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CLEMENS, SAMUEL L. (=TWAIN, MARK) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) . New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. First Edition, with the first issue points listed below. Publisher's decorated green cloth with pale peach endpapers. 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches (22 x 17.5 cm); 399 pp., frontispiece portrait. Light rubbing to spine tips and corners, a few scuffs or small stains to boards and the spine somewhat dulled, front hinge cracked, title with a short split where tipped, short tear into frontis which also has some soiling, light spotting. With all available issue points for the first clothbound edition of the published book: The title leaf is a cancel with an 1884 copyright (2nd state); Him and another man listed at p. 88 (1st state); p. 57 printed "with the was" (1st state); p. 283 is a cancel (3rd state); p. 155 with the final 5 set below the previous (3rd state); p. 161 without signature mark; also with the new point of p. 9 with "decided" for "decides"; the frontispiece with the imprint of the Heliotype Printing Co. and the tablecloth clearly visible (1st state). BAL 3414. C