Holiday Gifts 2020

14 Holiday Gifts December 2020 Handsomely Bound 25-Volume “Author’s Edition De Luxe” Of Twain’s Works, Signed By Him, With Two Manuscript Leaves, One In Twain’s Hand 31. TWAIN, Mark. The Writings of Mark Twain. London, 1899-1907. Twenty-five volumes. Octavo, publisher’s three-quarter brown morocco gilt. $21,000. Click for more info First English issue of the “Author’s Édition de Luxe” of Twain’s works, one of 620 copies signed by him as “SL Clemens (Mark Twain)” on the limitation page. With two autograph leaves—the first in Twain’s hand, the second in the hand of Charles Dudley Warner, with whom Twain co-authored the book—in The Gilded Age (Volume 10). Spines uniformly lightly darkened, extremities with expert restoration, a few inner hinges expertly reinforced. Quite handsome. Liber Scriptorum , Signed By Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie And Numerous Other Authors 30. (TWAIN, Mark, ROOSEVELT, Theodore, et al.). Liber Scriptorum. The First Book of the Authors Club. New York, 1893. Thick folio, publisher’s full dark brown morocco gilt. $13,500. Click for more info First edition, one of only 251 numbered copies signed by each of the 109 contributors, the most prominent being Mark Twain (“The Californian’s Tale,” page 161—the first appearance of this story), Theodore Roosevelt (“A Shot at a Bull Elk,” page 487) and Andrew Carnegie (“Genius Illustrated from Burns,” page 99). Impressive. “This Chant Of Peace, Invention, And Labor” 29. WHITMAN, Walt. After All, Not To Create Only. Recited by Walt Whitman on Invitation of Managers American Institute. Boston, 1871. Slim octavo, original gilt-stamped green cloth, custom hard-sided cloth chemise. $1100. Click for more info First edition in book form of Whitman’s celebration of American labor and progress, preceded only by the extraordinarily scarce first issue on unbound single sheets. Near-fine. L i t e r a t u r e