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CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (“Mark Twain”) (1835–1910). The Writings of Mark Twain. New York: Gabriel Wells, 1923–1925. 37 volumes, 8vo. Engraved title vignette, numerous photogravures and plates including frontispiece after drawings, paintings, etc. by various artists; each with printed tissue guards. Publisher’s blue cloth–backed boards, printed spine labels, edges uncut; original printed dust jackets (faint toning to spine panels, else fine; Vols. I and XIII with facsimile jackets). LIMITED EDITION, number 499 of 1024 copies of the “Definitive Edition” SIGNED BY MARK TWAIN (“S. L. Clemens/Mark Twain”) on the front flyleaf of Volume I with the attestation on the facing page signed by Clemens biographer and executor, Albert Bigelow Paine: “The fly–leaf was signed by Mark Twain in 1906 in anticipation of the present definitive edition of his works”. Includes the last two volumes containing Twain’s Autobiography that were published two years after the fact, often found lacking in other sets. A FINE SET IN THE SCARCE ORIGINAL DUST JACKETS. BAL 3691.