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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Tom Sawyer’s Comrade].
by Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Palm Beach, Florida, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. First edition of Twain's masterpiece, with the first state of the frontispiece portrait. Octavo, original publisher's decorated green cloth gilt to the spine and front panel. With frontispiece portrait of Twain inserted at front (with the imprint of the Heliotype Printing Co., but the cloth is not visible). This example exhibits the following issue points: title leaf is conjugate. Copyright notice dated 1884; 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 an integral leaf with the corrected engraving; the final 5 in the numeration of page 155 is larger than the first and slightly below the others; leaf 23-8 is present as a blank; first state of the frontispiece portrait (imprint of Heliotype with tablecloth visible). In near fine condition with light toning to the extremities. A very bright example.
Synopsis
Commonly named among the Great American novels, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain, is generally regarded as the sequel to his earlier novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; however, in Huckleberry Finn, Twain focused increasingly on the institution of slavery and the South. Narrated by Huckleberry “Huck” Finn in Southern antebellum vernacular, the novel gives vivid descriptions of people and daily life along the Mississippi River while following the adventure of Huck and a runaway slave, Jim, rafting their way to freedom.
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- Bookseller
- Raptis Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85975
- Title
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Tom Sawyer’s Comrade].
- Author
- Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles L. Webster and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1885
- Keywords
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, e.w. kemble illustrator, first edition issue points, Huck Finn First Edition, kemble illustrator huckleberry finn, Mark Twain First Edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Octavo
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