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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. Double frontispiece (including portrait), with tissue-guard, plus numerous wood engravings throughout. (8vo) 21.5x16.3 cm (8½x6½"), original decorative green cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt and black. First American Edition.

First edition of the quintessential classic of 19th century American literature. The present copy exhibits the following issue points: title leaf is a cancel with copyright notice 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, with corrected engraving (third state, but earliest known state in cloth-bound copies), the final 5 in the numeration of page 155 is in larger point size and extends below the line of the figures preceding it (third state); leaf 23-8 is present as a blank, first state of the frontispiece portrait (imprint of Heliotype with tablecloth visible). BAL 3415. Early ownership marks of Luther Thomas on preliminary blank dated Christmas 1887.

Light rubbing to cloth and at ends of slightly darkened spine; only light wear, slight stain to fore-edge of a few leaves, a couple of minuscule chips, slight bump to textblock at bottom edge leaving a few minuscule closed tears, rough bottom edge on leaf 20-5, one slightly sprung signature; still a remarkably well-preserved copy, near fine.