CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)...New York: Charles L. Webster and Company 1885. Small 4to, ORIGINAL PUBLISHER'S SHEEP, gilt-lettered red and black roan spine labels, crack along front outer joint, some slight wear at head of spine and a lower fore-corner; half morocco folding case. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, with early issue points: "was" for "saw" 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 the pagination on p. 155 with the final "5" lacking; state 3 of title-leaf (not a cancel); state 3 of p. 283 (the leaf a cancel); state 2 of portrait frontispiece; final leaf blank. Illustrations by E.W. Kemble. BAL 4515; Grolier American 87; Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 75-76. A very good copy of the rare sheep binding, usually found in poor condition.

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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 PUBLISHER'S SHEEP, gilt-lettered red and black roan spine labels, crack along front outer joint, some slight wear at head of spine and a lower fore-corner; half morocco folding case. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, with early issue points: "was" for "saw" 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 the pagination on p. 155 with the final "5" lacking; state 3 of title-leaf (not a cancel); state 3 of p. 283 (the leaf a cancel); state 2 of portrait frontispiece; final leaf blank. Illustrations by E.W. Kemble. BAL 4515; Grolier American 87; Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 75-76. A very good copy of the rare sheep binding, usually found in poor condition.