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Title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) Author: Twain, Mark Place: New York Publisher: Charles L. Webster & Company Date: 1885 Description: 366 pp. Double frontispiece (including portrait), with tissue-guard, plus numerous wood engravings throughout. (8vo), original full sheep, rebacked in a period style. First Edition. The rare sheep [i.e. library] binding, as issued by the publisher. As usual, this is a mixed issue, exhibiting the following states, among others: title leaf is conjugate, with copyright notice dated 1884 (3rd state); illustration captioned Him and another Man [p.13] listed as p.88 (1st state); 11th line from bottom of p.57 reads "...with the was..." (1st state); p. 283 is conjugate, with corrected engraving (4th state); final 5 in p.155 is not present (1st (2nd?) state); 2nd state of the frontispiece with artist's name on the shoulder of the bust and the table cloth not visible. BAL 3415 Lot Amendments Condition: A nicely restored copy, hinges repaired, some foxing within; very good. Item number: 263940