Clemens, Samuel Langhorne | A fine first edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the book from which, according to Ernest Hemingway, "All modern American literature comes. …"
Estimate:
15,000
The Passion of American Collectors: Property of Barbara and Ira Lipman
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne | A fine first edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the book from which, according to Ernest Hemingway, "All modern American literature comes. …"
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne | A fine first edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the book from which, according to Ernest Hemingway, "All modern American literature comes. …"
Estimate:
15,000
Lot sold:
18,900
USD
The Passion of American Collectors: Property of Barbara and Ira Lipman
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) … By Mark Twain. New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885
In 8s (216 x 165 mm). Frontispiece and 173 text illustrations by E. W. Kemble, photogravure plate of a portrait bust of Clemens by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 1), title-leaf a cancel with copyright notice dated 1884. Publisher's pictorial green cloth, stamped in gilt and black, peach-colored endpapers, plain edges; slight rubbing at extremities. Half green morocco slipcase, chemise.
A fine, bright copy of the first American edition, early state, with BAL points: page [13], state 1; page 57, state 1; page 155, state 1; page 283, state 3.
REFERENCE
BAL 3415; Grolier, American 87; Johnson, pp. 43–50
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