[Rarebooks] FS: Stormfield Edition of the Works of Mark Twain in 3/4 blue morocco with a letter by Twain bound in

[Charles Agvent]

TWAIN,  Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]. [COMPLETE WORKS] THE  WRITINGS  OF
MARK  TWAIN.  New  York:  Harper  1929.  Copy  #105  of  1024  of  the
Stormfield  Edition in 37 volumes, though this set lacks two  volumes:
26,  which  contains shorter pieces, and 37, which is the second  half
of  Twain's autobiography. Beautifully bound in 3/4 deep blue  morocco
with  gilt  rules,  five  raised bands,  gilt-lettered  and  decorated
spines,  and  top  edge  gilt.  Bound into  the  first  volume  is  an
AUTOGRAPH  LETTER  SIGNED by Samuel Clemens dated 17 July 1909 on  his
Stormfield,  Redding, Connecticut stationery addressed to the Officers
of  the  Produce Exchange Safe Deposit and asking that his  secretary,
Albert  Bigelow  Paine, be allowed to remove the contents of his  safe
deposit  box  to another box on 42nd Street "handy to my RR  station."
SIGNED  "S.  L. Clemens." Overall condition is Near Fine. Nineteen  of
the  thirty-five  volumes have been professionally rebacked  with  the
original  spines  laid on, though several of them are now dull.  Still
the  set  has an attractive uniform shelf appearance and contains  all
of  the  major  works  by Clemens as well as a  number  of  the  minor
pieces. Overall a Near Fine set with a fine letter.           $9500.00


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