[CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE]. GILES, HERBERT A., et al. Great Religions of the World. New York: Harper 1901. 8vo, original blue cloth, t.e.g., ends of spine a bit frayed, endpaper cracked at rear inner hinge. FIRST EDITION, FROM MART TWAIN'S LIBRARY, with his ownership inscription in pencil on front free endpaper: "S.L. Clemens. Ampersand. Saranac Lake, N.Y. Sept. 15, 1901," WITH 24 ANNOTATIONS BY CLEMENS, some 69 words in his hand in pencil on 18 pages (the annotations ranging from one to seven words), and with pencilled marginal markings by him on these and another 38 pages. All but two of the annotations occur in the first 29 pages of the book in the chapter "Confucianism in the Nineteenth Century" and are mostly mildly critical or negative; the marginal markings continue through three other chapters (on Buddhism, Mohammedanism, and Sikhism). The last three chapters in the book (on Judaism, "The Outlook for Christianity," and Catholicism, are mostly unopened). Alan Gribben, Mark Twain's Library: a Reconstruction, 2 vols., (Boston, 1980), p. 274; see The Twainian, January-February, March-April 1979.