CLEMENS, SAMUEL L. ("Mark Twain"). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York, 1885. Illustrated by E.W. Kemble. Small 4to, blue morocco, covers with double gilt fillet, FRONT COVER SET WITH AN OVAL PORTAIT MINIATURE OF CLEMENS, framed with a border of gilt floral tools, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in two compartments, a repeated gilt-tooled ornamental panel in the rest, board edges and turn-ins gilt-tooled, blue watered silk doublures and free endpages, g.e., ORIGINAL PICTORIAL BLUE CLOTH COVERS bound-in at rear, stamp-signed by the binders on the upper turn-in: "Bound by Bayntun (Riviere), Bath, England," front cover and spine somewhat faded; silk endpages a little faded, front hinge cracked with first few pages loose, Explanatory leaf detached and chipped at edges, frontispiece rubbed and chipped along fore-margin; cloth slipcase. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION IN THE RARER BLUE CLOTH BINDING, with the early issue points: "was" for "saw" on p. 57, the "Him and another Man" plate listed as being on p. 88; state "1(2?)" of pagination on folio 155 with the final "5" lacking; the title-leaf a cancel; state 3 of p. 283 (on a stub); the frontispiece in first state; the final leaf blank. BAL 3415; Johnson Clemens , pp. 43-50; Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 75-76; Grolier American 87.
CLEMENS, SAMUEL L. ("Mark Twain"). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York, 1885. Illustrated by E.W. Kemble. Small 4to, blue morocco, covers with double gilt fillet, FRONT COVER SET WITH AN OVAL PORTAIT MINIATURE OF CLEMENS, framed with a border of gilt floral tools, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in two compartments, a repeated gilt-tooled ornamental panel in the rest, board edges and turn-ins gilt-tooled, blue watered silk doublures and free endpages, g.e., ORIGINAL PICTORIAL BLUE CLOTH COVERS bound-in at rear, stamp-signed by the binders on the upper turn-in: "Bound by Bayntun (Riviere), Bath, England," front cover and spine somewhat faded; silk endpages a little faded, front hinge cracked with first few pages loose, Explanatory leaf detached and chipped at edges, frontispiece rubbed and chipped along fore-margin; cloth slipcase. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION IN THE RARER BLUE CLOTH BINDING, with the early issue points: "was" for "saw" on p. 57, the "Him and another Man" plate listed as being on p. 88; state "1(2?)" of pagination on folio 155 with the final "5" lacking; the title-leaf a cancel; state 3 of p. 283 (on a stub); the frontispiece in first state; the final leaf blank. BAL 3415; Johnson Clemens , pp. 43-50; Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 75-76; Grolier American 87.
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