Jun 20, 2013 - Sale 2319

Sale 2319 - Lot 282

Price Realized: $ 900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
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 2), 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, spine tips and corners rubbed, few scattered marks to covers; scattered foxing internally, heaviest to early and last signatures, repaired tears on first blank and half-title/frontispiece leaf, textblock still sound in binding; small bookplate on front pastedown. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885

Additional Details

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; and with third state point for page 283 (leaf is a cancel, with vertical line on trousers). BAL 3415; Peter Parley to Penrod pp. 75-76.