TWAIN MARK Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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TWAIN, MARK. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Lithographic frontispiece and text illustrations by E.W. Kemble, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt. Small 4to, original green cloth stamped in gilt and black, slightly shaken though textblock sound, extremities rubbed with exposure to spine tips and corners, few small scratches; pp. 247-250 partly loose, scattered minor soiling. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885

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first american edition, with the following points: page [13], the illustration captioned 'Him and another Man' is incorrectly listed as at p. 88 (BAL first state); page 57, the eleventh line from the bottom reads 'with the was' instead of 'with the saw' (BAL first state); page 155 lacking final 5 (BAL first state). MacDonnell's first state with 'Huck Decided' on page 9. BAL 3415; MacDonnell, Firsts, vol. 8, no. 7/8, 1998, p. 31.