softly pushed; small bruise near the upper edge of the front board; corners very slightly bent; extremities with just a hint of wear. Endpapers lightly foxed with some offsetting from the dust jacket; scant marginal foxing. Dust jacket edges worn with a few nicks and small chips; spine panel very lightly darkened; folds a little worn; some trivial soiling. A near fine copy in a very good jacket. BAL Clemens Selected References, p. 252. (#10236).