Newell, Peter. The Definitive Edition, Number 684 of 1024 sets signed by Twain (as both “Mark Twain” & “S.L. Clemens”) on a tipped in leaf. Portrait frontispiece portrait by W. H. Bicknell in volume I, plates by Peter Newell throughout. 37 vols. 8vo (9 x 6 inches; 230 x 155 mm). Original quarter cloth and boards, paper spine labels. Fine, spine labels with some fading. BAL 3691; Schmidt, A HISTORY OF AND GUIDE TO UNIFORM EDITIONS OF MARK TWAIN'S WORKS, Chapter 29 (online text).

Item #264523

This edition is signed twice by Clemens -- under both his real and pen names. Clemens signed the fly-leaf in 1906 in anticipation of the definitive edition of his works. The statement to that effect is signed by the editor, Albert Bigelow Paine.