THE WRITINGS OF MARK TWAIN

by [CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.]. "MARK TWAIN," (Pseudonym)

$18,200 · Offered by Biblio

Hartford, Conn: American Publishing Company, 1899-1900. No. 200 OF 512 COPIES OF THE AUTOGRAPH EDITION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 219 x 156 mm. (8 5/8 x 6 1/8"). 22 volumes (three additional volumes were subsequently published: see below).. FINE RECENT GREEN MOROCCO, HANDSOMELY GILT, BY COURTLAND BENSON, covers with elegant floral border, raised bands, spines very ornately gilt with intricate scrolling fleuron cornerpieces and lovely large floral centerpiece, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed, 12 volumes UNOPENED. With 118 etchings and photogravures, as called for, all with lettered tissue guards. Printed on paper watermarked "Clemens." With 19 additional autographs, including those of Brander Mathews and Charles Dudley Warner (see below), and those of various illustrators of the works. BAL 3456. Four volumes with a faint stain on a page or two each, but AN EXTRAORDINARILY HANDSOME SET IN VERY FINE CONDITION, the leaves remarkably clean, fresh, and bright, and most of the volumes obviously unread. This item offers the collector a rare opportunity to acquire all of the major Twain texts, the author's autograph, and an especially attractive set on the shelf, more than half of the volumes of which have never been opened. The quintessential American writer, Samuel L. Clemens (1835-1910), known better to the world as "Mark Twain," took what Day describes as "the authentic American idiom and 'just folks' American attitude" to produce works of lasting literary significance which are

• Publisher: American Publishing Company
• Year: 1899
• Edition: No. 200 OF 512 COPIES OF THE AUTOGRAPH EDITION SIGNED BY THE AUT
• Binding: unknown

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