CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (1835-1910). Adventures of Hucklebery Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) . New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. Small 4 o (216 x 165 mm). Lithographic frontispiece by E.W. Kemble, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt illustrations in text. Original pictorial BLUE cloth, blocked and lettered in gilt and black (extremities lightly rubbed); quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance : Estelle Doheny (paper bookplate). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, with early issue points: frontispiece portrait in state 1, title in state 3, p.13 in state 1, p.57 in state 1, p.283 in state 3, p.155 in state 1. BAL 3415; Grolier American 87; Johnson/ Clemens , pp.43-50; Johnson High Spots 23; Peter Parley to Penrod , pp.75-76. AN EXTREMELY FINE, VERY BRIGHT COPY IN THE RARER BLUE CLOTH.
CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (1835-1910). Adventures of Hucklebery Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) . New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. Small 4 o (216 x 165 mm). Lithographic frontispiece by E.W. Kemble, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt illustrations in text. Original pictorial BLUE cloth, blocked and lettered in gilt and black (extremities lightly rubbed); quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance : Estelle Doheny (paper bookplate). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, with early issue points: frontispiece portrait in state 1, title in state 3, p.13 in state 1, p.57 in state 1, p.283 in state 3, p.155 in state 1. BAL 3415; Grolier American 87; Johnson/ Clemens , pp.43-50; Johnson High Spots 23; Peter Parley to Penrod , pp.75-76. AN EXTREMELY FINE, VERY BRIGHT COPY IN THE RARER BLUE CLOTH.
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