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Clemens, Samuel L.
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). By Mark Twain. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885
In 8s (8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.; 216 x 165 mm). Frontispiece and 173 text illustrations by E. W. Kemble, photogravure plate of a portrait bust by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 1), title-leaf is a cancel with copyright notice on verso dated 1884 (BAL state 2); leaf 1.8 with tiny hole in the lower margin, misprinted page number on page 155 lightly circled in pencil. Publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black, pale peach endpapers; slight rubbing to corners, head and foot of spine, and bottom board edges. Green cloth slipcase, chemise.
In 8s (8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.; 216 x 165 mm). Frontispiece and 173 text illustrations by E. W. Kemble, photogravure plate of a portrait bust by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 1), title-leaf is a cancel with copyright notice on verso dated 1884 (BAL state 2); leaf 1.8 with tiny hole in the lower margin, misprinted page number on page 155 lightly circled in pencil. Publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black, pale peach endpapers; slight rubbing to corners, head and foot of spine, and bottom board edges. Green cloth slipcase, chemise.
Literature
BAL 3415; Grolier/American 87; Johnson, pp. 43–50; Peter Parley to Penrod 75
Catalogue Note
First edition, a very early issue; a fine, bright copy. With BAL points: page [13], state 1 (erroneously listing the illustration Him and another Man on page 88); page 57, state 1 (eleventh line from the bottom reading with the was); page 283, state 3 (leaf is a cancel, the illustration re-engraved with a straight vertical line on Silas Phelps's trousers); page 155, state 1 (with final 5 lacking).