Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain, 1885
CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (“Mark Twain”, 1835-1910). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.
“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn”—Ernest Hemingway
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; third state of pagination on folio 155 (the final five larger); the title leaf is a cancel with 1884 copyright date; fourth 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. BAL 3415; Grolier American 87; Johnson, pp. 43-50.
Octavo. Frontispiece by E.W. Kemble, photographic portrait of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 1), illustrations in text. Original gilt-decorated pictorial cloth (light rubbing to spine ends and corners); green quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: A. Feo (neat ownership inscription dated 1945).
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain, 1885
CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (“Mark Twain”, 1835-1910). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.
“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn”—Ernest Hemingway
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; third state of pagination on folio 155 (the final five larger); the title leaf is a cancel with 1884 copyright date; fourth 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. BAL 3415; Grolier American 87; Johnson, pp. 43-50.
Octavo. Frontispiece by E.W. Kemble, photographic portrait of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 1), illustrations in text. Original gilt-decorated pictorial cloth (light rubbing to spine ends and corners); green quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: A. Feo (neat ownership inscription dated 1945).
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