Apr 11, 2024 - Sale 2665

Sale 2665 - Lot 178

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
Twain, Mark (1853-1910)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1884.

First English edition, preceding the American, octavo, state A of text leaves with a later issue of 32 pages of publisher's ads at rear dated April 1885, half-title present, illustrated with frontispiece and numerous text illustrations by E.W. Kemble; bound in red publisher's cloth stamped with gold and black, endpapers printed with ochre floral pattern; one small closed tear to margin of page 399; spine sunned, lightly bumped at spine ends and corners, minor stains to boards, very slight lean; 7 3/8 x 5 in.

BAL 3414.

Provenance: Steve Forbes Collection.