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 green gilt-decorated pictorial cloth (some slight wear at ends of spine and at corners, generally fresh and bright). Provenance: Charles Cobb Walker (bookplate). "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; third state of pagination on folio 155 (the final five present and larger); the title leaf is a cancel with 1884 copyright date; third state of p. 283; the frontispiece is in first state. BAL 3415; Grolier American 87; Johnson, pp. 43-50.
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 green gilt-decorated pictorial cloth (some slight wear at ends of spine and at corners, generally fresh and bright). Provenance: Charles Cobb Walker (bookplate). "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; third state of pagination on folio 155 (the final five present and larger); the title leaf is a cancel with 1884 copyright date; third state of p. 283; the frontispiece is in first state. BAL 3415; Grolier American 87; Johnson, pp. 43-50.
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