"Eve's Diary, translated from the Original MS.", by Mark Twain, illustrated by Lester Ralph, published by Harper, New York, First edition, first printing, June 1906.

Points of First printing: "MCMVI" [1906] is imprinted on the bottom of the title page. The only copyright statement is "Copyright, 1905, 1906, by Harper & Brothers/ Published June, 1906." The following printings received an additional Harper code.

"Eve's Diary" is written as a first-person memoir, "translated from the original MS". Follows along from the beginning of creation, getting to know her mate, Adam, and finally, to her last days on earth after the fall. Twain first had the story published in Harper's Magazine in 1905. It was published in book form a year later, with 55 illustrations by Lester Ralph.

"Eve's Diary", by Mark Twain, is a beautiful book with pictures of Eve exploring the delights of Eden on every other page, with the text on the adjacent page. The book is written in Eve's voice and gives her description of the events in Eden and her relationship with Adam, as if she wrote a diary. Shelley Fisher Fishkin, a Twain scholar at Stanford University, said the book was "infused with his appreciation for the women he was close to." This is perhaps because Twain wrote it shortly after his wife, Olivia, died.

"At Eve's Grave-Adam: Wheresoever she was, there was Eden."

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Hard boards, original publisher’s cloth [some soiling, spine shows some shelf wear, fade and soiling: see picture]; 5.1/2" x 8.1/4"; 55 full page illustrations, 109 pages on heavy stock paper, a little soiling, very good condition. [l5ba]