1885 Mark Twain 1st/1st Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer Mississippi

1885 Mark Twain 1^st/1^st Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer Mississippi

“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 American printing meets the first edition points according to the BAL (see below).

Item number: #26837

Price: $2500

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. First printing

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • 366
• References: BAL 3415; Grolier 100 American, no. 87
• Edition points:
  • title leaf is conjugate, with the copyright notice dated 1884
  • frontispiece – portrait has imprint of Heliotype Printing Co and tablecloth visible – first state point
  • 9 – “Huck Decided” (later corrected to “Huck decides”) – first state point
  • 13, the Illustrations list, “Him and another Man” is incorrectly listed at page 88. – first state point
  • 57, 11^th line from bottom – “with the was” (uncorrected) – first state point
  • 87 illustration captioned “Him and Another man” – first state point
  • 143 – “l” missing from “Col.” At top of illustration; “b” in “body” in line 7 is broken – first state point
  • 155 – final ‘5’ present but imperfect, early state point
  • 161, no signature mark – first state point
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
  • Decorative green cloth
• Size: ~8.75in X 7.25in (22cm x 18cm)

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