Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Tom Sawyer's Comrade
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1885.
First edition, first issue. (All three definitive points present: p. 9 has "Decided" instead of "Decides"; p. 13 lists illustration on p. 88 "Him and another Man"; p. 57 error "with the was" 11 lines up from bottom of text. Other points with no priority follow: frontispiece has table with tablecloth visible under bust, Heliotype Printing Co. imprint; last digit stamped on p. 155 page numbered "15"; correct trade issue straight fly on pg. 283. Title leaf is conjugate, copyright page dated 1884. Pg. 143 has "l" in "Col." missing. No signature mark on p. 161. BAL 3415. See MacDonnell, Kevin "Collecting Mark Twain.") 366 pp. Bound in publisher's pictorial green cloth stamped in black and gilt.
Fine. Bright gilt with hardly any rubbing and clean cloth. Negligible wear to extremities, a few strands of cloth frayed at foot. Bookseller's ticket on paste down and a brief old bookseller's description mounted on front free endpaper, describing this copy as "Fine. As new." Not having seen any new copies of this book in our lifetimes, we can only say that it does maintain a remarkable crispness to this day. A superb unsophisticated copy of the classic American novel.
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