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Price: US$4938.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Complete set of this best edition of the works of Mark Twain in 37 Volumes, published. 1922-25. Books are bound in the publishers half cloth with paper spine labels. Bindings are sound but labels are faded. Signed by Mark Twain in volume one and also by the publishers. A very nice set of this highly collectible item.
Seller: Mathias Schoen, Bremen, Germany
Price: US$9800.00 + shipping
Description: The Definitive edition, one of 1024 numbered sets, with volume one signed by Mark Twain and Albert Bigelow Paine. The publisher states that Twain intended a definitive edition and signed 1024 single leaves in 1906 in anticipation of this edition. Octavo, 37 volumes, bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine over marbled boards, each volume illustrated with frontispiece and plates. In very good condition. "To understand America, read Mark Twain. No matter what new craziness pops up in America, I find it described beforehand by him He was never innocent, at home or abroad" (Garry Wills). "High and fine literature is wine," Twain once wrote, "and mine is only water; but everybody likes water." This beautiful edition of Twain's complete novels, essays and sketches attests to the enduring popularity and power of his worksâ"many of which, despite their author's protestation to the contrary, have come to be regarded as among the finest vintage American literature offers. Among other classics, the set includes A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Life on the Mississippi, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Twain Mark. The Writings. Gabriel Wells, New York, 1922.
Price: US$39850.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: New York, Gabriel Wells, 1922-25 octavo, 37 volumes, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, frontispiece portrait and numerous illustrations throughout the set. Printed on specially made all rag Old Enfold Paper which bears the watermark "Samuel L Clemens - Mark Twain". Pages nice and clean. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery, London, in burgundy morocco, titles and decorations to spine, raised bands, rule to boards, signature to front boards, inner dentelles. Signed by Mark Twain. An exceptional fine and clean set in a spectacular full morocco binding. The Definitive Edition. Limited to 1024 sets, this is number 390. Signed in 1906 SL Clemens/Mark Twain in anticipation of this ultimate edition, as explained by the publishers announcement. The set includes the extra two volumes of Autobiography. It was Mark Twain's most cherished desire that a definitive and complete edition of his entire literary output be published. Whit this end in view, shortly before his death, he autographed with his signature 1024 sheets which would be inserted in the first volume of such an edition of his work, when it might appear. These autographed sheets were so carefully and hermetically preserved that their very existence was lost sight of, until quite recently, when an inventory disclosed them. This fortuitous discovery made possible the fulfilment of Mark Twain's ambition, a project which ever since he passed away, has been increasingly demanded by the public-an absolute complete, comprehensive, and definitive edition of his writings, his full biographical data, ably edited, finely printed and illustrated, and autographed by Mark Twain's own hand- taken from the publishers advert for the set. A very fine set in a spectacular full morocco binding!
Seller: Mundus Novus Galleries, St. George Brant, ON, Canada