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CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain") (1835–
CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain") (1835–
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CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain") (1835–1910). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. 8vo (216 x 165 mm). Lithographic frontispiece by E. W. Kemble with tissue–guard, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 3), in–text illustrations throughout. Original publisher’s blue gilt–decorated pictorial cloth (spotting to extremities, extreme ends worn with some rubbing at corners, joints tender). Provenance: contemporary gift signature on ffep. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, later state, with the following issue points: the title leaf is either in the second or third state (first state only noted in the prospectus; no copy has ever been seen or reported); third state portrait frontispiece; second state of p. 13 with "Him and Another Man" plate correctly listed as being on p. 87; second state of p. 57 with the correct spelling for “saw”; third state of pagination on p. 155; with final blank 23–8. BAL 3415; Johnson, pp. 43–50.
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CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain") (1835–

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