MARK TWAIN ORIGINAL FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS 1907 & MARK TWAIN JOURNALS SIGNED CYRIL CLEMENS ORIGINALS Start Price USD 2,499.00 Current Price USD 2,499.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, November 18, 2008 End Time Thursday, December 18, 2008 Location mississauga, ON See more about 'MARK TWAIN ORIGINAL FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS 1907 ' Description MARK TWAIN ORIGINAL BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPH, USED FOR HISTORY BOOKS WORLDWIDE, AND PRESS. OLD GLUE CAME AWAY FROM BACKING,ON OLD CARDBOARD,SHOWS DIFFERENT CROPPING. STATES MARK TWAIN 1907.ALL IN AGED CONDITION,MARK TWAIN PHOTOGRAPH IS IN GOOD CONDITION FOR AGE. ALSO COMES WITH 3 ORIGINAL MARK TWAINJOURNALS ALL SIGNED BY CYRIL CLEMENS, ALL TO TOM NOEL ,GREAT AMERICAN EDITOR'S. ALL GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC. I HAVE MANYOF THESE ORIGINAL MARK TWAIN JOURNALS ALL SIGNED CYRIL CLEMENS AND MORE ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF MARK TWAIN.OWN A TRUE PIECE OF HISTORY. "COMES WITH GIFT BOOK" I WILL FRAME FOR BUYER TO DISPLAY; A RARE PIECE FOR GREATCONVERSATION! LAWYERS, JUDGES, HISTORICAL COLLECTORS! .THERE ARE NO RETURNS FROM THE BUYER FOR THIS ORIGINAL SO NO COPYS CAN BE MADE AND THEN RETURNED,THIS IS THE ORIGINAL!Mark Twain On Nov. 30, 1835, the small town of Florida, Mo. witnessed the birth of its most famous son. Samuel Langhorne Clemens was welcomed into the world as the sixth child of John Marshall and Jane Lampton Clemens. Little did John and Jane know, their son Samuel would one day be known as Mark Twain - America's most famous literary icon. Approximately four years after his birth, in 1839, the Clemens family moved 35 miles east to the town of Hannibal. A growing port city that lie along the banks of the Mississippi, Hannibal was a frequent stop for steam boats arriving by both day and night from St. Louis and New Orleans. Samuel's father was a judge, and he built a two-story frame house at 206 Hill Street in 1844. As a youngster, Samuel was kept indoors because of poor health. However, by age nine, he seemed to recover from his ailments and joined the rest of the town's children outside. He then attended a private school in Hannibal. When Samuel was 12, his father died of pneumonia, and at 13, Samuel left school to become a printer's apprentice. After two short years, he joined his brother Orion's newspaper as a printer and editorial assistant. It was here that young Samuel found he enjoyed writing. At 17, he left Hannibal behind for a printer's job in St. Louis. While in St. Louis, Clemens became a river pilot's apprentice. He became a licensed river pilot in 1858. Clemens' pseudonym, Mark Twain, comes from his days as a river pilot. It is a river term which means two fathoms or 12-feet when the depth of water for a boat is being sounded. "Mark twain" means that is safe to navigate. Because the river trade was brought to a stand still by the Civil War in 1861, Clemens began working as a newspaper reporter for several newspapers all over the United States. In 1870, Clemens married Olivia Langdon, and they had four children, one of whom died in infancy and two who died in their twenties. Their surviving child, Clara, lived to be 88, and had one daughter. Clara's daughter died without having any children, so there are no direct descendants of Samuel Clemens living. Twain began to gain fame when his story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County" appeared in the New York Saturday Press on November 18, 1865. Twain's first book, "The Innocents Abroad," was published in 1869, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" in 1876, and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in 1885. He wrote 28 books and numerous short stories, letters and sketches. Mark Twain passed away on April 21, 1910, but has a following still today. His childhood home is open to the public as a museum in Hannibal, and Calavaras County in California holds the Calavaras County Fair and Jumping Frog Jubilee every third weekend in May. Walking tours are given in New York City of places Twain visited near his birthday every year. CYRIL CLEMENSCyril Coniston Clemens was born in in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 14, 1902. After attending Canterbury School in New Milford, Connecticut, he continued his education at St. Louis University High School, attended Georgetown University, and received his B.A.. and M.A. degrees from Washington University (St. Louis). He married Nan B. Shallcross on October 8, 1933. He was a distant cousin of Samuel Langhorn Clemens and spent his life researching, writing about, and otherwise promoting his famous cousin. A family inheritance enabled him to devote time to these pursuits, including offering a life membership in the International Mark Twain Society, which he founded in 1930, to hundreds of important individuals. He also founded and edited the Mark Twain Quarterly, 1936-1982. His writing include biographies of Twain and Truman and short sketches of famous authors and politicians, including George Bernard Shaw, A.E. Housman, Mussolini, Sir Robert Walpole, and John Galsworthy. He died May 16, 1999.                                                                                        POLICYALL ITEMS MUST BE SHIPPED WITH A TRACKING NUMBER THROUGH CANADAPOST,ALL ITEMS MUST BE INSURED. NO EXCEPTIONS. PAYMENT MUST BE MADE THROUGH PALPAL. PAYMENTS MUST BE RECEIVED WITHIN 3 DAYS.ALL BOOKS,DOCUMENTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS ARE DESCIBED TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE,PLEASE ASK ALL QUESTIONS BEFORE BIDDING. 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