The writings of Mark Twain.
Contributors: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910, signer.; Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937, signer.; Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: Definitive ed.
Publisher: Gabriel Wells
Published: 1922
Place of publication: [New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 37
Other titles: Works of Mark Twain.
Notes: Includes bibliography and indexes.
Spine title: The works of Mark Twain.
Introductions, biography of Twain, and editing of Twain letters by Albert Bigelow Paine.
"This definitive edition consists of one thousand twenty-four sets, the first volume of each bearing the original autograph signature of Mark Twain"--V. 1, p. [ii]. "This fly-leaf was signed by Mark Twain in 1906 in anticipation of the present definitive edition of his works"--Prefixed leaf. Author signed himself "S.L. Clemens, Mark Twain."
Published in 2 issues. One has matching bindings of beige paper and royal blue cloth, with paper labels pasted on spine.  Another is bound in matching half morroco with vol. 1 having a page of original manuscript material in Twain's own hand tipped in.
LC has set no. 600, with additional autograph signature of Albert Bigelow Paine. Incomplete: v. 36-37 wanting, as is the case with most sets.
Source: Gift of John Horton, Dec. 29, 1988.
BAL 3691
NUC pre-1956, NC 0477091
Table of contents: title: v. 1-2. The innocents abroad, or, The new pilgrim's progress; title: v. 3-4. Roughing it; title: v. 5-6. The gilded age / by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner; title: v. 7. Sketches new and old; title: v. 8. The adventures of Tom Sawyer; title: v. 9-10. A tramp abroad; title: v. 11. The prince and the pauper; title: v. 12. Life on the Mississippi; title: v. 13. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn; title: v. 14. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court; title: v. 15. The American claimant, and other stories and sketches; title: v. 16. Pudd'head Wilson ; and, Those extraordinary twins; title: v. 17-18. Personal recollections of Joan of Arc / by the Sieur Louis de Conte; title: v. 19. Tom Sawyer abroad, Tom Sawyer, detective, and other stories, etc., etc.; title: v. 20-21. Following the equator; title: v. 22. Literary essays; title: v. 23. The man that corrupted Hadleyburg, and other essays and stories; title: v. 24. The $30,000 bequest, and other stories; title: v. 25. Christian Science; title: v. 26. What is man? and other essays; title: v. 27. The mysterious stranger, and other stories; title: v. 28. Mark Twain's speeches; title: v. 29. Europe and elsewhere; title: v. 30-33. Mark Twain : a biography / by Albert Bigelow Paine; title: v. 34-35. Mark Twain's letters / arranged with comment by Albert Bigelow Paine; title: v. 36-37. Mark Twain's autobiography.