Beschreibung:

CLEMENS, SAMUEL L. (=TWAIN, MARK). The Writings of Mark Twain . Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1899 [-1907]. Comprising sixteen of twenty-five volumes of The Autograph Edition including Volume 1 which contains the limitation leaf signed as both Samuel Clemens and Mark Twain, this copy with an initialed note from Twain bound into volume one and an attestation by R.U. Johnson that the note is in Twain's hand, number 117 of 512 sets, this group also including the volume signed by Charles Dudley Warner. Full green morocco, the covers panelled in gilt, the spines tooled and lettered in gilt, raised bands, with blue morocco doublures, silked endpapers, t.e.g. 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches (21.5 x 15 cm); frontispieces, plates. Spines faded and with some wear to tips, rubbed at places, some spotting internally and soiling to endpapers, spotting to note. The note bound in here is an envelope, addressed and initialed in Twain's hand to the editor of Country Magazine in New York, with directions "from the back room, second turning to the starboard as you go along the hall where the pictures hang. -M.T." C