[BINDINGS] -- [CLEMENS ("Mark Twain")]. JOHNSON, Rossiter, editor-in-chief. Authors Digest. N.p.: Authors Press, [1908]. “AUTOGRAPH EDITION,” LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF ONLY THIRTY-TWO NUMBERED SETS, SIGNED BY CLEMENS.
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May 4, 2022
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[BINDINGS] -- [CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain") (1835-1910).]. JOHNSON, Rossiter, editor-in-chief. Authors Digest the World’s Great Stories in Brief. N.p.: Authors Press, [1908].
20 volumes, 8vo. Original watercolor and ink drawings illuminated in gold in the margins of several leaves, and one pictorial border and initial with hand-coloring in vol.I, numerous color-printed plates. Original half navy crushed levant gilt, spines in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands gilt, gilt-lettered in 3, the rest with gilt floral design with red and green morocco onlays, top edges gilt, others uncut (very slight rubbing to extremities, a few joints starting).
“AUTOGRAPH EDITION,” LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF ONLY THIRTY-TWO NUMBERED SETS, this set prepared for Duncan Mackintosh. SIGNED BY CLEMENS in vol. I.
Property Donated to the Friends of the Whitefish Bay Public Library, Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin
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