CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE ("Mark Twain"). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ...New York: Charles L. Webster and Company 1885. Another copy, small 4to, original pictorial BLUE cloth, blocked and lettered in gilt and black, spine slightly darkened, extreme ends of spine worn, minute wear to corners. 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 1 (2?) of pagination on p. 155 with the final "5" lacking; the title-leaf a cancel; state 3 of p. 283 (the leaf is a cancel); state 1 of portrait frontispiece (tablecloth visible); final leaf blank. Illustrations by E.W. Kemble. BAL 3415; Grolier American 87. Johnson Clemens, pp. 43-50; Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 75-76. A very good bright copy in the rarer blue cloth binding.

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CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE ("Mark Twain"). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ...New York: Charles L. Webster and Company 1885. Another copy, small 4to, original pictorial BLUE cloth, blocked and lettered in gilt and black, spine slightly darkened, extreme ends of spine worn, minute wear to corners. 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 1 (2?) of pagination on p. 155 with the final "5" lacking; the title-leaf a cancel; state 3 of p. 283 (the leaf is a cancel); state 1 of portrait frontispiece (tablecloth visible); final leaf blank. Illustrations by E.W. Kemble. BAL 3415; Grolier American 87. Johnson Clemens, pp. 43-50; Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 75-76. A very good bright copy in the rarer blue cloth binding.