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

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

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The adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer's comrade); scene: the Mississippi Valley. Time: Forty to fifty years ago hardcover; tight and secure - 1885

by TWAIN, Mark

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1885 Mark Twain 1st/1st 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: #27063

Price: $2950

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

o 366

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

· Edition points:

o title leaf is conjugate, with the copyright notice dated 1884

o frontispiece – portrait has imprint of Heliotype Printing Co and tablecloth visible – first state point

o p. 9 – "Huck Decided" (later corrected to "Huck decides") – first state point

o p. 13, the Illustrations list, "Him and another Man" is incorrectly listed at page 88. – first state point

o p. 57, 11th line from bottom – "with the was" (uncorrected) – first state point

o p. 87 illustration captioned "Him and Another man" - first state point

o p. 143 – "l" missing from "Col." At top of illustration; "b" in "body" in line 7 is broken – first state point

o p. 155 – final '5' present but imperfect, early state point

o p. 161, no signature mark – first state point

· Language: English

· Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure

o Decorative green cloth

· Size: ~8.75in X 7in (22cm x 17.5cm)

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About this book

Commonly named among the Great American novels, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain, is generally regarded as the sequel to his earlier novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; however, in Huckleberry Finn, Twain focused increasingly on the institution of slavery and the South. Narrated by Huckleberry “Huck” Finn in Southern antebellum vernacular, the novel gives vivid descriptions of people and daily life along the Mississippi River while following the adventure of Huck and a runaway slave, Jim, rafting their way to freedom.

First Edition Identification

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was first published on December 10, 1884 by Chatto & Windus in London and by Dawson Brothers in Montreal. 
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