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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1st Edition 1885

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Title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)
Author: Twain, Mark
Description: 366 pp., blank leaf. Double frontispiece (including portrait), plus numerous wood engravings throughout. (8vo) 8½x6½, original decorative green cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt and black. First American Edition.An early issue of this landmark of American literature, exhibiting the following issue points: title-leaf is a cancel with copyright dated 1884 (second state, but the first state was only seen in a prospectus and set of advance sheets); 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 a cancel leaf, with corrected engraving (third state), the final 5 in p.155 is replaced and is slightly larger than the rest (third state); leaf 23-8 is present as a blank; second state of the frontispiece portrait (imprint of Heliotype with tablecloth not visible). BAL 3414.
Heading: zzePlace Published: New York
Publisher: Charles L. Webster
Date Published: 1885