[Rarebooks] FS: Definitive Edition of MARK TWAIN's Works in original dustwrappers, SIGNED

[Charles Agvent]

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]. [COMPLETE WORKS] THE WRITINGS  OF
MARK  TWAIN.  New  York: Gabriel Wells 1922-1925. First  Edition.  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.                                                 $8500.00

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