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Lot 200
CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain"). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.
Closed14 December 2016
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CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain"). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.
"All modern American literature comes from one book by mark twain called Huckleberry Finn"--Ernest Hemingway in The Green Hills of Africa
First American edition, early state, with early issue points: first state of p. 57 with "was" for "saw"; first state of the "Him and Another Man" plate listed as being on p. 88; first state of pagination on folio 155 (the final five lacking); the title leaf is a cancel with 1884 copyright date; third state of p. 283; the frontispiece is in first state. In addition, the present copy contains leaf 23/8, which Blanck states he has never seen in a copy containing all first issue points. He states, however, that the leaf is found in publisher's leather-bound copies. A fine bright copy.
8vo. Lithographic frontispiece by E.W. Kemble, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 1), illustrations in text. Original green gilt-decorated pictorial cloth (very minor rubbing to spine extremities, upper fore-corner bumpted, otherwise very fine and bright); cloth slipcase. Provenance: Ralph W. Milne (signature on front pastedown dated 1886). BAL 3415; Grolier American 87; Johnson, pp. 43-50.
"All modern American literature comes from one book by mark twain called Huckleberry Finn"--Ernest Hemingway in The Green Hills of Africa
First American edition, early state, with early issue points: first state of p. 57 with "was" for "saw"; first state of the "Him and Another Man" plate listed as being on p. 88; first state of pagination on folio 155 (the final five lacking); the title leaf is a cancel with 1884 copyright date; third state of p. 283; the frontispiece is in first state. In addition, the present copy contains leaf 23/8, which Blanck states he has never seen in a copy containing all first issue points. He states, however, that the leaf is found in publisher's leather-bound copies. A fine bright copy.
8vo. Lithographic frontispiece by E.W. Kemble, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 1), illustrations in text. Original green gilt-decorated pictorial cloth (very minor rubbing to spine extremities, upper fore-corner bumpted, otherwise very fine and bright); cloth slipcase. Provenance: Ralph W. Milne (signature on front pastedown dated 1886). BAL 3415; Grolier American 87; Johnson, pp. 43-50.
CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain"). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.
"All modern American literature comes from one book by mark twain called Huckleberry Finn"--Ernest Hemingway in The Green Hills of Africa
First American edition, early state, with early issue points: first state of p. 57 with "was" for "saw"; first state of the "Him and Another Man" plate listed as being on p. 88; first state of pagination on folio 155 (the final five lacking); the title leaf is a cancel with 1884 copyright date; third state of p. 283; the frontispiece is in first state. In addition, the present copy contains leaf 23/8, which Blanck states he has never seen in a copy containing all first issue points. He states, however, that the leaf is found in publisher's leather-bound copies. A fine bright copy.
8vo. Lithographic frontispiece by E.W. Kemble, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 1), illustrations in text. Original green gilt-decorated pictorial cloth (very minor rubbing to spine extremities, upper fore-corner bumpted, otherwise very fine and bright); cloth slipcase. Provenance: Ralph W. Milne (signature on front pastedown dated 1886). BAL 3415; Grolier American 87; Johnson, pp. 43-50.
"All modern American literature comes from one book by mark twain called Huckleberry Finn"--Ernest Hemingway in The Green Hills of Africa
First American edition, early state, with early issue points: first state of p. 57 with "was" for "saw"; first state of the "Him and Another Man" plate listed as being on p. 88; first state of pagination on folio 155 (the final five lacking); the title leaf is a cancel with 1884 copyright date; third state of p. 283; the frontispiece is in first state. In addition, the present copy contains leaf 23/8, which Blanck states he has never seen in a copy containing all first issue points. He states, however, that the leaf is found in publisher's leather-bound copies. A fine bright copy.
8vo. Lithographic frontispiece by E.W. Kemble, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 1), illustrations in text. Original green gilt-decorated pictorial cloth (very minor rubbing to spine extremities, upper fore-corner bumpted, otherwise very fine and bright); cloth slipcase. Provenance: Ralph W. Milne (signature on front pastedown dated 1886). BAL 3415; Grolier American 87; Johnson, pp. 43-50.