(TWAIN, MARK; contributor). Carolino, Pedro. The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English.

INSCRIBED BY ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE (TWAIN, MARK; contributor). Carolino, Pedro. The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English. Preface by Twain. Set of unbound signatures * First American Edition. Together, 2 volumes. Signature sheets are loose as issued, unopened; housed in cloth chemise and slipcase. First Edition is 12mo, cloth, moderately spotted and dampsoiled on cover, still a tight, attractive copy. Boston: Osgood, 1883

First appearance of Twain's humorous "Introduction to the Osgood Edition." The First American Edition is inscribed and signed by albert bigelow paine, from Redding (Ct.) to a Miss Florence Hoadley "To recall days with the Princess Irene." Additionally, a Signed photograph of him is tipped to front pastedown. Paine was Twain's biographer and literary executor and is considered the single most influential person in Twain scholarship. BAL 3412.