Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)

by TWAIN, Mark

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Book desription: New York, Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. First Publisher's Deluxe Edition and the only edition to be found with both Silas' 'bulging fly' plate on page 283 and the required early issue points. Publisher's half dark brown morocco, with gilt ruled marbled boards. Gilt titling and decoration to spine. Some light edgewear and scuffing, but purely superficial, expertly rebacked. A tight, clean and very distinguished copy in this scarce state. Marbled endpapers, with skillful repair to inner gutter of ffep, marbled page edges. Internally clean save for spotting to tissue guard of portrait frontispiece. Issue points: p.13: the illustration captioned "Him and another Man" is listed, wrongly, as at p.88; p.57: the eleventh line from the bottom reads: "...with the was..."; p.155: with the final five lacking; p.161: lacks the signature mark 11 at the bottom of the page. In addition, the portrait frontispiece has the tablecloth, or scarf, clearly visible. p.283: of course the all important first state plate depicting an old bespectacled gentleman with a discernable bulge in the front of his trousers. This accidental augmentation of the gentleman's anatomy was later removed on the grounds that bigotry and prejudice (that of the time, not of Twain, who even when he was being charitable was being incisive and cynical) are perfectly acceptable, but possessing genitals is not. When cataloguing books like this I always find it comforting to think how much things have changed. A very rare, and important book, albeit it for a complicated and often contradictory number of reasons. Illustrated throughout. Blanck [3415]. BMC No261, p90-93.

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