CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE ("Mark Twain"). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)...By Mark Twain. London: Chatto & Windus 1884. 8vo, original red cloth, pictorial black stamping, gilt-lettered; half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, preceding the American edition by a few days, BAL's State A of the sheets (no priority), 174 illustrations by E.W. Kemble, advertisements at rear dated October, 1884. BAL 3414; see Grolier American 87. A very fine copy and rare in this condition.

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CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE ("Mark Twain"). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)...By Mark Twain. London: Chatto & Windus 1884. 8vo, original red cloth, pictorial black stamping, gilt-lettered; half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, preceding the American edition by a few days, BAL's State A of the sheets (no priority), 174 illustrations by E.W. Kemble, advertisements at rear dated October, 1884. BAL 3414; see Grolier American 87. A very fine copy and rare in this condition.

Provenance: Katharine de B. Parsons, bookplate (sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 6 October 1976, lot 39).