Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn First Edition, mixed issue
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Author: Twain, Mark
Title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Charles L. Webster and Company
Date Published: 1885
Description:
Author: Twain, Mark
Title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Charles L. Webster and Company
Date Published: 1885
Description:
366 pp., blank leaf. Double frontispiece (including portrait), plus numerous wood engravings throughout. (8vo), 8½x6½, original decorative green cloth. First American Edition, Mixed State.
A landmark of American literature, this copy exhibiting the following issue points: title leaf is conjugate with copyright notice dated 1884 (third state); the illustration captioned "Him and another Man" [p.13] listed at p.88 (first state); 11th line from bottom of p.57 reads "...with the was..." (first state); p. 283 is a cancel leaf, with corrected engraving (third state); second state of the frontispiece portrait (imprint Heliotype Printing Co., tablecloth not visible). BAL 3415.
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Disbound and heavily worn, lacking front endpaper, some soiling and chipping to text leaves; poor condition.
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Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn First Edition, mixed issue
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