[Rarebooks] FS: Complete Works of MARK TWAIN in 37 volumes, 1922-25, SIGNED by Twain in the original dustwrappers

[Charles Agvent]

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]. [COMPLETE WORKS] THE WRITINGS OF MARK 
TWAIN. Definitive Edition. New York: Gabriel Wells, 1922-1925. First 
Edition. The Definitive Edition consisting of 37 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. Volume 9, 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. (#010037)        $8,500.00

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