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Huck Finn with Rare "Curved Fly" Illustration

Title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)
Author: Twain, Mark
Description: 366 pp. + 2 blank leaves. Double frontispiece (including portrait), with tissue-guard, plus numerous wood engravings throughout. 8½x6½, brown half morocco and boards, marbled edges. First American Edition.Rare copy of the first edition of the quintessential classic of 19th century American literature in the original publisher's half morocco and with the 'curved fly' plate. 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 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). Copies with page 283 in the original state, prior to the famous defacement, are quite rare and do not often appear on the market. BAL 3414.
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: Charles L. Webster
Date Published: 1885