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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), with tissue-guard, plus numerous wood engravings throughout. (8vo) 21.5x16.3 cm (8½x6½"), original decorative green cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt and black. Custom two-part green cloth box. First American Edition, early state.

First edition of the quintessential classic of 19th century American literature. The present copy exhibits the following issue points: title leaf is a integral, with copyright notice dated 1884 (third state); 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 an integral leaf with the corrected engraving (fourth state); the final 5 in the numeration of page 155 is not present (first (second?) state); leaf 23-8 is present as a blank, first state of the frontispiece portrait (imprint of Heliotype with tablecloth visible). BAL 3415.

Spine ends frayed, repair to head of spine, short split at bottom of front joint; light foxing; very good.