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Twain, Mark. The Writings of Mark Twain. The American Publishing Company, Hartford, 1899.
Price: US$5500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The Autograph Edition, limited to 512 copies, signed by Twain. Complete in 25 volumes. Publisher's ¾ brown morocco over marbled boards. Spines with simple floral devices in compartments. Spines uniformly mellowed to brown. Light surface chipping to the extremities and joints. A sound set.
Seller: The Literary Lion,Ltd., Thousand Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$15000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 25 Volumes. 8vo. LIMITED SIGNED EDITION, one of 600 copies (of total 620). SIGNED by author as both Mark Twain and S. L. Clemens at tipped-in colophon leaf of volume one. Printed at Hartford Press, Hartford Connecticut. Rebound in brick colored half morocco, dark blue title labels at spines; 5 raised bands, marbled paper-over-boards. T.e.g. Negligible rubbing to bottom edges of covers. Minute scrape to spine at bottom band of volume one. Mild narrow abrasion of a few inches at lower margin of general title page in each volume. Occasional light foxing to leaves. VG. THE SET:
Seller: Strand Book Store, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$16500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 25 volumes. Illustrated. Full red crushed morocco, gilt lettering & dentelles, raised bands; marbled end-papers. Hartford: American Publishing Co., 1899. Limited Edition. Fine. Number 375 of 512 sets. Volume I is signed by Twain; Volume X, the first volume of "The Gilded Age" has a separate limitation page signed by Charles Dudley Warner.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$21500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Twenty-five volumes; 5 ¾ in. x 8 ½ in. Volume One: The verso of the f.f.e.p. has the bookplate of William G. Mather (1857-1951), a Cleveland, Ohio-based industrialist and book collector. Bound in at this point is a tab reading "Original Autograph Manuscript Pages from The Gilded Age." There are two manuscript pages: the first in Twain's hand with some corrections and cross-outs; the second in the hand of Charles Dudley Warner, who was Twain's collaborator for "The Gilded Age." The verso of the half-title page in Volume One is the limitation page and states: "The Autograph Edition of Mark Twain's Works is limited to Five Hundred and Twelve Copies, of which this is No. 4 [signed]: S.L. Clemens (Mark Twain)." This is followed by (1) an engraved portrait of Twain; (2) title-page of the set; (3) the title-page for the work in Volume I ("Innocents Abroad") and (4) an essay entitled "Biographical Criticism" ( at pp. v-xxxiii), which is signed at the end by the author, Brander Matthews. All volumes are illustrated (some are photo-gravures); and some illustrations are signed. Presswork by The University Press, Cambridge. (1899-1907). Volume 10 of the set is the first volume of "The Gilded Age;" it has a limitation page reading the same as that in Volume I and is signed by Charles Dudley Warner (only). Bound in full, dark red-brown morocco leather by Pfister, with its stamp on the end-papers. With five raised bands on the spine gilt titling, and a gilt floral design on the spine and front covers, with doublures of green and dark red-brown morocco with a gilt design of floral sprays, gilt borders, gray silk end-papers; top-edges gilt. Some of the spine ends, outer hinges, or cover corners show light wear or rubbing to the leather; a few volumes show more wear. Very good +.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.