Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by TWAIN, Mark - 1885: Tom Sawyer's Comrade. Scene: The Mississippi Valley. Time: Forty to Fifty Years Ago. With One Hundred and Seventy-Four Illustrations.

New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn" - Ernest Hemingway First US edition, first printing, of one of the great classics of both American and children's literature.
This copy has the relevant first printing points: at p. 9 the misprint "Decided" for "Decides", at p. 13 the erroneous page reference "88" for the plate "Him and Another Man", and at p. 57, line 23, the misprint "with the was" for "with the saw". These are the only points to distinguish between the first two printings; other textual variants between copies are due to the use of multiple plates and have no relevance for priority.
This copy has the first state frontispiece with the tablecloth visible and unsigned on the finished edge of the bust, the second state cancel title leaf (as always save for advance copies), and pages 283/284 with the later state emended illustration of Uncle Silas (as always with cloth copies). These points do not have bearing on priority of issue, nor does the binding (other copies being bound in leather, and in blue cloth), with the whole first printing issued on the same day in February 1885. The UK edition was published first, in December 1884. Square octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front cover lettered and blocked in gilt and black. Housed in a custom green cloth flat-back box. Photogravure frontispiece of Karl Gerhardt's portrait bust of Clemens with tissue guard, 173 text illustrations after E. W. Kemble. Small bookseller's ticket on front pastedown (W. B. Carruth, Boston), traces of sometime removed bookplate and neat ownership inscription on front free endpaper ("Alice and [?] Davis, October 1841"). Spine ends and corners a little worn, trivial spots of rubbing to covers else cloth and gilt very bright, inner hinges cracked but firm, tiny chip to top edge of front free endpaper, contents a touch foxed, pp. 115-124 a little proud. A lovely copy. BAL 3415; Grolier, 100 American, 87; Johnson, pp. 43-50; Kevin MacDonnell, "Huck Finn among the Issue-Mongers", Firsts, vol. 8, no. 9, September 1998, pp. 28-35.