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Clemens, Samuel
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Description
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885
In 8s (8 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.; 216 x 172 mm). Frontispiece and 173 text illustrations by E. W. Kemble, photogravure plate of a portrait bust by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 1), the title-page is a cancel with the copyright date 1884 on verso (BAL state 2); a few marginal spots. Publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black, peach-colored endpapers; faint white spot on front cover near "H" in Huckleberry, a few spots on the lower cover, 2 small tears to spine, head of spine frayed with minor losses, offsetting to front endpapers.
In 8s (8 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.; 216 x 172 mm). Frontispiece and 173 text illustrations by E. W. Kemble, photogravure plate of a portrait bust by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 1), the title-page is a cancel with the copyright date 1884 on verso (BAL state 2); a few marginal spots. Publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black, peach-colored endpapers; faint white spot on front cover near "H" in Huckleberry, a few spots on the lower cover, 2 small tears to spine, head of spine frayed with minor losses, offsetting to front endpapers.
Literature
BAL 3415; Grolier American 87; Johnson, pp. 43–50, Peter Parley to Penrod 75
Catalogue Note
First American edition, with BAL points: p. [13], state 1 (illustration is captioned Him and another Man erroneously listed as being at p. 88); p. 57, state 1 (eleventh line from the bottom reading with the was); p. 155, state 3 (with last 5 extending below the line of figures preceding it); p. 283, state 3 (with a straight fly). A very good copy.