Mark Twain Autograph with Photograph.

TWAIN, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens].

$6,500.00

Item Number: 132452

Original photograph of Mark Twain by A. F. Bradley, signed with a note, “Yrs truly Samuel L. Clemens Mark Twain”, framed beneath original photograph. The silver gelatin print is a seated portrait of Twain, stamped “Pach Bros. NY” lower right. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures

“To understand America, read Mark Twain. No matter what new craziness pops up in America, I find it described beforehand by him He was never innocent, at home or abroad” (Garry Wills). Often referred to as “the father of American literature”, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, or Mark Twain as the world now knows him, published a large body of work including several works of both fiction and non-fiction in addition to a vast number of short stories and essays. His best-known works include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.