CLEMENS, SAMUEL L. | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885

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CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885 

8vo (8 3/8 x 6 1/2 in; 213 x 165 mm). Frontispiece and 173 illustrations by E. W. Kemble, photogravure plate of a portrait bust of Clemens by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 1), title-leaf is a cancel with copyright notice on verso dated 1884, (additional BAL issue points: page [13], state 1; page 57, state 1; leaf 283, state 3; page 155, state 1); occasional spotting, particularly to frontispiece. Publisher's pictorial green cloth, stamped in black and gilt with portrait of Huckleberry Finn, light peach endpapers; slight rubbing to extremities, head-, and foot-pieces, some minor staining. 

First American edition, early issue of this classic American novel.

REFERENCE:

BAL 3415; Grolier, American 87; Johnson, pp. 111

PROVENANCE:

John C. Gerber (bookplate)