[Rarebooks] FS: Mark Twain's Complete Works, Signed by Vonnegut, A. Miller, T. Morrison, Vidal, etc.

[Charles Agvent]

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TWAIN,  Mark  [CLEMENS,  Samuel]. [COMPLETE  WORKS]  THE
       OXFORD  MARK TWAIN in 29 volumes. New York: Oxford University
       Press (1996).  First  Edition.  Facsimiles  of  the  Original
       American   Editions,  Complete  with   Reproductions  of  the
       Original  Illustrations,  Some of Which Were First  Drawn  by
       Twain Himself.  Edited by Shelley Fisher Fishkin, this set is
       one of  only 240 for sale (of 300) with each volume SIGNED by
       the author  of the introduction as well as the author of  the
       afterword.  Readers  will find, for instance,  Toni  Morrison
       reflecting  on Huckleberry Finn, Kurt Vonnegut on Connecticut
       Yankee,  Arthur  Miller on Twain's Autobiography, Roy  Blount
       Jr. on  The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, E.L.
       Doctorow  on  Tom  Sawyer,  Willie  Morris  on  Life  on  the
       Mississippi,  Garry  Wills on Christian Science, and  Cynthia
       Ozick on  The  Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg.  Other  writers
       who have  signed  include  Gore  Vidal, Ursula  K.  Le  Guin,
       George  Plimpton, Ward Just, Russell Banks, Bobbie Ann Mason,
       Malcolm  Bradbury, Nat Hentoff, Sherley Anne Williams, Justin
       Kaplan,  Walter  Mosley,  Erica Jong,  Judith  Martin  ("Miss
       Manners"),  David Bradley, Frederick Pohl, Mordecai  Richler,
       Lee Smith,  Anne  Bernays, Charles Johnson, Fred  Busch,  and
       actor Hal    Holbrook  (who   introduces  Twain's   collected
       speeches).  Noted scholars, such as Louis Budd, Victor Doyno,
       Leslie  Fiedler,  James Miller, Linda Wagner-Martin,  Forrest
       Robinson,  M.  Thomas  Inge, Fred Kaplan, Susan  Harris,  and
       David Smith,  place the work in the context of Twain's career
       and the  literary  and  social  climate of  the  time.  Taken
       together,  these introductions and afterwords provide a major
       reevaluation  of  Twain.  As New in  original  shipping  box.
                                                            $3500.00
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