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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Author: Twain, Mark Place Published: New York Publisher: Charles L. Webster and Company Date Published: 1885 Description: 366 pp. Double frontispiece (including portrait) plus numerous wood engravings after E.W. Kemble. 21.5x16.5 cm (8½x6½"), original green pictorial cloth stamped in black and gilt, some neat repairs to spine tips and extremities, later slipcase. First U.S. edition. Early issue of the American classic, with the following points: title-leaf verso with copyright dated 1884, appears to be a cancel; illustration "Him and another man" listed at p.88; p.57, "with the was"; p.155, final '5' lacking; p.283 a cancel; portrait frontispiece state 2 with no tablecloth visible and Karl Gerhardt Sc. added. BAL 3414. Condition: Light wear to cloth, occasional foxing, dog-eared pages; very good. Item#: 368253 Headline: Huckleberry Finn, 1st U.S. ed. early state