TWAIN, MARK (=SAMUEL CLEMENS) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885. First edition, with earliest available issue points (see below). Publisher's pictorial cloth, housed in morocco backed slipcase. 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches (21.5 x 16.5 cm); 366 pp., steel engravings throughout. A very attractive copy with the gilt bright and very minor shelfwear, bookplate with residue from adhesive affecting pastedown and front endpaper, otherwise internally clean. With the following points: The frontispiece portrait marked "Heliotype Printing Company" with cloth clearly visible underneath the bust; the title in usual 2nd state (a cancel with copyright page dated 1884); p. 9 with "Huck Decided to Leave" instead of "Decides"; p. 13 misprinted "88" in place of "87"; p. 57 misprinted "with the was" instead of "saw"; final five missing in p. 155 in (1st or 2nd state); p. 283 is a cancel. BAL 3415. C From the Collection of Nancy Susan Reynolds
TWAIN, MARK (=SAMUEL CLEMENS) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885. First edition, with earliest available issue points (see below). Publisher's pictorial cloth, housed in morocco backed slipcase. 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches (21.5 x 16.5 cm); 366 pp., steel engravings throughout. A very attractive copy with the gilt bright and very minor shelfwear, bookplate with residue from adhesive affecting pastedown and front endpaper, otherwise internally clean. With the following points: The frontispiece portrait marked "Heliotype Printing Company" with cloth clearly visible underneath the bust; the title in usual 2nd state (a cancel with copyright page dated 1884); p. 9 with "Huck Decided to Leave" instead of "Decides"; p. 13 misprinted "88" in place of "87"; p. 57 misprinted "with the was" instead of "saw"; final five missing in p. 155 in (1st or 2nd state); p. 283 is a cancel. BAL 3415. C From the Collection of Nancy Susan Reynolds
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