The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)

by TWAIN, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens]

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Book description: New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. SCARCE in publisher's sheepskin binding with red and black title labels to repaired spine. Small bookseller's label to paste down, owner's name neatly written in ink and dated May 1885 to first free eps; corners lightly rubbed. In all a superb copy. With 174 illustrations. EARLIEST possible ISSUE, with all first issue points present, such as: the portrait frontispiece has the scarf; page <13>: the illustration captioned &#34;Him and another Man&#34; listed at p. 88; the eleventh line from the bottom of p. 57 reads &#34;...with the was...&#34;; the rare &#34;bulging fly&#34; plate at p. 283; the final &#34;5&#34; lacking at p. 155 (thus 15); no signature mark &#34;11&#34; at p. 161. The only point remaining, &#34;Copyright 1884&#34;, has never been seen in a published copy of the book. Twain was a humorist, but this picture of Mississippi life is profoundly moral and still incredibly influential. This tale of a boy's picaresque raft journey down river conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. Beneath Huck's exploits, however, are more serious undercurrents of slavery and adult control, which threaten his deep and enduring friendship with the runaway slave Jim.. Blanck 3415. Listed in The Observer's All-Time 100 Best Novels [2003]. BMC No261, p90-93.

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