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The Private Life of Adam and Eve: Being Extracts from Their Diaries Translated from the Original Mss.

Mark Twain

First published 1931
Publisher Harper & Brothers
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Cover art Lester Ralph
Pages 89+109
Price $2.00


The two stories have been published with full titles: Extracts from Adam's Diary: Translated from the Original Ms. Eve's Diary: Translated from the Original Ms. --variously fashioned "MS", "Ms", "MS.", "Ms."

    Reissue of the 1904 and 1906 bound together, with original illustrations and pagination
  • Publ date inferred from notices Chi. Tribune 1931-07-25 p11 "a new edition of this work, which up to this time has been published as two separate books"; from listing NY Herald Tribune -07-26 pK13 "Books of the Week", as Reprint; and from the next item
  • Price from brief review Hartford Courant -08-02 pE6 (reviewed during the following week in Chi. Tribune and NY Times)
  • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with original cover (and one apparently identical, mis-catalogued as 1906) -- cover illustration is that on frontispiece of the 1906 chapbook Eve's Diary, illus. by Ralph -- second printed page reproduces a recently discovered note from Twain, in his own handwriting, which requests "let's bind Adam & Eve in one cover", with explanation -- frontispiece is that of the 1904 chapbook Extracts from Adam's Diary, illus. by Strothmann -- copyright dates 1893, 1901, 1904, 1905, 1906; states First Edition -- text spans p[1]-89, p[1]-[109] Throughout the book each even-number page (unnumbered in the second series) shows one illustration; each odd-number page shows corresponding text.

Page Title Author(s) Type
1|1.1 Extracts from Adam's Diary Mark Twain Short Story
1|2.1 Eve's Diary Mark Twain Short Story