Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 209

Price Realized: $ 5,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
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); 8 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.

BAL 3415; Johnson pp. 59-60.