Writings [Memorial Edition]

by TWAIN, Mark

$18,500 · Offered by Biblio

Signed

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. Full Description: TWAIN, Mark. The Writings [Memorial Edition]. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. Memorial Edition, one of 90 numbered copies, this copy being number 15). Signed by the publisher on the limitation page. Thirty-seven octavo volumes (8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches; 220 x 145 mm). Title-pages in blue and black. With frontispieces and numerous plates in each volume. Also includes a printed broadside for a November 13, 1884 public reading by Twain, at the Boston Music Hall, laid in to first volume. Tipped in to volume I is an original manuscript leaf in (likely ca. 1887-88), completely in Twain's hand, on the back of stationary for the Victoria Hotel in New York. The manuscript comprises 25 lines of text, being an exercise from a work by "memory doctor" Professor Alphonse Loisette (aka Marcus Dwight Larrowe). Publisher's three quarter green morocco over green cloth boards. Spines decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt, others uncut. Marbled endpapers. Spines uniformly sunned to brown. First volume with minor rubbing to outer joints and a few volumes with minor rubbing to outer board edges. Small ownership signature on front blank of each volume. Fore-edge of pp. 19/20 in eighth volume torn, just touching a few letters, but repaired. Overall a very good set. A magnificent set of this fine and rare edition of Twain, complete with the Biography (volumes 30-33) and Letters (volumes 34 & 35) edited by Paine, and the Autobiogr

• Publisher: Harper & Brothers
• Year: 1929
• Binding: unknown

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