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First edition of Twain's landmark of American literature
First edition of Twain's landmark of American literature
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TWAIN, MARK [CLEMENS, SAMUEL]

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885. First edition, first issue points listed below. Publisher's green cloth, decorated in gilt and blind, housed in agreen morocco backed slipcase. Spine tips and corners rubbed, short split to hinge, label removed from pastedown, soiling to some text leaves.

First edition of Mark Twain's landmark of American literature, The Adventures of Huckberry Finn. Despite being written in a vernacular style, the novel offers a unique view of slavery, racism, and other aspects of American culture before the Civil War. The book has been highly influential, prompting Ernest Hemingway to declatre that "all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.”

The first issue points include. The frontispiece portrait marked "Heliotype Printing Company" with cloth clearly visible underneath the bust; the title in usual 2nd state (a cancel with copyright page dated 1884); p. 9 with "Huck Decided to Leave" instead of "Decides"; p. 13 misprinted "88" in place of "87"; p. 57 misprinted "with the was" instead of "saw"; final five missing in p. 155 in (1st or 2nd state); p. 283 is a cancel. BAL 3415.

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