Oct 24 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2683 -

Sale 2683 - Lot 209

Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
Twain, Mark (1853-1910)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.

First American edition, octavo, with second state of portrait, first state text on pages 13 and 57, text on pages 155 and 283 in third state, blank leaf 283 is present at end, title is a cancel with copyright date 1884, with frontispiece and numerous text illustrations by E.W. Kemble, and photographic portrait by Karl Gerhardt in BAL's second state; bound in original green publisher's gilt-decorated pictorial cloth with peach endpapers (minor stains and thumbing throughout; spine caps lightly pushed, corners a touch bumped); ex libris R.H. Baker with stamp on front free fly leaf; 8 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.

BAL 3415; Johnson pp. 59-60.