TWAIN, MARK. Writings. 23 volumes. Frontispieces. Illustrations and photogravures throughout; lettered tissue-guards. 8vo, contemporary 1/4 brown morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, joints occasionally cracked with mends on several copies, few volumes darkened with spines dried, most conspicuously to vol. VI, occasional nick or split to spine tips, top edges gilt, others uncut. Hartford: American Publishing Co., 1899-1903
number 122 of 512 copies, first volume signed "S. L. Clemens / (Mark Twain)" on the limitation page. Later extended to 25 volumes when in 1907 Volumes 24 and 25 were issued separately by Harper & Brothers "as an accommodation to purchasers of earlier volumes with a view to making their sets uniform."
