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Clemens, Samuel L.
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). By Mark Twain. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885
8vo (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); some spotting in preliminaries and occasionally elsewhere, some dust soiling page 351, tiny quarter-inch inkstain on fore-edge affecting pp. 227-255. Publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black, in a green cloth slipcase; head of spine mended, corners and foot of spine torn, endpapers old but probably not original.
8vo (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); some spotting in preliminaries and occasionally elsewhere, some dust soiling page 351, tiny quarter-inch inkstain on fore-edge affecting pp. 227-255. Publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black, in a green cloth slipcase; head of spine mended, corners and foot of spine torn, endpapers old but probably not original.
Literature
BAL 3415; Grolier / American 87; Johnson, pp. 43-50; Peter Parley to Penrod 75
Condition
some spotting in preliminaries and occasionally elsewhere, some dust soiling page 351, tiny quarter-inch inkstain on fore-edge affecting pp. 227-255. Publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black; head of spine mended, corners and foot of spine torn, endpapers old but probably not original.
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In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
First American edition. 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 3 (with Phelps's final 5 larger than 15).