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CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain"). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.
Square 8o. Lithographic frontispiece by E.W. Kemble, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 1), illustrations in text. Original green gilt-decorated pictorial cloth (some slight wear at ends of spine and at corners, generally fresh and bright). Provenance: Charles Cobb Walker (bookplate).
"ALL MODERN AMERICAN LITERATURE COMES FROM ONE BOOK BY MARK TWAIN CALLED HUCKLEBERRY FINN"--Ernest Hemingway in The Green Hills of Africa.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, EARLY STATE, with early issue points: first state of p. 57 with "was" for "saw"; first state of the "Him and Another Man" plate listed as being on p. 88; third state of pagination on folio 155 (the final five present and larger); the title leaf is a cancel with 1884 copyright date; third state of p. 283; the frontispiece is in first state. BAL 3415; Grolier American 87; Johnson, pp. 43-50.
Square 8o. Lithographic frontispiece by E.W. Kemble, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 1), illustrations in text. Original green gilt-decorated pictorial cloth (some slight wear at ends of spine and at corners, generally fresh and bright). Provenance: Charles Cobb Walker (bookplate).
"ALL MODERN AMERICAN LITERATURE COMES FROM ONE BOOK BY MARK TWAIN CALLED HUCKLEBERRY FINN"--Ernest Hemingway in The Green Hills of Africa.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, EARLY STATE, with early issue points: first state of p. 57 with "was" for "saw"; first state of the "Him and Another Man" plate listed as being on p. 88; third state of pagination on folio 155 (the final five present and larger); the title leaf is a cancel with 1884 copyright date; third state of p. 283; the frontispiece is in first state. BAL 3415; Grolier American 87; Johnson, pp. 43-50.