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Author: Twain, Mark
Title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Charles L. Webster
Date Published: 1885
Description:

366 pp. Double frontispiece (including portrait), plus numerous wood engravings throughout. (8vo) 21.5x16.3 cm (8½x6½"), original decorative green cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt and black; custom cloth folding case and morocco backed slipcase lettered in gilt. First American Edition.

First edition of the quintessential classic of 19th century American literature. The present copy exhibits the following issue points: title leaf with copyright notice dated 1884 (second state, but the first state was only seen in a prospectus and set of advance sheets); the illustration captioned "Him and another Man" [p.13] listed as p.88 (first state); 11th line from bottom of p.57 reads "...with the was." (first state); p. 283 is a cancel, with corrected engraving (third state, but earliest known state in cloth-bound copies), the final 5 in the numeration of page 155 is in larger point size and extends below the line of the figures preceding it (third state); leaf 23-8 is present as a blank, first state of the frontispiece portrait (imprint of Heliotype with tablecloth visible). BAL 3415. Early ownership [Mrs. L.W. Kellogg?] signature on front free endpaper.

Light wear to cloth with some rubbing, a few scuffs and touches of soiling; front hinge cracked, with tear to front free endpaper, tissue guard intact, scattered marginal foxing, occasional faint creases to top corner of leaves, binding otherwise solid; very good.