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CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (“Mark Twain”) (1835-1910). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884.
8vo. Half-title with advertisement on verso, lithographic frontispiece by E. W. Kemble with tissue-guard, numerous in-text illustrations; 32pp. publisher's catalogue at end dated October 1884. (Closed tear at gutter to p.29, few leaves with very minor soiling, a central gathering slightly protruding, small erasure to rubberstamp on pastedown.) Original pictorial red cloth lettered in gilt and stamped in black (spine lightly sunned, few small bumps to cover edges); morocco-backed folding case.
FIRST EDITION, preceding the first American edition by several months. in BAL state A (no priority), with the gatherings sewn. BAL 3414 [State A with the gatherings sewn, no priority].
8vo. Half-title with advertisement on verso, lithographic frontispiece by E. W. Kemble with tissue-guard, numerous in-text illustrations; 32pp. publisher's catalogue at end dated October 1884. (Closed tear at gutter to p.29, few leaves with very minor soiling, a central gathering slightly protruding, small erasure to rubberstamp on pastedown.) Original pictorial red cloth lettered in gilt and stamped in black (spine lightly sunned, few small bumps to cover edges); morocco-backed folding case.
FIRST EDITION, preceding the first American edition by several months. in BAL state A (no priority), with the gatherings sewn. BAL 3414 [State A with the gatherings sewn, no priority].
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CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (“Mark Twain”) (1835-1910). The Adventures of Huckleberry
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