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Mark Twain. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). ...
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Mark Twain. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.8vo. With inserted frontispiece and wood-engraved text illustrations by E. W. Kemble, inserted frontispiece portrait with the "Heliotype Printing Co." imprint and the tablecloth visible (BAL first state). Publisher's original pictorial blue cloth, front board and spine stamped in black and gilt. Housed in a black cloth slipcase.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, early mixed state. Title-leaf is a cancel (BAL second state), page [9] with "Decided" (first state), page [13] with illustration listed on page 88 (BAL first state), page 57 reads "with the was" (BAL first state), page 283 is a cancel (BAL third state).
Kevin MacDonnell notes, "...the prospectus warned customers that those who wanted a blue cloth copy had to specify their preference or else a green copy would be sent... blue cloth copies are at least 20 times as rare as green cloth copies."
Condition: Color corrections to cloth in blue ink; some wear to spine ends and a bit frayed; spine just toned; corners bumped and rubbed. Ink gift inscription to front free endpaper recto; front hinge starting. Minor thumbsoiling to textblock; upper corner of p. 57 torn off, not affecting text.
References: BAL 3415; MacDonnell, FIRSTS Magazine, July/August 1998 (Vol. 8, No. 7/8), pp. 47-48; MacDonnell, FIRSTS Magazine, September 1998 (Vol. 8, No. 9), pp. 29-35.
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2025 December 15 Rare Books Signature® Auction #6323 (go to Auction Home page)
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