Bancroft Library

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : Tom Sawyer's comrade by Mark Twain ( Book )
11 editions published between 1985 and 2001 in English and held by 1,090 libraries worldwide
"This edition prints the first and only text of Mark Twain's masterpiece ever based on his complete manuscript - including its first 663 pages, half the book, lost for over a hundred years until discovered in 1990 in a Los Angeles attic. Using this newly restored manuscript, the editors have recovered thousands of details of wording, spelling, and punctuation which were misread, "corrected," or simply overlooked by Mark Twain's "typewriter copyist" and his typesetters. The text includes all 174 of the "rattling good" first edition illustrations by E.W. Kemble. It restores the raftsmen's episode, which Mark Twain casually agreed to let his publisher leave out of the first edition, and includes John Harley's lively drawings for it. And at the back of the book is a new gathering of manuscript passages, some photographically reproduced, showing how and with what extraordinary artistry Mark Twain revised his work. They include Jim's comically grotesque "ghost" story, unknown before the recent discovery of the manuscript. In addition, the editors provide more than seventy pages of detailed historical notes, a glossary, and five maps of the Mississippi River valley that locate various episodes in the story. Combining uniquely rich historical materials with a text as Mark Twain wanted it to be read, this should become the standard edition for all readers of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."--Jacket.

The Larkin papers; personal, business, and official correspondence of Thomas Oliver Larkin, merchant and United States consul in California by Thomas Oliver Larkin ( Book )
in English and held by 482 libraries worldwide

The Negro trail blazers of California; a compilation of records from the California archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, in Berkeley; and from the diaries, old papers, and conversations of old pioneers in the State of California by Delilah L Beasley ( Book )
13 editions published between 1919 and 2008 in English and held by 445 libraries worldwide

A guide to the manuscript collections of the Bancroft Library by Bancroft Library ( Book )
4 editions published between 1963 and 1972 in English and held by 409 libraries worldwide

Autobiography of Mark Twain. Volume 1 by Mark Twain ( Book )
8 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 217 libraries worldwide
This volume presents Mark Twain's authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave as he intended. Eschewing chronology and organization, Twain simply meanders from observation to anecdote and between past and present. There are reminiscences from his youth of landscapes, rural idylls, and Tom Sawyeresque japes; acid-etched profiles of friends and enemies, from his "fiendish" Florentine landlady to the fatuous and "grotesque" Rockefellers; a searing polemic on a 1906 American massacre of Filipino insurgents; a hilarious screed against a hapless editor who dared tweak his prose; and countless tales of the author's own bamboozlement, unto bankruptcy, by publishers, business partners, doctors, miscellaneous moochers; he was even outsmarted by a wild turkey. Laced with Twain's unique blend of humor and vitriol, the haphazard narrative is engrossing funny, and revealing of Twain's mind.

The Art of Nahuatl speech : the Bancroft Dialogues ( Book )
4 editions published in 1987 in English and held by 185 libraries worldwide

Roughing it by Mark Twain ( Book )
1 edition published in 1995 in English and held by 178 libraries worldwide

Index to printed maps by Bancroft Library ( Book )
1 edition published in 1964 in English and held by 167 libraries worldwide

Spain in the Mississippi Valley, 1765-1794 by Lawrence Kinnaird ( Book )
3 editions published in 1949 in English and held by 153 libraries worldwide

Some treasures of the Bancroft Library celebrating the dedication of the enlarged and remodeled library, May 6th, 1973 ( Book )
4 editions published in 1973 in English and held by 146 libraries worldwide