"Extracts from Adam's Diary", by Mark Twain, illustrated by Frederick Strothmann, published by Harper, first edition. Reissued in 1906 [with MCMVI on the title page] in the format of the First Printing of 1904 with a boxed imprint 'Published April, 1904'. This issue accompanied the First Printing of "Eve's Diary" also issued in 1906.

[NOTE by M.T. --I translated a portion of this diary some years ago, and a friend of mine printed a few copies in an incomplete form, but the public never got them. Since then I have deciphered some more of Adam's hieroglyphics, and think he has now become sufficiently important as a public character to justify this publication. --M.T.]

"Extracts From Adam's Diary" is a lighthearted look at the diary entries of Adam, the original man. The diary begins with the arrival of Eve into Eden, which surrounds Niagara Falls. She irritates Adam by giving names to everything in the Garden that she comes across, and he thinks she eats too much fruit.

Eve eats an apple from a forbidden tree, and death comes to the garden. Adam gets fed up with Eve, and moves to another nearby location. Eve follows Adam, and calls their new home Tonawanda.

A year later, Cain appears among them. Adam is confused by this new person, and Eve's devotion to him. Adam decides he must be a kangaroo. By the time Cain is two years old, however, Adam realizes that he isn't a kangaroo. Sometime later, a new baby, Abel, appears. The story then jumps 10 years in the future, and Adam is content with Eve, deciding that it's better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her."

Frederick Strothmann [also Fred], (1879-1958), American illustrator, was born in Philadelphia. He studied at the Carl Hecker Art School in New York City, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Berlin Royal Academy and in Paris. For much of his life he lived in Flushing, NY.

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Hardboards, original illustrated publisher's cloth [spine surface damages: see photo] crease between front board and front endpaper [could be some repair], name on the front endpaper ; 5.1/4" x 8.1/4"; frontispiece; 89 pages [44 'reproductions of stone plates' and 44 pages of Mark Twain's 'translation']; there is an old dump stain at the bottom of the pages 37-72 [see photo]; tight binding, good condition.