ANTIQUE 22 Vol Set Lot MARK TWAIN'S WORKS Author's National Edition / OLD BOOKS

  

Here are 22 red cloth hard cover books from THE WORKS OF MARK TWAIN, published by HARPER & BROTHERS. The full set constitutes 25 volumes; we lack 3.

Each book measures 7 1/2 x 5 1/4, with a few illustrations. Copyrights vary by book, spanning 1897, 1899 (a majority of them) to later dates including 1902, 1903, 1907, 1909 ; all published while Twain was alive. Overall condition is quite good. Covers are sturdy with some surface and edge wear.

Some spine ends fraying a bit and most spines are color fading / toning over generations of shelf sitting. End papers and text pages are very neatly kept, minor / scant wear.

The twenty-five volumes of a full set, in order are: The Innocents Abroad (2 volume set), A Tramp Abroad (2 volume Set), Following the Equator (2 volume set) Roughing it (2 volume set), Life on the Mississippi, The Gilded Age (2 volume set), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Puddin''head Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins, The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Joan of Arc (2 volume set), Sketches New and Old, Tom Sawyer Abroad/Tom Sawyer, Detective and Other Stories, etc. This collection of twenty-two volumes is missing these three. IX Life on the Mississippi.

XIII The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. XXIII The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), [1] known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced, "[2] with William Faulkner calling him the father of American literature.