Description
The complete twenty-nine volume limited edition of The Oxford Mark Twain, signed by the following notable contributors: Kurt Vonnegut, Frederick Pohl, Walter Mosley, Ursula K. Le Guin, George Plimpton, Arthur Miller, E.L. Doctorow, and Gore Vidal.
Octavo, [twenty-nine volumes]. These books are facsimile reproductions of the publisher’s first printings. All in maroon cloth, title stamped in black on front cover and spine, matching maroon endpapers. Full number line listed on copyright page. Solid text blocks, appear unread. in the publisher’s dust jackets, a near fine set with faint shelf wear. Touch of sunning to spine of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This set is number 57 of 300, all labeled on limitation page at front of volumes.
Signed by notable contributors including E.L. Doctorow, Arthur Miller, Gore Vidal, Bobbie Ann Mason, Fred Kaplan, Frederick Pohl, Ursa K. Le Guin, Roy Blunt Jr., Richard Bucci, Kurt Vonnegut, Louis J. Budd, Albert E. Stone, David Bradley, Gregg Canfield, Ward Just, Willie Morris, Lawrence Howe, Mordecai Richler, David E.E. Sloane, Forest G. Robinson, Cynthia Ozick, George Plimpton, Henry B. Wonham, Erica Jong, Walter Mosley, actor Hal Holbrook, Fredrick Busch, David Borrow, Net Hentoff and more.
Titles in this collection include: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The American Claimant, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, A Tramp Abroad, Chapters from My Autobiography, Christian Science, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The Diaries of Adam and Eve, Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven, Following the Equator, The Gilded Age, How to Tell a Story, The Innocents Abroad, Life on the Mississippi, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, Merry Tales, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, The Prince and the Pauper, Roughing It, Sketches New and Old, Speeches, The Stolen White Elephant, Tom Sawyer Abroad, The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins, What is Man?, 1601, and Is Shakespeare Dead?, The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories, and The £1,000,000 Bank-Note and Other New Stories.
