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Harper & Brothers, 1951. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

NY: Harper, 1912. 12mo, pp. 404. Frontis illustration. Red leather over flexible boards, spine stamped in gilt. Donor's presentation on blank. One hinge tender, cover worn, o/w good. Lacks piece at top of spine.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1918. (Hardcover) 373pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Color illustrated endpapers, color frontispiece, black and white and color illustrations. The spine is lightly edgeworn at the top and bottom and the dust jacket has two inch-long chips to the top edge and minor creasing and edgewear. "Mark Twain's rare insight into that remarkable combination of unexpected sweetness and fiendish ingenuity that we call Boy was never keener than in this ageless story of Huckleberry Finn's adventures with his friend Tom Sawyer on the great Mississippi". Pseudonym of Samuel L. Clemens. Main character: Huckleberry Finn; Tom Sawyer. (Juvenile, Adventure and Adventurers).

[Birmingham, AL]: The Southern Classics Library, [1982]. Sml. 4to. 366 pp. Frontisp., numerous illusts. & plates throughout. Embossed full green calf, gilt cover stamping design by Daniel B. Bianchi and Selma Ordewer, raised bands, a.e.g., marbled endpapers, NF copy. First Southern Classics Library edition of this American classic, sequel to Tom Sawyer, printed in facsimile from the original 1885 edition, much of it written in dialect, with the charming Kemble illustrations.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1910.. 8vo, xvi, 438, (2), 32 advertisement pp. Black and white illustrations, the advertisements with marginal browning. Original gilt titled blue cloth, a lovely copy. First published in the UK in 1884, and then in America the following year.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. [Literary classic] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo, pp.xvi; 438 [34]. Catalogue dated October 1884. With 174 wood-cut illustrations by Kemble. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Publisher's brown foliate endpapers. A few reading marks within, discreet rubber stamped name to half title, faint erasure to reverse side of f.e.p., spine toned, frayed/chipped to spine ends, acceptable wear to covers. Very good. Following the classic 'boy's own' adventures of the promising young gent Tom Sawyer, Twain here attempts a more mature, somewhat darker picture of a less privileged American childhood on the mighty Mississippi. Regarded by many as a cornerstone of American literature, it confronts issues such as slavery in a sympathetic yet humorously sardonic tone which belonged to Twain alone. BAL 3414. Listed in The Observer's All-Time 100 Best Novels [2003]. BMC No.261, pp.90-93.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. [Literary classic] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo, pp.xvi; 438; [2], blank. With 174 wood-cut illustrations by Kemble. Exquisitely bound by Frost of Bath in full scarlet polished calf with full gilt back, twin title labels, marbled endpapers, inner gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, original decorative cloth covers preserved at rear, bound without adverts. Internally very clean, discreet owners stamp in purple ink to half-title, binding very fine. A beautiful copy housed in a fleece-lined cloth slip-case. Following the classic 'boy's own' adventures of the promising young gent Tom Sawyer, Twain here attempts a more mature, somewhat darker picture of a less privileged American childhood on the mighty Mississippi. Regarded by many as a corner-stone of American literature, it confronts issues such as slavery in a sympathetic yet humorously sardonic tone which belonged to Twain alone. BAL 3414. Listed in The Observer's All-Time 100 Best Novels [2003]. BMC No.261, pp.90-93.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. [Literary classic] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo, pp.xvi; 438 [34]. Catalogue dated October 1884. With 174 wood-cut illustrations by Kemble. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Publisher's brown foliate endpapers. Presented in a black quarter morocco clamshell box, with gilt titles to spine, matching cloth over sides, and a fleece lining. Contents shaken within case, with some minor repairs to inside paper joints. Blind W.H. Smith & Son stamps to frontis and title page; a purple monogram stamp also to half-title. Occasional light thumbing and marking, otherwise a clean copy. Light wear only to boards, with toning to spine, and wear to head and tail. Very good. Following the classic 'boy's own' adventures of the promising young gent Tom Sawyer, Twain here attempts a more mature, somewhat darker picture of a less privileged American childhood on the mighty Mississippi. Regarded by many as a cornerstone of American literature, it… Read More

London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. [Literature] FIRST UK EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY, being novelist Sir Walter Besant's copy, a friend of the author and an early public champion of this book. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 438; [34]. With 174 wood-cut illustrations by Kemble. Pictorial red cloth boards, brown floral endpapers, later adverts dated January 1885. Illustrated bookplate to pastedown "Walter Besant, M.A." An enthusiastically read copy with some leaves roughly/poorly opened, one of which (p.383) has a resulting chip/loss. Flyleaf with some abrasion caused by clumsy offset adhesive from bookplate, cloth neatly repaired to spine. Although used, this is a copy of great significance. Walter Besant was a prolific and successful novelist of the late-Victorian period. Like Charles Dickens, many of his books concerned life in London, poverty and social hardship. He was founder and first chairman of The Society of Authors and was acknowledged by Rudyard Kipling as an influence. Knighted for services to… Read More

New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. First American Edition. Later state of the text, with the following points corrected: cancel title leaf with copyright page dated 1884, p.9 with "Decides," p.13 with the illustration "Him and Another Man" listed on p.87, "with the saw" on p.57, p.283 with straight fly on cancel leaf, p.155 with the final '5' slightly larger, signature mark lacking on p.161, leaf 238 present as final blank, and frontispiece without the tablecloth present and Photo-Gravure Company imprint. Octavo (22cm); publisher's original green cloth, with titling and pictorial elements stamped in black and gilt on spine and front cover; [9],10-366,[4]pp; illus. Wear to spine ends (especially at heel), some rubbing to corners and lower board edges, a few scuffs and a very faint stain to rear cover, with some rubbing to text edges; a few faint spots of finger-soil to margins, else text is pretty clean; hinges sound; unrepaired, Very Good or better. A pleasing copy of Twain's most… Read More