TWAIN MARK Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Sale 2388 - Lot 252

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Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800

TWAIN. MARK. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Frontispiece and text illustrations by E.W. Kemble, photogravure plate of a portrait bust by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 1). 8vo, publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black, few stray marks to covers, spine tips and corners rubbed with slight exposure; slightly shaken with hinge starting, minimal foxing internally. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885

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first american edition. With BAL first state points: page [13] with illustration caption incorrect ("88"), page 57 reads "with the was"; page 155 state 3 (final 5 extending below the line), third state point for page 283 (leaf is a cancel, with vertical line on trousers); "Decided" on p. [9]. MacDonnell, Firsts, vol. 8, no. 7/8, 1998; BAL 3415; Peter Parley to Penrod pp. 75-76.