Buy this book on-line Twain, Mark : "1601" : Conversation As It Was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors (cover title)Privately Printed, Mexico City, Mexico, 1943
Staple bound booklet, cardstock cover with black ink lettering. Clean and unchipped. 27 pages. "Limited to 1000 copies". This short, risque satire was first published anonymously in 1880. Twain did not acknowledge it until 1906. It is written as a diary entry of a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth, in which she relates a conversation between the Queen, her ladies, and several visiting authors, including Francis Bacon, William Shakespeare and Walter Raleigh. The main topics of conversation are flatulence and sex. This lampoon was first written as an exercise in the style of Rabelais. Its subject matter made it unpublishable until the 1960's. Prior to that, it was only published and distributed privately.. Book. Book Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Binding: Soft cover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Twain, Mark : "1601" : Conversation As It Was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors (cover title). Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including collectables, antiquarian books, livres illustrées, used books and livres d'occasion. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |