The Writings of Mark Twain. [Including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Innocents Abroad; Life on the Mississippi; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court; The Prince and the Pauper; A Tramp Abroad].

The Definitive edition of Twain's writings, number 480 of 1024 numbered set with a specially prepared fly-leaf signed by the author in 1906 in anticipation of this edition, “S.L. Clemens Mark Twain" and signed by his biographer Albert Bigelow Paine. Octavo, 25 volumes in the original publisher's half cloth with printed paper spine labels, illustrated 174 plates including lettered tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Clemens to Vol. I. From the library of William Safire, although not marked. William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and supported him again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column “On Language” in The New York Times Magazine from 1979 until the month of his death and authored two books on grammar and linguistics: The New Language of Politics (1968) and what Zimmer called Safire’s “magnum opus,” Safire’s Political Dictionary. Safire later served as a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board from 1995 to 2004 and in 2006 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush. In very good condition. Incomplete.