Samuel Clemens established his own publishing firm in 1885 and put his nephew by marriage Charles Webster in charge. The first books published by the firm were the Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant and Twain's own Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The initial publishing success of the these two books set high expectations which were never matched in subsequent years. In 1888 Charles Webster was forced out of the company and replaced by Fred J. Hall. In April 1894, the firm experienced financial failure. The following list are the works that were published by Samuel Clemens under the Webster and Company banner. These titles have been compiled using the WorldCat database as well as advertisements that were printed in other Webster and Company volumes. Researchers should note that dates of publication and dates of copyright are not always the same. The following dates are supplied for chronological purposes, but may be either copyright or publication or both.
ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY BY YEAR
1885
Grant, Ulysses S., Personal Memoirs
Twain, Mark, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1886
McClellan, George Brinton, McClellan's Own Story: The War for the Union, the Soldiers Who Fought It, the Civilians Who Directed It and His Relations to It and to Them
1887
Cox, Samuel Sullivan, Diversions of a Diplomat in Turkey
Crawford, General Samuel Wylie, The Genesis of the Civil War: The Story of Sumter, 1860--1861
Custer, Elizabeth, Tenting on the Plains; or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas
Hancock, Almira Russell, Reminiscences of Winfield Scott Hancock
Kalakaua, David, The Legends and Myths of Hawaii: The Fables and Folk-lore of a Strange People
O'Reilly, Father Bernard, Life of Pope Leo XIII
1888
Beecher, William, and Samuel Scoville, A Biography of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
Burton, Rev. Nathaniel J., Yale Lectures on Preaching and Other Writings
Daggett, Rollin Mallory, The Legends and Myths of Hawaii
Filippini, Alexander, The Table: How to Buy Food, How to Cook It, and How to Serve It
Mark Twain's Library of Humor
Sheridan, General, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army
Van Nortwick, William H., Yanks and Johnnies; or, Laugh and Grow Fat
1889
Conkling, Alfred R., The Life and Letters of Roscoe Conkling, Orator, Statesman, Advocate
Stedman, Edmund Clarence, A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time
Twain, Mark, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1890
Filippini, Alexander, Supplement to the Table
Ridenbaugh, Mary Young, Biography of Ephraim McDowell, M.D., "The Father of Ovariotomy"
Sanford, E. B., Concise Cyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
Sherman, William T., Memoirs of Gen. W. T. Sherman
Stoddard, William O., Inside the White House in War Times
1891
Bliss, Edgar Janes, The Peril of Oliver Sargent
Byers, S. H. M., The Happy Isles and Other Poems
Crim, Matt, Adventures of a Fair Rebel
Dahlgren, Madeline Vinton, Memoirs of John A. Dahlgren, Rear-Admiral United States Navy
Ireland, Mrs. Alexander, Life of Jane Welsh Carlyle
Lucas, Daniel Bedinger and James Fairfax McLaughlin, Fisher Ames, Henry Clay, etc.,
Schmidt, William, The Flowing Bowl; When and What to Drink
Scott, Henry W., Distinguished American Lawyers, with Their Struggles and Triumphs in the Forum
Sims, George Robert, Tinkletop's Crime
Sixtus, A Review of Professor Briggs's Inaugural Address
Sixtus, Progressive Protestantism
Tolstoy, Leo, Ivan the Fool; or, The Old Devil and the Three Small Devils, also A Lost Opportunity, and Polikshka
Ward, Herbert, My Life with Stanley's Rear Guard
1892
Bacheller, Irving, The Master of Silence: A Romance
Beard, Daniel C., Moonblight and Six Feet of Romance
Benton, Joel, The Truth About "Protection"
Bigelow, Poultney, The German Emperor and His Eastern Neighbors
Bigelow, Poultney, Paddles and Politics Down the Danube
Campbell-Copeland, Thomas, Cleveland and Stevenson: Their Lives and Record--the Democratic Campaign Book for 1892
Campbell-Copeland, Thomas, Harrison and Reid: Their Lives and Records--the Republican Campaign Book for 1892
Cavazza, Elisabeth, Don Finimondone: Calabrian Sketches
Columbus, Christopher, Writings of Christopher Columbus, Descriptive of the Discovery of the New World
Crim, Matt, In Beaver Cove and Elsewhere
Dahlgren, Madeline Vinton, Chim: His Washington Winter
Filippini, Alexander, One Hundred Ways of Cooking Eggs
Filippini, Alexander, One Hundred Ways of Cooking Fish
Ford, Paul Leicester, Writings of Christopher Columbus
Garner, R. L., The Speech of Monkeys, in Two Parts
George, Henry, A Perplexed Philospher: Being an Examination of Mr. Herbert Spencer's Various Utterances on the Land Question
Illustrated Catalgue of Charles L. Webster and Co.'s Publications
Johnston, Richard Malcolm, Georgia Stories
Johnston, Richard Malcolm, Mr. Billy Downs and his Likes
Miller, Annie Jenness, Physical Beauty. How to Obtain and How to Preserve It
Moffett, Samuel Erasmus, The Tariff; What it is and What it Does.
Pullen, Elisabeth Cavazza, Don Finimondone: Calabrian Sketches
Repplier, Agnes, Essays in Miniature
Scollard, Clinton, Under Summer Skies
Sharp, William, Flower o' the Vine: Romantic Ballads and Sospiri de Roma
Springer, William McKendree, Tariff Reform, the Paramount Issue. Speeches and Writings on the Questions Involved in the Presidential Contest of 1892.
Tolstoy, Leo, Life is Worth Living, and Other Stories
Twain, Mark, The American Claimant
Twain, Mark, Merry Tales
Whitman, Walt, Selected Poems
Whitman, Walt, Autobiographia, or, the Story of a Life
1893
Bangs, John Kendrick, Toplleton's Client, or, A Spirit in Exile
Brooks, Henry S., A Catastrophe in Bohemia and Other Stories
Carman, Bliss, Low Tide on Grand Pré: A Book of Lyrics
Crim, Matt, Elizabeth, Christian Scientist
Filippini, Alexander, One Hundred Desserts
Fraipont, Gustave B., The Art of Sketching
George, Henry, The Condition of Labor; an Open Letter to Pope Leo XIII
George, Henry, Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depression and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth: the Remedy
George, Henry, Property In Land
George, Henry, Social Problems
George, Henry, The Land Question: What It Involves and How Alone It Can Be Settled
Isaacs, Abram S(amuel), Stories from the Rabbis
Scollard, Clinton, On Sunny Shores
Twain, Mark, The £1,000,000 Bank-note and Other New Stories
1894
Holdsworth, Annie E., Joanna Traill, Spinster
O'Rell, Max, John Bull & Co.: The Great Colonial Branches of the Firm--Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa
Twain, Mark, Tom Sawyer Abroad
Waugh, Arthur, Alfred Lord Tennyson
