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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 pictorial dark green cloth, blocked and lettered in gilt and black, slight wear at ends of spine and fore-corners, rear cover faintly soiled and a trifle bowed. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, with early issue points: "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 3 of the pagination on p. 155 with the final "5" replaced and extending below the line; the title-leaf a cancel; state 3 of p. 283 (the leaf is a cancel); state 1 of portrait frontispiece (table-cloth visible); final leaf blank. Illustrations by E.W. Kemble. BAL 3415; Grolier American 87; Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 75-76.
Provenance: Pencilled ownership inscription on verso of front free endpaper "H.B. Chase, Portland, Or., Bought in Boston, Mass., May 14/85."
Provenance: Pencilled ownership inscription on verso of front free endpaper "H.B. Chase, Portland, Or., Bought in Boston, Mass., May 14/85."