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CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (“Mark Twain”) (1835–1910). The Writings of Mark Twain. New York: Gabriel Wells, 1923–1925. Volume I (of 37) only, 8vo. Engraved title vignette, numerous photogravures and plates including frontispiece after drawings, paintings, etc. by various artists; each with printed tissue guards. Original Publisher’s blue cloth–backed boards, printed spine labels, edges uncut (extremes generally toned, edge of lower board bumped, dampstain near lower gutter). LIMITED EDITION, number 923 of 1024 copies of the “Definitive Edition” SIGNED BY MARK TWAIN (“S. L. Clemens/Mark Twain”) on the front flyleaf 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”. BAL 3691.