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Auction archive: Lot number 15

CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain") Adventures of Huckl...

Estimate
US$18,000 - US$24,000
Price realised:
US$18,750
Auction archive: Lot number 15

CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain") Adventures of Huckl...

Estimate
US$18,000 - US$24,000
Price realised:
US$18,750
Beschreibung:

CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain"). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) . New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.
CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain"). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) . New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. Square 8 o . Lithographic frontispiece by E.W. Kemble, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 1), illustrations in text. Original blue gilt-decorated pictorial cloth (very minor rubbing to spine extremities, otherwise very fine and bright); blue morocco folding case. Provenance : Carl Battger (signature on front free endpaper). "ALL MODERN AMERICAN LITERATURE COMES FROM ONE BOOK BY MARK TWAIN CALLED HUCKLEBERRY FINN "--Ernest Hemingway in The Green Hills of Africa . FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, EARLY STATE, with early issue points: first state of p. 57 with "was" for "saw"; first state of the "Him and Another Man" plate listed as being on p. 88; first state of pagination on folio 155 (the final five lacking); the title leaf is a cancel with 1884 copyright date; third state of p. 283; the frontispiece is in first state. In addition, the present copy contains leaf 23/8, which Blanck states he has never seen in a copy containing all first issue points. He states, however, that the leaf is found in publisher's leather-bound copies. BAL 3415; Grolier American 87; Johnson, pp. 43-50. A VERY FINE COPY IN THE SCARCER BLUE CLOTH.

Auction archive: Lot number 15
Auction:
Datum:
4 Dec 2009
Auction house:
Christie's
4 December 2009, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain"). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) . New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.
CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain"). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) . New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. Square 8 o . Lithographic frontispiece by E.W. Kemble, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 1), illustrations in text. Original blue gilt-decorated pictorial cloth (very minor rubbing to spine extremities, otherwise very fine and bright); blue morocco folding case. Provenance : Carl Battger (signature on front free endpaper). "ALL MODERN AMERICAN LITERATURE COMES FROM ONE BOOK BY MARK TWAIN CALLED HUCKLEBERRY FINN "--Ernest Hemingway in The Green Hills of Africa . FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, EARLY STATE, with early issue points: first state of p. 57 with "was" for "saw"; first state of the "Him and Another Man" plate listed as being on p. 88; first state of pagination on folio 155 (the final five lacking); the title leaf is a cancel with 1884 copyright date; third state of p. 283; the frontispiece is in first state. In addition, the present copy contains leaf 23/8, which Blanck states he has never seen in a copy containing all first issue points. He states, however, that the leaf is found in publisher's leather-bound copies. BAL 3415; Grolier American 87; Johnson, pp. 43-50. A VERY FINE COPY IN THE SCARCER BLUE CLOTH.

Auction archive: Lot number 15
Auction:
Datum:
4 Dec 2009
Auction house:
Christie's
4 December 2009, New York, Rockefeller Center
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