Clemens, Samuel Langhorne | An as-issued set of the Stormfield Edition of Mark Twain's Writings

The Passion of American Collectors: Property of Barbara and Ira Lipman

Clemens, Samuel Langhorne

The Writings of Mark Twain. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1929

37 volumes, 8vo (219 x 149 mm). Half-titles, title-pages printed in red and black, numerous plates with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's navy cloth gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut and largely unopened, blue paper dust-jackets, printed paper spine labels; a few minor marginal tears to dust-jackets.

The Stormfield Edition, copy 554 of 1,024 sets, of which 1,000 were for sale. In addition to Clemens's writings, this edition includes his autobiography as well as a biography by, and Clemens's letters edited by, Albert Bigelow Paine. A pristine, unopened set.

PROVENANCE

Nick Karanovich (Sotheby's, 19 June 2003, lot 138)