Huckleberry Finn
by Samuel L. Clemens
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia, PA: David McKay Company, 1945 David McKay Company, Philadelphia, PA. c1945. Hardcover. Edition/Printing not stated. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; repaired tear in front endpaper; bumped tips, head, and tail; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; trace rubbing to paste-on illustration on front board. No DJ. Red cloth boards and spine with bright black lettering on the spine; pictorial endpapers; paste-on illustration on front board; color frontispiece of Huck and Tom; Pen and Ink illustrations throughout. 412 pp 812mo. A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down the river with a runaway slave, encountering a family involved in a feud, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt who mistakes him for Tom. A clean very presentable copy.
Synopsis
"Two young boys, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, have each come into a considerable sum of money as a result of their earlier adventures ([*The Adventures of Tom Sawyer*][1]). Huck has been placed under the guardianship of the Widow Douglas, who, together with her sister, Miss Watson, are attempting to "sivilize" him..." (From the Wikipedia article) [1]: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL53919W/Adventures_of_Tom_Sawyer
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016122
- Title
- Huckleberry Finn
- Author
- Samuel L. Clemens
- Illustrator
- Charles B. Falls
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- David McKay Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, PA
- Date Published
- 1945
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, Samuel L. Clemens, Mark Twain, youth fiction, adolescent fiction, racism, Negro slaves, slave story, Mississippi River, Southern fiction,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adolescent/Childrens Books;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- A.N.
- The book is pristine and free of any defects, in the same condition as ...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...