CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)...New York: Charles L. Webster and Company 1885. Small 4to, original green cloth, blocked and lettered in gilt and black, front cover a trifle bowed, green half morocco slipcase. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, with early issue points: "was" for "saw" on p. 57, the "Him and Antoher Man" plate listed as being on p. 88; state "1(2?)" of pagination on folio 155 with final "5" lacking; the title-leaf a cancel; state 3 of p. 283 (on a stub); the frontispiece in first state; the final leaf blank. Illustrations by E.W. Kemble. BAL 3415; Johnson/Clemens, pp. 43-50; Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 75-76; Grolier/American 87. Early owner's name Harman Yerkes on inside front cover. An extremely fine, glowingly bright copy.

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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 green cloth, blocked and lettered in gilt and black, front cover a trifle bowed, green half morocco slipcase. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, with early issue points: "was" for "saw" on p. 57, the "Him and Antoher Man" plate listed as being on p. 88; state "1(2?)" of pagination on folio 155 with final "5" lacking; the title-leaf a cancel; state 3 of p. 283 (on a stub); the frontispiece in first state; the final leaf blank. Illustrations by E.W. Kemble. BAL 3415; Johnson/Clemens, pp. 43-50; Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 75-76; Grolier/American 87. Early owner's name Harman Yerkes on inside front cover. An extremely fine, glowingly bright copy.