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Twain, Mark [Clemens, Samuel L.]
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). By Mark Twain. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885
- paper, ink
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). 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. Half-morocco box.
First American edition, with BAL points: page [13], state 1; page 57, state 1; page 283, state 1; page 155, state 3.
[with]:
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins. By Mark Twain. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1894
8vo (8 3/4 x 5 5/8 in.; 222 x 143 mm). Photographic frontispiece portrait (BAL state A), numerous engraved marginal vignettes. Publisher's rust cloth, stamped in black and lettered in gilt, gray endpapers, red-sprinked edges. Half-morocco box.
First American edition, first issue.
(BAL 3442; Johnson, pp. 59–60)
First American edition, with BAL points: page [13], state 1; page 57, state 1; page 283, state 1; page 155, state 3.
[with]:
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins. By Mark Twain. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1894
8vo (8 3/4 x 5 5/8 in.; 222 x 143 mm). Photographic frontispiece portrait (BAL state A), numerous engraved marginal vignettes. Publisher's rust cloth, stamped in black and lettered in gilt, gray endpapers, red-sprinked edges. Half-morocco box.
First American edition, first issue.
(BAL 3442; Johnson, pp. 59–60)
Literature
BAL 3415; Grolier/American 87; Johnson, pp. 43-50;