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Title: The Innocents Abroad - Signed and with an Original Manuscript Page from The Gilded Age Author: Twain, Mark Place: London Publisher: Chatto & Windus Date: 1899 Description: [2], 377 pp. Portrait frontispiece and other illustrations on Japan vellum. (8vo) period red half morocco and cloth, spine gilt, top edge gilt. Volume 1 (only) of the "Author's Edition de Luxe" if The Writings of Mark Twain. Number 38 of 620. Signed at the limitation as both S.L. Clemens and Mark Twain, as issued. Prior to the half-title are tipped in two original handwritten manuscript pages from Twain's first novel, "The Gilded Age," published in 1873 and co-authored by Charles Dudley Warner. The page written by Twain is 22 lines (with a few crossed out words) and would become the following text from page 125 of the novel: "...Congressmen. 'Now,' said she, 'these gentlemen are to vote and work for the bill, simply out of love for the negro--and out of pure generosity I have put in a relative of each as a member of the University incorporation. They will handle a million or so of money, officially, but will receive no salaries. A larger number of statesmen are to vote and work for the bill--also out of love for the negro--gentlemen of but moderate...'" Following this page is an original manuscript page in Warner's hand. A rare piece of original writing from the early part of Twain's illustrious career, along with his double signature. Lot Amendments Condition: Some rubbing to boards and wear to spine ends and corners; interior clean and unmarked; manuscript leaves are fine save for a small ink smudge to the edge of the Twain page. Item number: 222030