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New York, Doubleday, Doran & Co, The Works, The Crowborough Edition, octavo, 24 volumes, Fine and clean, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, with photogravure frontispiece portrait of Arthur Conan Doyle in volume 1, Contemporary full blue crushed morocco, spines with extra tooling gilt, raised bands, triple line rule with corner tools to front and also to back board, inner dentelles gilt. Limited edition of 760 numbered sets of which this copy is number 21. Signed on the limitation page by Arthur Conan Doyle in volume 1. The best and only complete edition of his collected works. A very fine set in an extremely rare contemporary (probably publishers deluxe) binding. Fine and clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. New York, Gabriel Wells, 1922-25 octavo, 37 volumes, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, frontispiece portrait and numerous illustrations throughout the set. Printed on specially made all rag Old Enfold Paper which bears the watermark "Samuel L Clemens - Mark Twain". Pages nice and clean. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery, London, in burgundy morocco, titles and decorations to spine, raised bands, rule to boards, signature to front boards, inner dentelles. Signed by Mark Twain. An exceptional fine and clean set in a spectacular full morocco binding. The Definitive Edition. Limited to 1024 sets, this is number 390. Signed in 1906 SL Clemens/Mark Twain in anticipation of this ultimate edition, as explained by the publishers announcement. The set includes the extra two volumes of Autobiography. It was Mark Twain's most cherished desire that a definitive and complete edition of his entire literary output be published. Whit this end in view,… Read More