CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain") (1835-1910). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.

8vo. Half-title, frontispiece by E. W. Kemble, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt [BAL state 1], numerous illustrations. (Some light soiling, creasing, and spotting.) Original green pictorial cloth stamped in black and gilt (rebacked preserving original spine and endpapers, a few tears with repairs to endpapers, some wear and soiling).

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, early issue with the following issue points: the frontispiece in the first state; title-leaf in the second state; first state of p. 13 with "Him and Another Man" plate listed as being on p. 88; first state of p. 57 with “was”; third state of p. 155; second state of p.283 (tipped-in); with final blank 23/8. BAL 3415; Johnson pp. 43-50.
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