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Oxford University Press, USA, 1996. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Octavos, maroon cloth; unread. This edition of Mark Twain reproduces the first editions of each of these titles, with the original illustrations. HOWEVER, added to each is an Introduction by a notable 20th century fictioneer such as Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison ( on HUCK FINN), and Kurt Vonnegut, E. L. Doctorow, Russell Banks, , Ursula K. Le Guin, Willie Morris; also writers such as Arthur Miller and Garry Wills. ADDED too, as Afterwords, are appreciations by noted Twain Scholars: thus, among them all is a major re-evaluation of Twain for the 21st century. AND, each volume has a frontispiece photograph of Twain as he appeared about the time of the work, with an essay on each of his illustrators. This is Twain For Our Times.

New York, NY: Oxford University Press, USA, 1996. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket. Fine in Very Good to Fine Dust Jackets. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 4176 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Additional shipping and insurance required. Please inquire. Set includes The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches, 1867-The Innocents Abroad, 1869-Roughing It, 1872-The Bilded Age, 1873-Sketches, New and Old, 1875-The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876-A Tramp Abroad, 1880-The Prince and the Pauper, 1881-Life on the Mississippi, 1883-Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1885-A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, 1889-Merry Tales, 1892-The American Claimant, 1892-The 1, 000, 000 Bank Note and Other New Stories, 1893-Tom Sawyer Abroad, 1894-The Tragedy of Pddd'nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins, 1894-Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, 1896-The Stolesn White Elephant and Other Detective Stories, 1882, 1896, 1902-How to Tell a Story and Other Essays, 1897-Following the Equator and Anti Imperialist Essays, 1897, 1901, 1905-The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays, 1900-The Diaries of Adam and Eve, 1904, 1906-What is Man? , 1906-The $30, 000 Bequest and Other Stories, 1906-Christian Science, 1907-Chapters from My Autobiography, 1906-1907-1601, and Is Shakespeare Dead, 1882, 1909-Extract From Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven, 1909-Speeches, 1910.