[Rarebooks] FS: Definitive Edition of MARK TWAIN's Complete Works, Signed by Twain, in dustwrappers

[Charles Agvent]

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] [COMPLETE WORKS] THE WRITINGS OF MARK TWAIN
New York Gabriel Wells 1922-1925 The Definitive Edition consisting of 
thirty-seven octavo volumes bound in blue cloth-backed boards with printed paper 
labels on the spines and plain printed dustwrappers. Illustrated with 
photogravure frontispieces and plates (including portraits) after E. W. Kemble, 
Howard Pyle, Dan Beard, Peter Newell, A. B. Frost, and others. This is copy#744 
of 1024 sets with a tipped-in leaf SIGNED "S.L. Clemens/Mark Twain" in the first 
volume and SIGNED additionally by Mark Twain's biographer Albert Bigelow Paine. 
The books are in beautiful condition, the blue cloth spines and paper labels 
still bright. One volume, the only one lacking a dustwrapper, has some brown 
spotting on the rear board. Several volumes have minor dust soiling to the blue 
cloth. The dustwrappers are, for the most part, free of tears and very lightly 
soiled with slightly darkened backstrips and only minor wear. Several have 
longer tears with the first volume having the front panel neatly separated from 
the backstrip and another volume with both panels neatly separated from the 
backstrip. All in all, a lovely set, quite uncommon in the dustwrappers.  $8500
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