CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)...New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. Small 4to, original pictorial dark green cloth, blocked and lettered in gilt and black, wear at ends of spine and two fore-corners, rear free endpaper wrinkled, an inch tear in "illustrations" leaf touching two letters, green cloth folding case. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, with early issue points: "was" for "waw" 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 page 283 (the leaf a cancel); state 1 of portrait frontispiece (table-cloth visible); final leaf blank. Illustrations by E.W. Kemble. BAL 3415; Grolier American 87; Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 75-76.

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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 pictorial dark green cloth, blocked and lettered in gilt and black, wear at ends of spine and two fore-corners, rear free endpaper wrinkled, an inch tear in "illustrations" leaf touching two letters, green cloth folding case. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, with early issue points: "was" for "waw" 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 page 283 (the leaf a cancel); state 1 of portrait frontispiece (table-cloth visible); final leaf blank. Illustrations by E.W. Kemble. BAL 3415; Grolier American 87; Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 75-76.

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