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Clemens, Samuel L.
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description
- The Writings of Mark Twain. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1899-1907; New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1910-17;
- paper, ink, leather
30 volumes, 8vo. Frontispiece portraits, titles by Tiffany & Co., many volumes illustrated, red-lettered tissue guards. Uniformly bound in three quarter brown morocco with patterned paper over boards, spines with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in the second and third, the others with a repeat overall decoration in gilt, volumes 1-25 and My Mark Twain all edges gilt, remaining volumes top edges gilt.
Provenance
W. H. Bartlett (bookplate to front pastedown of each volume)
Catalogue Note
JAPAN EDITION, no. 97 of 1,000 sets. The Japan Edition is complete in 25 volumes. Additionally, this collection features five unnumbered volumes of biography and essays, including: What is a Man and Other Essays, Samuel L. Clemens; My Mark Twain, W.D. Howells; and Mark Twain, a Biography [3 volumes], Albert Bigelow Pain.