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Twain, Mark (1853-1910) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Estimate:
$2,000 - $3,000
Sold
$3,200
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Description
Twain, Mark (1853-1910)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

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

First American edition, octavo, with first state of portrait and 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 first state; bound in original green publisher's gilt-decorated pictorial cloth with peach endpapers; thumbed, a few minor stains; front board slightly loose, joint starting, rubbed; 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.
Condition
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