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Huck Finn with the rare "curved fly" illustration

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

366 pp., blank. Double frontispiece (including portrait), with tissue-guard, plus numerous wood engravings throughout. (8vo), original full sheep, spine leather perished. First Edition.

Rare issue with the first state of p.283, on an integral leaf showing the bulge in Silas' trousers. The present copy exhibits the following issue points: title leaf is 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 conjugate, with the line indicating the fly on Silas Phelps' trousers being a definite curve (first state, seen only in prospectuses and leather bound copies), the final 5 in p.155 is slightly larger (third state); leaf 23-8 is present as a blank, second state of the frontispiece portrait (imprint of Heliotype and sculptor's name added to shoulder with tablecloth not visible). Very rare.

Condition

Spine perished, front cover detached, rear cover attached only by binding cords, boards worn and soiled, old cloth tape on hinges; partially disbound with first signature and several scattered leaves detached; worthy of restoration.

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Huck Finn with the rare "curved fly" illustration

Name: Huck Finn with the rare \"curved fly\" illustration
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Price: 2500 USD
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