Mark Twain’s Letters From Hawaii, edited by A. Grove Day

“In 1866 the young Mark Twain visited the Sandwich Islands as a roving reporter, and the series of twenty-five letters he contributed between March and June of that year … are among his earliest writings. The ‘Islands of the Blessed’ were to haunt Mark Twain for the rest of his life, for even when he came to write A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur in 1889, it was upon his recollections of the feudal Polynesian society that he drew.” 14 x 22 cm hardcover with almost intact dust jacket, 298 pages, excellent condition except for some tape marks on the first and last pages and a scrawled insciption inside the front cover.