CLEMENS, SAMUEL. Works. Hartford: 1899-1907

25 volumes. Autograph edition signed twice ("Samuel Clemens" and "Mark Twain"). Number 301 of 525. Half red morocco, spines lettered gilt, top edges gilt.

I – Innocence Abroad – (two vols) vol. I number 301 signed Samuel Clemens and Mark Twain in pencil; II – Innocence Abroad – vol. II – unsigned; III A Tramp Abroad (two vols) vol. I; IV A Tramp Abroad vol. II; Missing Vo. V; VI Following the Equator vol. II; VII Roughing It (2 vols) vol. I; VIII Rough It vol. II; IX Life on the Mississippi; X The Gilded Age (2 vols) (by Clemens and Charles Dudley Warner) – signed in pencil. Chas Dudley Warner, vol. I; XI The Gilded Age vol. II unsigned; XII The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; XIII The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; XIV Pudd'nhead Wilson; XV The Prince and the Pauper; XVI A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court; XVII Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc Vol. I by Sieur Louis de Cont (2 vols); XVIII Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc vol. II; XIX Sketches: New & Old; XX Tom Sawyer Abroad, Tom Sawyer Detective and Other stories; XXI The American Claimant & Other Sketches; XXIII My Debut as a literary person; Condition Report: Half red morocco; approximately 10 volumes with small chips and losses to leather at top and bottom edges of the front binding; bindings slightly dry with cracking and wear at join with bookends; slightly dry corners; color is still vibrant and matches front binding and bookends; the paper with slight oxidation to edges but appears not to have any foxing; plates appear to be in good condition.
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