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[CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne] TWAIN, Mark.
The Complete Writings.
Introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine.
The Definitive Edition, limited to 1,024 numbered sets, each signed "S L Clemens / Mark Twain". Clemens planned a definitive and complete edition of his works before his death and, to that end, in 1906 signed 1,024 sheets with both forms of his name to be inserted in the first volume of the planned edition. The set was delayed for many years, when the sheets were removed from storage and used to create this posthumous signed edition.
Octavo. 37 volumes. Finely bound in recent tan half calf with red and green labels, in filled gilt design to spine, raised bands, marbled boards, all edges cut. Printed on specially made all rag Old Enfield paper which bears the watermark "Samuel L. Clemens - Mark Twain". Frontisportrait and with about another 160 illustrations throughout the set. Internally very clean. A beautiful set.
