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TWAIN, MARK.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Lithographic frontispiece
and text illustrations by E.W. Kemble, photographic portrait (BAL state 1, with the table-
cloth visible) by Karl Gerhardt. Small 4to, publisher’s green pictorial cloth stamped in black
and gilt, trace of rubbing to spine tips and corners; binding tight, internally clean,
unmarked and free from usual foxing.
New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885
[6,000/9,000]
FIRST EDITION IN THE GREEN CLOTH
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A SUPERLATIVE COPY OF TWAIN
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S MASTER
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PIECE
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“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
as good since” (Ernest Hemingway, The Green Hills of Africa). With early issue points: p.
[13] state 1 (“Him and another man”); p.57 state 1 (“was” for “saw” line 23); p. 155 state
3 (with the final “5” extending below the line); and p. 283 state 3. BAL 3415; Peter Parley
to Penrod, pp. 75-76.
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TWAIN, MARK.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Frontispiece and text
illustrations by E.W. Kemble, photogravure plate of a portrait bust by Karl Gerhardt (BAL
state 2), title-leaf is a cancel with copyright notice on verso dated 1884 (BAL state 2). 8vo,
publisher’s green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black, spine tips and corners rubbed,
few scattered marks to covers; scattered foxing internally, heaviest to early and last signa-
tures, repaired tears on first blank and half-title/frontispiece leaf, textblock still sound in
binding; small bookplate on front pastedown.
New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885
[1,200/1,800]
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION
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With BAL first state points: page [13] with illustration caption
incorrect (“88”), page 57 reads “with the was”, page 155 lacking final 5; and with third state
point for page 283 (leaf is a cancel, with vertical line on trousers). BAL 3415; Peter Parley to
Penrod pp. 75-76.
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