CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)...New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. Small 4to, ORIGINAL DARK BROWN HALF MOROCCO GILT AND MARBLED BOARD SIDES, MARBLED EDGES, light wear at ends of spine, fore-corners, and board edges; dark green half morocco slipcase. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION IN THE RARE PUBLISHER'S DELUXE BINDING, with early issue points: THE RARE STATE 1 OF P. 283 WITH THE ENGRAVING (THE INFAMOUS "FLY" PLATE) IN THE ORIGINAL STATE before defacement, the leaf integral to the original quire ("In this original state the leaf has been seen only in early prospectuses and in leather bound copies of the published book" -- BAL); "was" for "saw" on p. 57, line 23; the "Him and Another Man" plate listed in the list of illustrations as being on p. 88; state 1 (2?) of the pagination on p. 155 with the final "5" lacking; state 3 of title-leaf; state 2 of portrait frontispiece; final leaf blank. Illustrations by E.W. Kemble. BAL 4515; Grolier American 87; Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 75-76. The rarest of the publisher's six bindings for Huckleberry Finn. "All American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain...It's the best book we've had. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since" -- Ernest Hemingway in Green Hills of Africa.Provenance: Leigh B. Block, bookplate.

CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)...New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. Small 4to, ORIGINAL DARK BROWN HALF MOROCCO GILT AND MARBLED BOARD SIDES, MARBLED EDGES, light wear at ends of spine, fore-corners, and board edges; dark green half morocco slipcase. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION IN THE RARE PUBLISHER'S DELUXE BINDING, with early issue points: THE RARE STATE 1 OF P. 283 WITH THE ENGRAVING (THE INFAMOUS "FLY" PLATE) IN THE ORIGINAL STATE before defacement, the leaf integral to the original quire ("In this original state the leaf has been seen only in early prospectuses and in leather bound copies of the published book" -- BAL); "was" for "saw" on p. 57, line 23; the "Him and Another Man" plate listed in the list of illustrations as being on p. 88; state 1 (2?) of the pagination on p. 155 with the final "5" lacking; state 3 of title-leaf; state 2 of portrait frontispiece; final leaf blank. Illustrations by E.W. Kemble. BAL 4515; Grolier American 87; Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 75-76. The rarest of the publisher's six bindings for Huckleberry Finn. "All American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain...It's the best book we've had. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since" -- Ernest Hemingway in Green Hills of Africa. Provenance: Leigh B. Block, bookplate.

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CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)...New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. Small 4to, ORIGINAL DARK BROWN HALF MOROCCO GILT AND MARBLED BOARD SIDES, MARBLED EDGES, light wear at ends of spine, fore-corners, and board edges; dark green half morocco slipcase. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION IN THE RARE PUBLISHER'S DELUXE BINDING, with early issue points: THE RARE STATE 1 OF P. 283 WITH THE ENGRAVING (THE INFAMOUS "FLY" PLATE) IN THE ORIGINAL STATE before defacement, the leaf integral to the original quire ("In this original state the leaf has been seen only in early prospectuses and in leather bound copies of the published book" -- BAL); "was" for "saw" on p. 57, line 23; the "Him and Another Man" plate listed in the list of illustrations as being on p. 88; state 1 (2?) of the pagination on p. 155 with the final "5" lacking; state 3 of title-leaf; state 2 of portrait frontispiece; final leaf blank. Illustrations by E.W. Kemble. BAL 4515; Grolier American 87; Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 75-76. The rarest of the publisher's six bindings for Huckleberry Finn. "All American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain...It's the best book we've had. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since" -- Ernest Hemingway in Green Hills of Africa.

Provenance: Leigh B. Block, bookplate.