[CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE]. Liber Scriptorum. The First Book of the Authors Club. New York: The Authors Club 1893. Folio, original brown morocco, stamped in gilt and black, gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others uncut, backstrip detached. FIRST EDITION, limited to 251 copies (this no. 170) signed by each of the 109 contributors; a lavish anthology containing stories, essays, prose sketches, and poems by such contributors as Clemens, W.D. Howell, Harold Frederic, Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie, Charles Dudley Warner, Frank Stockton, F. Hopkinson Smith, E.C. Stedman, Theodore De Vinne, among others. The Clemens short story, "The Californian's Tale," pp. [154]-161, is signed "Mark Twain" by him. BAL 3438 (for the Clemens story); Merle Johnson/Twain, p. 127 (stating that over thirty of the 251 copies were not bound, "but were sold as separate articles"). See lot 49 for the manuscripts of this work.

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[CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE]. Liber Scriptorum. The First Book of the Authors Club. New York: The Authors Club 1893. Folio, original brown morocco, stamped in gilt and black, gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others uncut, backstrip detached. FIRST EDITION, limited to 251 copies (this no. 170) signed by each of the 109 contributors; a lavish anthology containing stories, essays, prose sketches, and poems by such contributors as Clemens, W.D. Howell, Harold Frederic, Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie, Charles Dudley Warner, Frank Stockton, F. Hopkinson Smith, E.C. Stedman, Theodore De Vinne, among others. The Clemens short story, "The Californian's Tale," pp. [154]-161, is signed "Mark Twain" by him. BAL 3438 (for the Clemens story); Merle Johnson/Twain, p. 127 (stating that over thirty of the 251 copies were not bound, "but were sold as separate articles"). See lot 49 for the manuscripts of this work.