CLEMENS, SAMUEL ("Mark Twain"). 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, touch of rubbing to extremities; half morocco slipcase. 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; state 3 of pagination on folio 155 with final "5" present and extending slightly below the figures that precede it; the title-leaf a cancel; state 3 of p. 283 (on stub); the frontispiece in first state; the final leaf blank. BAL 3415; Johnson/Clemens, pp. 43-50; Peter Parley to Penrod, pp.75-76; Grolier/American 87. A fine bright copy.

細節

CLEMENS, SAMUEL ("Mark Twain"). 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, touch of rubbing to extremities; half morocco slipcase. 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; state 3 of pagination on folio 155 with final "5" present and extending slightly below the figures that precede it; the title-leaf a cancel; state 3 of p. 283 (on stub); the frontispiece in first state; the final leaf blank. BAL 3415; Johnson/Clemens, pp. 43-50; Peter Parley to Penrod, pp.75-76; Grolier/American 87. A fine bright copy.

來源

J. H. Davis, with signature on front flyleaf (dated 1885); bookplate of Joseph Fisher Loewi.