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Re: Autobiography of Mark Twain - Volume 2
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Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:
Thu, 8 Nov 2012 10:54:56 -0800
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Thank you.  I suspected it was something like that.  I've never looked
at Paine's edition and saw nothing about sources in the blurbs.  They
struck me as an attempt to cash in on the success of the Mark Twain
Project's Volume 1.  I was afraid I'd missed an announcement of the
Projects Volume 2.

On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 10:15 -0800, Vic Fischer wrote:
> Hi Scott:
> I just looked at the preview text available from Amazon of the 
> CreateSpace edition of Autobiography Volume 2
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/dp/1477475532/
> 
> and it appears to be reprint of volume 2 of Albert Bigelow Paine's 1924 
> edition of Mark Twain's Autobiography (Harper and Brothers). The text 
> matches it exactly.
> 
> Vic Fischer
> 
> 
> On 11/7/2012 6:35 PM, Scott Holmes wrote:
> > I see this being advertised on Amazon but I don't recognize the
> > publishers.
> >
> > Publication Date: May 25, 2012 | ISBN-10: 1477475532 | ISBN-13:
> > 978-1477475539
> >
> > I am anxiously waiting Volume 2 from the Mark Twain Project but this
> > does not appear to be related.  Please advise....
> >

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