Huckleberry Finn in original morocco binding
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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. + 2 blank leaves. Double frontispiece (including portrait), with tissue-guard, plus numerous wood engravings throughout. (8vo) original brown half morocco and boards, marbled edges. First Edition.
First edition of the quintessential classic of 19th century American literature in the scarce original publisher's half morocco. 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, with slight variation, straight (fourth state), the final 5 in p.155 is lacking (first (second?) 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). BAL 3414.
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