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1885 EARLY 1st ed Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain
1885 EARLY 1st ed Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain
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1885 EARLY 1st ed Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 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. This first edition meets the corrected edition points according to the BAL (see below).



Item number: #8451

Price: $750



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. First edition, early state



Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages

[9], 10-366

174 illustrations

References: BAL 3415

First edition points according to BAL:

title leaf is conjugate, with the copyright notice dated 1884

frontispiece, not table or tablecloth

p. 9 – “Huck decides”, corrected

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

p. 59, line 10 – “let” instead of “le”, corrected

p. 87 illustration captioned “Him and Another man”

p. 143 – “Col.” at top of illustration; “b” in “body in line 7 is corrected

p. 155 – large ‘5’, corrected

p. 161, no signature mark

Language: English

Binding: Green, hardcover; tight & secure

Size: ~8.75in X 7in (22cm x 17.5cm)



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