CLEMENS, SAMUEL ("Mark Twain"). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). New York, 1885. Illustrations by E.W. Kemble. Small 4to, original publishers sheep, defective, needs rebuilding; a few gatherings or leaves loose. FIRST EDITION, with early issue points: "was"for "saw" on p. 57, the "HIm and Another Man" plate listed as being on p. 88; state "1(2?)" of pagination on folio 155 with final "5" lacking; the title-leaf is conjugate with [1]7; state 2 of p. 283 (conjugate); the frontispiece in second state; the final leaf blank. BAL 3415.

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CLEMENS, SAMUEL ("Mark Twain"). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). New York, 1885. Illustrations by E.W. Kemble. Small 4to, original publishers sheep, defective, needs rebuilding; a few gatherings or leaves loose. FIRST EDITION, with early issue points: "was"for "saw" on p. 57, the "HIm and Another Man" plate listed as being on p. 88; state "1(2?)" of pagination on folio 155 with final "5" lacking; the title-leaf is conjugate with [1]7; state 2 of p. 283 (conjugate); the frontispiece in second state; the final leaf blank. BAL 3415.
Provenance
J.B. Slaight, with his name gilt-stamped on front cover.

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