1885 1st ed Huckleberry Finn Adventures Mark Twain Tom Sawyer FAMOUS



“the most praised and most condemned 19th-century American work of fiction” - Legacies of Genius.



“All modern literature comes from one book by Mark Twain. It’s the best book we’ve had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing since.” – Earnest Hemingway



Mark Twain’s momentous book Huckleberry Finn has been the source of arguments, discussion, and controversy since it first appeared in 1885. It has been reprinted countless times and is still considered to be one of the most popular American novels, if not the most popular.



Item number: #14416

Price: $950



TWAIN, Mark



The adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer's comrade); scene: the Mississippi Valley. Time: Forty to fifty years ago



New York: Charles L. Webster and Co., 1885. 1st edition , Early printing.



Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages

366

References: BAL 3415; Grolier 100 American, no. 87

Edition points:

frontispiece – portrait no mention of heliotype

p. 9 – “Huck Decides” (corrected from “Huck decided”)

p. 13, the Illustrations list, “Him and another Man” is correctly listed at page 87.

p. 57, 11th line from bottom – corrected to “with the saw”

p. 143 – “l” replaced on “Col.” At top of illustration; “b” in “body” in line 7 is fixed

p. 155 – final ‘5’ enlarged

p. 161, no signature mark

thus, not a first printing of this first edition

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure

Size: ~8.75in X 7in (22.5cm x 18cm)



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