[Clemens (Samuel Langhorne)] "Mark Twain".

[Clemens (Samuel Langhorne)] "Mark Twain". [Clemens (Samuel Langhorne)] "Mark Twain". Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885, first American edition, first state, half-title with illustration to verso and other illustrations in text by E. W. Kemble, portrait frontispiece of the author after the bust by sculptor Karl Gerhardt, ink ownership inscription dated 1885 to ffep, even age-toning and the odd brown spot, some marginal finger-soiling, publisher's sheep, re-backed, joints cracked. With the following first edition points: p.9, "Huck Decided" (later corrected to "decides"); p.13, "Him and another man" listed as p. 88; p.57, 11 lines up, says "with the was" (later corrected to "with the saw"); p.143, line 7 part of "b" in body broken; p.155 the final five is lacking. The frontispiece is in the second state. The title and page 283 are in the corrected states as usual (gatherings cancelled). Presented in the scarce publisher's sheep boards, rebacked. BAL 3415. New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885, first American edition, first state, half-title with illustration to verso and other illustrations in text by E. W. Kemble, portrait frontispiece of the author after the bust by sculptor Karl Gerhardt, ink ownership inscription dated 1885 to ffep, even age-toning and the odd brown spot, some marginal finger-soiling, publisher's sheep, re-backed, joints cracked

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