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[CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE] ("Mark Twain"). KEMBLE, E.W. An original pen & ink drawing of Tom Sawyer for Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), 200 x 163mm. (8 x 6 3/8in.), on heavy card stock, slight marginal soiling, two marginal pinholes, remnants of mounting on verso, signed, labeled by Kemble at the bottom margin in pencil: "Chap 33. Then he makes a graceful bow. Pge 120," with two other editorial pencil notes at bottom. In very good condition.
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[CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE] ("Mark Twain"). KEMBLE, E.W. An original pen & ink drawing of Tom Sawyer for Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), 200 x 163mm. (8 x 6 3/8in.), on heavy card stock, slight marginal soiling, two marginal pinholes, remnants of mounting on verso, signed, labeled by Kemble at the bottom margin in pencil: "Chap 33. Then he makes a graceful bow. Pge 120," with two other editorial pencil notes at bottom. In very good condition.
The drawing is for the illustration captioned "Mr. Archibald Nichols, I Presume?" that appears on page 287 (in Chapter XXXIII) of the first American edition, showing Tom appearing at Aunt Sally's where Huck is staying. "...we was all bunched in the front door. Tom had his store clothes on, and an audience -- and that was always nuts for Tom Sawyer. In them circumstances it warn't no trouble to him to throw in an amount of style that was suitable. He warn't a boy to meeky along up that yard like a sheep; no, he come ca'm and important, like the ram. When he got afront of us, he lifts his hat ever so gracious and dainty, like it was the lid of a box that had butterflies asleep in it and he didn't want to disturb them, and says: 'Mr. Archibald Nichols, I presume?'..." (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, New York, 1885, p. 287). Kemble drawings for Huckleberry Finn are rare (despite there being four in this sale).
The drawing is for the illustration captioned "Mr. Archibald Nichols, I Presume?" that appears on page 287 (in Chapter XXXIII) of the first American edition, showing Tom appearing at Aunt Sally's where Huck is staying. "...we was all bunched in the front door. Tom had his store clothes on, and an audience -- and that was always nuts for Tom Sawyer. In them circumstances it warn't no trouble to him to throw in an amount of style that was suitable. He warn't a boy to meeky along up that yard like a sheep; no, he come ca'm and important, like the ram. When he got afront of us, he lifts his hat ever so gracious and dainty, like it was the lid of a box that had butterflies asleep in it and he didn't want to disturb them, and says: 'Mr. Archibald Nichols, I presume?'..." (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, New York, 1885, p. 287). Kemble drawings for Huckleberry Finn are rare (despite there being four in this sale).