TWAIN MARK Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Sale 2355 - Lot 259

Price Realized: $ 2,125

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Estimate: $ 1,800 - $ 2,500

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), title-leaf is a cancel with copyright notice on verso dated 1884 (BAL state 2). 8vo, publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black, few stray marks to covers, spine tips rubbed with slight exposure, but presents well; 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 lacking final 5, third state point for page 283 (leaf is a cancel, with vertical line on trousers); and with "Decided" on p. [9]. MacDonnell, Firsts, vol. 8, no. 7/8, 1998; BAL 3415; Peter Parley to Penrod pp. 75-76.