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TWAIN, MARK. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Lithographic frontispiece and text illustrations by E.W. Kemble, photographic portrait (BAL state 1, with the tablecloth visible) by Karl Gerhardt. Small 4to, publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in black and gilt, trace of rubbing to spine tips and corners; binding tight, internally clean, unmarked and free from usual foxing. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885
first edition in the green cloth. a superlative copy of twain's masterpiece. "All modern literature comes from one book by Mark Twain. It's the best book we've had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since" (Ernest Hemingway, The Green Hills of Africa). With early issue points: p. [13] state 1 ("Him and another man"); p.57 state 1 ("was" for "saw" line 23); p. 155 state 3 (with the final "5" extending below the line); and p. 283 state 3. BAL 3415; Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 75-76.
