of the mark twain project, which this year 2010 is finally publishing along with the university of california press twain's uncensored autobiography. finally, because twain decreed that this document not be published in its entirety until 100 years after his death, which took place in 1910, when he was 75. most people don't have the nerve to speak exactly what they believe while they're alive because of the repercussions. people will shun them. he says, "i'm only human. i don't want to be shunned. i don't want to be thought ill of, and therefore i'm willing to write this down and put it on paper and leave it behind." working with numerous copies and corrections, the editors at first thought the autobiography was unfinished and random. but after six years, they figured out twain's had produced a complete, provocative document. >> even for us who have had access to it without restriction seeing the way he wants to arrange it, seeing the way he wants to put the parts together is... is brand new to us. and i... i can't help feeling that it will be brand new and interesting to the world. >> reporter: sa

university of california press had to get larger tracks to just transport enough out there. you usually only carry i think 7,000 copies and they found special trucks to carry 10,000 copies instead. cnn did a little profile on the publisher who printed the books for the university of california press. it was such a sweet story about people who have been laid off about a year ago and got hired back on for christmas and went into overtime because this is all you're doing is printing the mark twain book. some cried the kuran we bestseller. >> host: go ahead. >> guest: it was 100 years after his death, so it was -- this is the first volume. i saw the other day on amazon someone was trying to sell the first edition, first printed -- first printing copy for $800. that was interesting. we also had some funny moments in self awareness where booksellers were riding in and they had customers coming up to the counter asking for the mark twain book but they want a signed copy, which was a lot of fun. >> host: that would go for more than $800 by that. >> guest: yeah. >> host: let's look a

university of california press had to get larger tracks to just transport enough out there. you usually only carry i think 7,000 copies and they found special trucks to carry 10,000 copies instead. cnn did a little profile on the publisher who printed the books for the university of california press. it was such a sweet story about people who have been laid off about a year ago and got hired back on for christmas and went into overtime because this is all you're doing is printing the mark twain book. some cried the kuran we bestseller. >> host: go ahead. >> guest: it was 100 years after his death, so it was -- this is the first volume. i saw the other day on amazon someone was trying to sell the first edition, first printed -- first printing copy for $800. that was interesting. we also had some funny moments in self awareness where booksellers were riding in and they had customers coming up to the counter asking for the mark twain book but they want a signed copy, which was a lot of fun. >> host: that would go for more than $800 by that. >> guest: yeah. >> host: let's look a