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CLEMENS, Samuel L. Adventures of Hucklebery Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.

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CLEMENS, Samuel L. Adventures of Hucklebery Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.

Small 4o. Lithographic frontispiece by E.W. Kemble, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt, illustrations in text. (Marginal repair on p.155.) Original pictorial green cloth, blocked and lettered in gilt and black (ends of spine renewed, inner hinges repaired, upper hinge starting, but generally clean and bright); morocco slipcase. Provenance: William Soderberg (bookplate).

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, with early issue points: frontispiece portrait in state 1, title in state 2, p.13 in state 1, p.57 in state 1, p.155 in state 3, p.283 in state 4. BAL 3415; Grolier American 87; Johnson/Clemens, pp.43-50; Johnson High Spots 23; Peter Parley to Penrod, pp.75-76.

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