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Oxford UK: Oxford University Press. "The Oxford Mark Twain" Series Edited by Shelley Fisher Fishkin. Toni Morrison Introduction. NEW Fresh tight strong bright tight new jacket boards text. No remainder or other markings. . As New. Hardcover. First American Edition. 1996.

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.