“1601” or Conversation as it was at the Fireside in the Times of the Tudors and Sketches Old and New.
Samuel Clemens' "1601" or Conversation as it was at the Fireside in the Times of the Tudors and Sketches Old and New
“1601” or Conversation as it was at the Fireside in the Times of the Tudors and Sketches Old and New.
TWAIN, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens].
Item Number: 128149
New York: The Golden Hind Press Inc., 1933.
First Golden Hind Press edition of Twain’s short risqué squib. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Clemens. From the library of William Safire with his bookplate to the pastedown. William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and supported him again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column “On Language” in The New York Times Magazine from 1979 until the month of his death and authored two books on grammar and linguistics: The New Language of Politics (1968) and what Zimmer called Safire’s “magnum opus,” Safire’s Political Dictionary. Safire later served as a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board from 1995 to 2004 and in 2006 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush. In very good condition.
"1601" or Conversation as it was at the Fireside in the Times of the Tudors was first published anonymously in 1880, and finally acknowledged by Clemens in 1906. Written as an extract from the diary of one of Queen Elizabeth I's ladies-in-waiting, the pamphlet purports to record a conversation between Elizabeth and several famous writers of the day. The topics discussed are entirely scatological, notably flatulence, flatulence humor, and sex.
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