Details
CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)... New York, 1885. Illustrations by E. W. Kemble. Small 4to, original pictorial green cloth, blocked and lettered in gilt and black, some wear to spine ends, light rubbing, corners slightly bumped; lower hinge cracked, bookplate on front pastedown and two small owner's ink stamps on endpapers. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, with early issue points: "was" for "saw" on p. 57; the "Him and another Man" plate listed as being on p. 88; first state of pagination on folio 155 lacking final "5;" the title-leaf a cancel; state 3 of p. 283 (on stub); the portrait frontispiece with cloth under bust visible and "Heliotype" imprint. BAL 3415; Johnson/Clemens, pp. 43-50; Peter Parley to Penrod, pp.75-76; Grolier/American 87.
Provenance
Early ownership inscription on front free endpaper.